Resources

The good practice guide from the Department of Social Services supports wellness, reablement and restorative care approaches in home care services, provides information about what good practice looks like in home care, and discusses how workers can successfully adopt recommended approaches.

This resource from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare is an abridged version of Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best practice guidelines for Australian residential aged care facilities (2009).

A resource designed to support services to implement effective restorative care and reablement for people living at home with dementia.

The Indigenous Aged Care Design Guide from Dementia Training Australia and Health Habitat is a resource to assist in the design, construction, ongoing assessment and maintenance of aged care facilities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This guide from Dementia Training Australia aims to further enhance occupational therapy clinical practice provided to people living with dementia and their care partners.

These guidelines from the Western Australia Centre for Health and Ageing have been provided to ensure that people with dementia who live in remote communities are correctly diagnosed and receive the services that they, and their families, require.

This guideline from the University of Sydney, the NHMRC Partnership Centre, and Bruyère Research Institute aims to provide guidance on who is suitable to continue and who is suitable to trial deprescribing (likely to benefit or not experience harm from withdrawal) of certain medications (ChEIs and/or memantine).

The Framework from the Government of Western Australia Department of Health offers health service providers and administrators a guide to planning, developing and implementing local processes and solutions to address the needs of people with dementia.

These guidelines from Dementia Australia promote the consistent use of appropriate, inclusive and non-stigmatising language when talking or writing about dementia and people living with dementia.

This paper from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety provides a high-level introduction to dementia, including its nature, prevalence in Australia, and research about how to best care for people living with dementia.