Resources

This helpsheet from Dementia Support Australia and LGBTIQ+ Health Australia contains information for care staff to support both the sexual and intimacy needs of an LGBTI person with dementia and understand why changes in behaviour may occur if these needs are not being met.

The supported Decision-Making Help Sheet from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre provides an introduction to supported decision-making (available in English, Greek, Simplified Chinese, and Italian).

The Strategic Roadmap for Dementia Research and Translation guides the dementia research sector in meeting the urgent challenge that dementia presents to Australia’s health, economy and society. This resource is from the NHMRC National Institute for Dementia Research.

This sheet from the National Institute for Dementia Research provides guidance to government, researchers, industry and philanthropy on Australia's dementia research strategy and activity in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities over the longer term.

Dementia can have an impact on a person’s ability to communicate verbally. This sheet from Alzheimer's WA provides information regarding communicating and engaging with a person with dementia, stigma, what not to do, and life story books.

This helpsheet from Dementia Support Australia provides practical strategies to try when responding to common medication difficulties by understanding the person with dementia and their situation.

This helpsheet from Dementia Support Australia provides examples of common delusions and hallucinations that may be experienced by the person with dementia and how to respond to them.

The pandemic has resulted in changes to our daily lives. This helpsheet from Dementia Support Australia provides simple steps to build the resilience of people in care.

This infographic from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care is targeted at reducing inappropriate use of antipsychotics. It summarises why this is such an important issue for people with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia across multiple healthcare settings.

These quick tips from Dementia Support Australia look at some ways care staff can reduce the risk of infection while keeping the person with dementia, and staff, safe while maintaining wellbeing.