Resources

This video from NSW Trustee & Guardian covers how Advance Care Planning helps you to plan for future medical care and involves thinking about your values and beliefs and your wishes about what medical care you would like to have if you cannot make your own decision. (15 min)

This video from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre provides an overview of what a home-like, or clustered model of aged care looks like and how it benefits residents. (1 min)

HammondCare’s Music Engagement Project aims to empower residents living with dementia through the experience of music. This video is about music engagement for people living with dementia. (3 min)

Informational video about medication choices from the Older Persons Advocacy Network. Available in 15 languages (Chinese traditional, Chinese simplified, Croatian, Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, German, Maltese, Macedonian, Polish, Tagalog, Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese). (6 min)

In this video from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, pharmacist and researcher Dr Emily Reeve speaks about the importance of deprescribing medications, particularly as people age and accumulate multiple medication prescriptions. She talks about tools and guides to be developed to support clinicians in undertaking and understanding the process. (6 min)

In this series of videos from NPS MedicineWise, Professor Lynn Chenoweth from the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing at the University of New South Wales discusses the theories behind changed behaviours seen in dementia and describes possible models for assessment and techniques for management, including real-world examples.