Resources

This booklet from the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration has been written to help you understand why it is important for you to support people with dementia to make everyday decisions. There are practical examples in this booklet of how to do this.

This fact sheet from the Australian Association of Gerontology presents case studies on reablement approaches.

This resource from the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre and the Queensland University of Technology is designed to help you in your decision-making about respite by providing you with information from the carer’s perspective. In here you will find stories about carers and their experiences of respite care, as well as advice and tips to help you make the most of your respite experience.

This booklet from Dementia Australia SA provides information about gardening and dementia, including dementia and garden environments, gardens that heal, garden implementation process, dementia-specific gardens, and basic garden design ideas.

This booklet from Dementia Australia features information, tips and strategies on staying connected to people living with dementia. 

This booklet from Dementia Australia Victoria describes how palliative care practices could be made more appropriate for person's living with dementia.

This booklet from Dementia Australia, Down Syndrome Australia and the Centre for Developmental Disability Health provides information regarding Alzheimer's disease and down syndrome, including co-occurrence, diagnosis, and support.

This companion guide from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre provides more accessible information and recommendations outlined in the clinical practice guidelines.

This booklet was distributed in Australia by the Dementia Centre. The author hopes 'this booklet will give the reader ideas on how to make the lives of people with dementia more pleasant, allowing them to be more socially included and no longer feeling alone' (*link will take you to a resource library, please scroll through to download this resource).

The aim of this booklet from the University of Wollongong is to assist a person with dementia in deciding when to stop driving after receiving a diagnosis of dementia. It is hoped that early planning for retirement from driving will avoid the need to stop suddenly in the future.