Resources

This guide from the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, the Queensland University of Technology, the University of New South Wales, and HammondCare has information about the meaning of wellness and many handy strategies to help you improve your wellness and increase your resilience.

Information from NPS MedicineWise regarding advance care planning including decision making, preventing and helping with distress, treating the cognitive symptoms of dementia, other conditions with dementia, good medicines management, questions to ask your doctor, and support and care.

Planning ahead with people who have dementia is important. At some point, they will no longer be able to make informed decisions – and that’s where a trusted carer can step in to help. This video is from Dementia Australia. (3 min)

In this video from NPS MedicineWise, Theresa Flavin, who has been diagnosed with dementia, shares her story and provides a unique insight into living with dementia and the impact of psychotropic medicines. (12 min)

This information from Alzheimer's WA is for people living with dementia regarding living well with dementia, the importance of staying connected, accepting support, processing the diagnosis, safety and independence, accessing support, and validating and acknowledging death.

This webpage and video from Alzheimer's WA provides information about living well with dementia, including how life may change after diagnosis, and how to promote well-being and quality of life.

This 2019 professional development article from the Australian Journal of General Practice (AJGP) discusses reablement, restorative care and rehabilitation providing a function-focused approach to address the needs of older people with functional decline.

There is a need for greater, targeted support for LGBTI people with dementia from all care contexts, requiring service providers to be better informed in the additional considerations relevant to the management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in this group. The Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration provides multiple resources about the LGBTQIA+ community.

This booklet has been developed by HammondCare for aged care staff who are caring for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people.

This sheet from Dementia Australia is designed to give you some basic information about Lewy body disease and its associated disorders. It will help you understand what is happening in the home that you are visiting. It also gives you some tips so that you can assist both the client and their carer.