Resources

A Life Story book can be used as a tool to help facilitate person-centred care. It enables caregivers to engage and communicate with a person living with dementia, understand their unique needs, and provide meaningful interaction based on the person’s likes and dislikes and personal history. This resource is from Alzheimer's WA.

Information sheet from Dementia Australia regarding the symptoms of COVID-19.

This video from the Empowered Project provides perspectives about changed behaviour in dementia from professionals and family members of people living with dementia.

This helpsheet from Dementia Support Australia looks at four common difficulties with using the toilet for people with dementia — and suggests ideas to offer support.

The posters from Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration and the Dementia Behaviour Management Advisory Service, Northern Territory provide clinicians and health professionals working with Aboriginal communities in remote areas with a hard copy resource that can be left in the community after the visit.

In this course from Dementia Training Australia, you will explore how dementia impacts the physiology of the brain and its effects on an individual’s ability to perform activities of daily living.

This module from Dementia Training Australia provides a brief overview of person-centred care and three theoretical models to help put the focus on the person with dementia.

These sections from Forward with Dementia contain information, tools and helpful strategies used by people with dementia.

In this webinar from the Older Persons Advocacy Network, the panel covers how older people can exercise their rights, and what everyone can do to empower older people. (1h 1m)

This short film from Dementia Australia has been produced to provide information to carers of people living with dementia in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. The film features Birpai Elder, Uncle Bill O'Brien, discussing his experience of caring for his mother who had dementia. (4 min)