Resources

This platform provides education and training on three key areas - dementia care, recognising and providing a palliative response to care, oral hygiene and links to health and well-being.

Vascular dementia is the second most common cause of dementia after Alzheimer's disease. This webpage from Dementia Australia provides information about vascular dementia, risk factors, diagnosis, progression, treatment, and possible causes.

This webinar from Dementia Training Australia explores the benefits of activity engagement for people with dementia, and principles for selecting and individually tailoring activities (*please note you must be logged in as a Dementia Training Australia member (free) to watch video presentations and access resources).

This help sheet from LGBTIQ+ Health Australia and Dementia Support Australia provides information and tips for care staff to better understand the life events the LGBTI person with dementia may have experienced and enable tailored care and support.

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

This resource from Dementia Support Australia is to help you understand behavioural support, what a good behaviour support plan looks like, provide a guide to creating a good behaviour support plan, and how to play your part in bringing behaviour support plans to life.

In this course from Dementia Training Australia, you will increase your knowledge of caring for a person experiencing dementia-related responsive behaviours and explore how people with dementia may express their needs through behaviour, rather than words.

This helpsheet from Dementia Support Australia provides guidance on using validation to communicate an understanding of the emotional state of the person with living dementia.

This online course from the University of Tasmania provides knowledge designed to maximise quality of life across the trajectory of dementia for people with the condition, their families and caregivers.

Information from Alzheimer's WA regarding understanding the impact of dementia, the lived experience, labelling behaviour, and common changes.