Resources

This webpage from healthdirect provides some background and information about respite care.

Dementia has a significant impact on the lives of people diagnosed with dementia, their carers and families. These guidelines from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre provide recommendations to health and aged care staff to apply in their workplaces.

The pandemic has resulted in changes to our daily lives. This helpsheet from Dementia Support Australia provides simple steps to build the resilience of people in care.

This infographic from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care is targeted at reducing inappropriate use of antipsychotics. It summarises why this is such an important issue for people with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia across multiple healthcare settings.

In this course from Dementia Training Australia, you will explore the most up-to-date advice on dementia in the General Practice setting. Various health professionals share their knowledge, experience and insights in dementia research, education and care.

You are in control of who you tell about your dementia, when you tell them, and how (and how much) you tell. This worksheet from Forward with Dementia helps you figure out how and when to share your diagnosis with family and friends.

In this course from Dementia Training Australia, you will learn how to look, listen and investigate pain in people living with dementia who are unable to verbalise their discomfort or pain.

This report from the Deeble Institute outlines the rights and care needs of people living with dementia, and cultural attitudes/stigma toward dementia, describes interventions to address dementia-related cognitive, physical and functional decline and highlights how and why reablement interventions can and should be applied in dementia care.

This webinar from Dementia Training Australia will provide GPs and health professionals with a structured approach to assessment of behaviours and their management (*please note you must be logged in as a Dementia Training Australia member (free) to watch video presentations and access resources). (1 h 2 m)

A structured work-up of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia is vital to its management. The focus of this chapter is on behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.