Resources

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.

In collaboration with Dementia Training Australia, the Let’s CHAT (Community Health Approaches To) Dementia Team bring you a six-part series of webinars, which will give an overview of cognitive impairment and dementia care.

In this video from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, carers Kathy Williams and Imelda Gilmore speak about how knowing the person’s preferences and what is important to them helps in decision making about future lifestyle, care, and health decisions. (3 min)

Keynote address by Kate Swaffer, Chair, CEO & Co-founder Dementia Alliance International in a webinar by the Older Persons Advocacy Network. (16 min)

This presentation by Kate Swaffer was part of the Dementia Partnership Project Inaugural WA Community Services Symposium. (26 min)

In this video from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, Karine talks about some of her experiences caring for her husband Col, describing how she provided support for decision-making from a care-partner’s perspective. (5 min)

In this video from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, Jeanette and Ray talk about their experiences in adjusting to a diagnosis of dementia, and making decisions together as a couple. (4 min)

Jason Burton discusses respite models and cottage respite at the Dementia Partnership Project Inaugural WA Community Services Symposium. (16 min)