Resources
Browse resources created and collated by ARIIA as a trusted, evidence-based guide to supporting innovation across the aged care sector.
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Working with the Stolen Generations: Understanding trauma
A fact sheet from the Healing Foundation providing information for aged care staff to improve services for Stolen Generations survivors.
Older adults opening up about anxiety and depression
For some older people, talking about personal matters does not come easy. This sheet from Beyond Blue provides tips and strategies for older people with mental health concerns to share how they are feelings with people who may support them.
Having the conversation with older people about anxiety and depression
This information sheet from Beyond Blue provides tips and strategies for opening up a conversation with an older person experiencing anxiety, depression, or not coping.
Care planning checklist
This checklist from the Department of Health and Aged Care serves as a guide for service providers to carry out an effective patient centred and goal oriented care plan.
Looking after yourself while looking after someone with dementia
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.
Living with dementia
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.
LGBTI fact sheets
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.
Lewy body disease information for home care workers
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.
Australian Association of Gerontology Fact Sheet 3: Australian approaches to reablement in residential aged care
This fact sheet provides a summary of current reablement approaches used for the Australian Government’s residential aged care program.
Australian Association of Gerontology Fact Sheet 2: Australian approaches to reablement in the home support and care program
This fact sheet provides a summary of current reablement approaches for the Government’s Home Support and Care Program which comprises the Commonwealth Home Support Program, the Continuity of Support Program, and Home Care Packages Program.