Resources

This booklet from Dementia Australia SA provides information about gardening and dementia, including dementia and garden environments, gardens that heal, garden implementation process, dementia-specific gardens, and basic garden design ideas.

This booklet from Dementia Australia features information, tips and strategies on staying connected to people living with dementia. 

This booklet from Dementia Australia Victoria describes how palliative care practices could be made more appropriate for person's living with dementia.

This booklet from Dementia Australia, Down Syndrome Australia and the Centre for Developmental Disability Health provides information regarding Alzheimer's disease and down syndrome, including co-occurrence, diagnosis, and support.

This companion guide from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre provides more accessible information and recommendations outlined in the clinical practice guidelines.

This booklet was distributed in Australia by the Dementia Centre. The author hopes 'this booklet will give the reader ideas on how to make the lives of people with dementia more pleasant, allowing them to be more socially included and no longer feeling alone' (*link will take you to a resource library, please scroll through to download this resource).

The aim of this booklet from the University of Wollongong is to assist a person with dementia in deciding when to stop driving after receiving a diagnosis of dementia. It is hoped that early planning for retirement from driving will avoid the need to stop suddenly in the future.

This booklet from the Dementia Centre and HammondCare has been developed for people who are caring for or supporting a Deaf/deaf person living with dementia. It aims to provide an introduction to dementia and changes in behaviours that a person may experience living with the condition.

This booklet from the Dementia Centre and HammondCare has been developed  for family and friends who are supporting a deaf person with dementia. It can help to better understand and identify changes in behaviours.

This booklet from dementia Australia features information, tips and strategies on walking safely and what your community can do to help if you become lost or disoriented.