Resources

This template from the Department of Health and Aged Care steps out guidance on how to incrementally review, plan and deploy improvements within your Commonwealth Home Support Programme organisation.

This online forum is focused on supporting you and your colleagues to share ideas, best practice and practical examples to embed wellness and reablement into your everyday service delivery practices.

This tool from the Department of Health and Aged Care provides a process to systematically identify and capture change activities through a change management template and provides examples to help get started.

If you are out in public, you may need to let other people (for example the bus driver, cafe staff or receptionist) know that you, or the person you support, has dementia. This card from Forward with Dementia discretely alerts people that you may require their help and support.

This booklet from the Queensland University of Technology is designed for you to obtain as much information as possible relating to your family member’s care needs, so that the care provided by you at home can be continued as closely as possible by others.

This tool from the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration helps a carer keep an up-to-date source of information that can help hospital staff tailor care for your loved one. It is designed on the principles of person-centred care, which values each person as an individual.

The Dementia Training Australia Environment Activity Cards aim to spark conversations among staff, residents and visitors about residential aged care and retirement living buildings.

This tool provides access to information about dementia for primary health care professionals. Sections include awareness and recognition of symptoms, GP assessment and management, practice nurse assessment and care planning, medicolegal issues, medication, ongoing management and care, palliative and end-of-life care, and family support.

People diagnosed with dementia, their care partners, and family and friends can find it hard to come to terms with a dementia diagnosis This tool from Queensland Health provides an algorithm to guide the care GPs provide to a person once they have received a diagnosis of dementia.

A Life Story book can be used as a tool to help facilitate person-centred care. It enables caregivers to engage and communicate with a person living with dementia, understand their unique needs, and provide meaningful interaction based on the person’s likes and dislikes and personal history. This resource is from Alzheimer's WA.