Resources

This webpage from the BetterHealth Channel provides information regarding talking to your doctor about emotional changes, aggression, catastrophic reactions, intimacy and sexuality, support for carers, and where to get help.

This webpage from the BetterHealth Channel provides information regarding loss of appetite, overeating or insatiable appetite, sweet cravings, mouth, chewing and swallowing problems, problems eating at the table, other meal-time strategies, support for family and caregivers, and where to get help.

This webpage from the BetterHealth Channel provides information regarding planning ahead for dementia care, decisions about medical treatment for dementia, getting help with decisions about medical treatment, money matters, enduring power of attorney, wills, guardianship and administration, and where to get help.

This webpage from the BetterHealth Channel provides information regarding laws about driving and dementia, reactions of people when they must stop driving, signs that driving ability is impacted, talking to a person about driving, support for families and carers, travelling with a person with dementia as a passenger, and where to get help.

A carer’s role will change once a person with dementia is in residential care. This webpage from the BetterHealth Channel provides information regarding how visiting is important to both resident and carer, making visits more enjoyable, possible outings, visiting in the later stages, parting, wanting to go home, things to try, support groups, and where to get help.

This webpage from the BetterHealth Channel provides information regarding causes of incontinence in people with dementia, information to tell the doctor, caring for someone with incontinence, suggestions for managing incontinence, respecting privacy, and where to get help.

This webpage from the BetterHealth Channel provides information on communication changes which may occur with dementia, suggestions for communicating with a person with dementia, what not to do, therapies, and communication strategies.

This webpage from the BetterHealth Channel provides information about behaviour changes which may be experienced by someone living with dementia.

This Australian Institute of Health and Welfare webpage provides an overview of dementia prevalence, risk factors, treatment and management, and aged care.

Dementia is a condition that affects a person’s thinking, their behaviour and ability to perform everyday tasks. This healthdirect webpage provides information about dementia, diagnosis, management, and caring.