Resources

This resource from Dementia Support Australia is to help you understand behavioural support, what a good behaviour support plan looks like, provide a guide to creating a good behaviour support plan, and how to play your part in bringing behaviour support plans to life.

These sections from Forward with Dementia contain information, tools and helpful strategies used by people with dementia.

This webpage from Alzheimer's WA provides practical advice about the experience of a loved one having/being diagnosed with dementia, and information about available support.

A collection of stories from people living with dementia and/or carers.

Planning ahead is thinking about your future, and putting things in place so that your choices will be known and acted on if you cannot express these choices yourself later in life. Start2Talk provides resources to encourage conversations about care planning.

Dementia causes a progressive decline in a person’s functioning and affects a person’s thinking, behaviour and ability to perform everyday tasks. This webpage from the BetterHealth Channel provides an overview of services to support people with dementia and their carers.

People with dementia often feel shocked and numb when told their diagnosis. These sections from Forward with Dementia contain information, tools and helpful strategies used by people with dementia.

Dementia is becoming better recognised as a terminal condition for which palliative care is appropriate and beneficial. This webpage from palliAGED provides information about palliative care in dementia care.

This webpage from healthdirect provides some background and information about respite care.

Information from myagedcare regarding support, the experience of living with dementia, working with health professionals, and making financial and legal decisions.