Resources

Information from Dementia Australia about dementia, advance care planning, symptom management, personal comfort measures, supporting diverse groups of people, family carers, terminal care, grief and behavioural support.

This sheet from Dementia Australia provides information about appropriate assessment and management of pain in people with dementia.

This video from NSW Trustee & Guardian covers how Advance Care Planning helps you to plan for future medical care and involves thinking about your values and beliefs and your wishes about what medical care you would like to have if you cannot make your own decision. (15 min)

In this module from Dementia Training Australia, you will learn how to assess what is meaningful to the individual person with dementia and how engagement in such activities can reduce responsive behaviours and improve mood.

Each day there are many things that provide us with purpose and pleasure. For a person with dementia, the need for a good quality of life is not diminished. This webpage from Dementia Australia provides guidance for planning appropriate activities for people living with dementia.

This report from Dementia Australia describes recommendations from people living with dementia and their families/carers regarding the new aged care quality standards.

This sheet from NPS MedicineWise outlines information about some conditions commonly experienced by people living with dementia, to help enable them and their family, friends and carers to be involved in decisions about management and support for these conditions.

This video from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre provides an overview of what a home-like, or clustered model of aged care looks like and how it benefits residents. (1 min)

This symposium, hosted by the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration and Dementia Training Australia, reflects on progress since the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and safety, and added challenges of COVID-19 (*please note you must be logged in as a Dementia Training Australia member (free) to watch video presentations and access resources). (5 h)  

This paper from Dementia Australia describes how the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted/be impacting the physical, social, and mental well-being of people living with dementia, and their families/carers.