Resources

This webpage provides information about medicines and dementia, including resources, distress, strategies to manage distress, medicines to manage distress symptoms, treatment, decision-making rights, other conditions with dementia, medicines-related problems for people with dementia, and tips for good medicine management (includes video).

This information sheet from NPS MedicineWise outlines the reasons for or causes of distress in people with dementia and suggests strategies to prevent or eliminate these underlying factors.

This booklet from the Older Persons Advocacy Network equips you with the ability to have an informed and active role in your decisions about what medications you take. Available in 15 languages (Chinese traditional, Chinese simplified, Croatian, Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, German, Maltese, Macedonian, Polish, Tagalog, Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese).

This helpsheet from Dementia Support Australia provides information that may help keep a person living with dementia comfortable, and increase their quality of life, as they approach the end of life.

In this series of videos from NPS MedicineWise, Professor Lynn Chenoweth from the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing at the University of New South Wales discusses the theories behind changed behaviours seen in dementia and describes possible models for assessment and techniques for management, including real-world examples.

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

A Better Visit is a free-to-download app from Dementia Australia featuring a range of two-player games designed to enhance communication and facilitate positive social interactions between people with dementia and their visitors.