Resources
Browse resources created and collated by ARIIA as a trusted, evidence-based guide to supporting innovation across the aged care sector.
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Dementia friendly pharmacy (course)
In this course from Dementia Training Australia, you will explore the ways in which community pharmacies can improve their ability to meet the needs of family carers of people living with dementia.
Dementia-friendly home app
The Dementia-Friendly Home app from Dementia Australia is available for tablets and mobile phones. Using interactive 3D game technology Unreal Engine, the app provides carers with ideas to make their home more accessible for people living with dementia. Many of the app suggestions are small, inexpensive solutions ranging to more significant changes.
Dementia-friendly Environments
This webpage from the Victorian Government Department of Health presents research and provides a guide to establishing a dementia-friendly environment.
Dementia friendly environments
A collection of videos from Dementia Australia related to dementia-friendly environments.
Dementia: Find out how to stay safe on the road with dementia
This webpage from Vic Roads provides information regarding how dementia may impact ability to drive safely, and next steps.
Dementia Enabling Environments
An enabling environment will encourage a person with dementia to lead as full and independent a life as possible. This website from Alzheimer's WA provides practical tips, guides and resources to help make the places where we live more dementia-enabling.
Dementia enablement guide: Person living with dementia
This Pamphlet from Queensland Health provides contact information and guidance for specific specialties which a person living with dementia may want to consider reaching out to.
Dementia enablement guide: GP version
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.
Dementia enablement guide: Further information
Theis Pamphlet from Queensland Health details the types of clinicians and organisations that someone with a recent diagnosis may wish to contact in relation to a number of commonly experienced issues.
Dementia - emotional changes
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.