Resources

This booklet from the Dementia Centre and HammondCare has been developed for people who are caring for or supporting a Deaf/deaf person living with dementia. It aims to provide an introduction to dementia and changes in behaviours that a person may experience living with the condition.

This booklet from the Dementia Centre and HammondCare has been developed  for family and friends who are supporting a deaf person with dementia. It can help to better understand and identify changes in behaviours.

An accessible guide from the National Health and Medical Research Council for research and translation aimed at improving the lives of people living with dementia, their families, and carers (available in English, Arabic, Chinese traditional, Chinese simplified, Greek, Italian, and Vietnamese).

In this course from Dementia Training Australia, you will explore why environments matter and how you can help support transformation of the places you work to better support people living with dementia.

A Life Story book can be used as a tool to help facilitate person-centred care. It enables caregivers to engage and communicate with a person living with dementia, understand their unique needs, and provide meaningful interaction based on the person’s likes and dislikes and personal history. This resource is from Alzheimer's WA.

Information sheet from Dementia Australia regarding the symptoms of COVID-19.

This video from the Empowered Project provides perspectives about changed behaviour in dementia from professionals and family members of people living with dementia.

This helpsheet from Dementia Support Australia looks at four common difficulties with using the toilet for people with dementia — and suggests ideas to offer support.

The posters from Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration and the Dementia Behaviour Management Advisory Service, Northern Territory provide clinicians and health professionals working with Aboriginal communities in remote areas with a hard copy resource that can be left in the community after the visit.

In this course from Dementia Training Australia, you will explore how dementia impacts the physiology of the brain and its effects on an individual’s ability to perform activities of daily living.