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Isabelle, whose mum Christine passed away from Alzheimer’s disease at just 59.

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Dementia Australia is using technology to support people living with dementia, their carers and families and to create experiential learning and development tools for health care professionals.

Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety

A Better Visit

A Better Visit is a free iPad app that enhances communication and social interactions between people with dementia and their visitors.

Become a dementia friend!

Make your community dementia-friendly, support people living with dementia.

Dementia costs Australia $14.67 billion a year.

By 2056, $36 billion a year.

Medicines and dementia: what you need to know

Medicines do not have to be part of your care plan for dementia, nor play a large role in your life.

We are committed to meeting the needs of people from the LGBTI community

Embrace diversity

Support, information and education for People living
with dementia Support, information and education for Carers, family
and friends Support, information and education for Health
professionals

A coronavirus (COVID-19) update from Dementia Australia

Read our latest update on coronavirus (COVID-19) here.

Available resources

Tips for carers, families and friends of people living with dementia
Tips for residential care providers
Tips for home care providers
Tips for people living with dementia

Welcome to Dementia Australia

We represent the 459,000 Australians living with dementia and the almost 1.6 million Australians involved in their care.

Dementia-friendly communities

A dementia-friendly community is a place where people living with dementia are supported to live a high quality of life with meaning, purpose and value.

Dementia Australia has developed resources to assist all Australians to get a better understanding of what they can do to contribute to a dementia-friendly nation.

For more information visit www.dementiafriendly.org.au.

Free phone and email support service

The National Dementia Helpline is open nationally from 9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday excluding public holidays. A message service is available so if you call outside operating hours, we’ll call you back the next working day. More information

Make a difference

You can make regular donations, donate to local services and to research

For health professionals

Support

Services to support people with any type of dementia, their families and carers

What is dementia?

Education

Australia's leading dementia learning service

Help Sheets

Advice on the issues most commonly raised about dementia

Resources

Videos, facts, guides, toolkits, helpsheets, translated information and useful resources

What is dementia?

Dementia definitions, symptoms and causes, memory loss

Featured video

Latest videos

Dementia Action Week - Real Voices

Dementia Australia virtual reality and computer games to bring a positive change in dementia care

Carers and people living with dementia share Christmas festive wishes

The diet to fight dementia

It's not a disgrace... It's dementia - Hindi

More latest videos

Media releases

Dementia peak body welcomes funding to improve palliative care

Australians urged to keep the world open for people living with dementia

Dementia Australia volunteers changing communities and lives

Free online dementia courses for aged care workers during COVID-19 pandemic

Industry Code for visiting aged care homes released

Consultation on draft Aged Care Visitor Access Code

Dementia peak body welcomes funding to support isolated older Australians during COVID-19 pandemic

Isolating does not have to mean isolated

New hotline for older Australians during COVID-19 pandemic launched

Reaffirmation of aged care visit guidelines must bring an end to insensitive restrictions

Calendar

Care for the carer - 3 June - Online / QLD (VBS)

Health and hygiene at home - Starting 3 June - Online / SA

Activities at home - 3 June - Online / VIC

Driving and dementia - 3 June - Online / SA

Communication and dementia - 3 June - Online / VIC

Care for the carer - 4 June - Online / QLD (VTV)

Care for the carer - 5 June - Online / QLD (VCS)

Care for the carer - 9 June - Online / QLD

POSTPONED: Care for the carer - Starting 9 June - Glenelg North

Communication - 9 June - Live webinar

Michelle Oppert 🧠🇦🇺 55m @MichelleOppert

RT @NAgeingRI: 1 in 3 older Australians is from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background, yet they are poorly represented…

Palash Sarker 🌏 59m @PalashSarker000

RT @DementiaAus: If you’re running out of ideas for fun with family or friends, then we highly suggest you try THINKO! Funds raised during…

Centre for Optimism 1h @Centre4Optimism

RT @Centre4Optimism: #Dementia and #Optimism? Really? What makes you #optimistic as someone living with dementia? What makes you optimis…

Centre for Optimism 1h @Centre4Optimism

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Centre for Optimism 1h @Centre4Optimism

RT @Centre4Optimism: What can we learn from #people living with #dementia and their carers about utilising #optimism during difficult times…

Centre for Optimism 1h @Centre4Optimism

RT @Centre4Optimism: The infectiously #optimistic #leadership of @DementiaAus's CEO @MareeMcCabe. What's to be optimistic about #dementia,…

Australian Ageing Agenda 1h @AustAgeAgenda

RT @DementiaAus: According to new @Flinders research, telehealth delivery of dementia care in the home can be as effective as face-to-face…

Australian Ageing Agenda 1h @AustAgeAgenda

RT @NAgeingRI: 1 in 3 older Australians is from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background, yet they are poorly represented…

@balbensi 1h @balbensi

RT @DementiaAus: If you’re running out of ideas for fun with family or friends, then we highly suggest you try THINKO! Funds raised during…

Career opportunities

Support Coordinator (TAS)

flexible in Tasmania

Quality Business Partner

ACT

Support Coordinator (VIC)

Victoria

Client Services Administration Officer (North Ryde, NSW)

North Ryde, NSW

Business Services Administrator

North Ryde, NSW

Quality and Projects Administration Officer

Flexible

Dementia Support Specialist (Cairns, QLD)

Cairns, QLD

News

Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT) Registry and Clinical Trials Program

Dementia Australia mourns the passing of Emeritus Professor Hal Kendig

Dementia advocates marry after 34 years together

Dementia Awareness Month 2017

1200 kilometres in honour of Nan.

Memory Walk and Jog

Three families living with dementia share their experience through ABC’s Four Corners

GIANTS netball ace Sam Poolman becomes Dementia Australia NSW Ambassador

Gold Coast volunteer making a difference

National Volunteer Week

Featured resources

Clone of Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Tips for residential care providers

Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Tips for Carers, Families and Friends of People Living with Dementia

Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Tips for home care providers

Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Tips for People Living with Dementia

Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Tips for residential aged care providers

Dementia and your legal rights

Dementia language guidelines

Family and friends matter

Information for health professionals

LGBTI and dementia

A coronavirus (COVID-19) update from Dementia Australia

Read more here