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Table of contents:
Changed behaviours and dementia
Looking after families and carers
Caring for someone with dementia
Information for people with dementia
Dementia-friendly environments
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Tips to assist social engagement
Select your language:
About dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 01: Information about dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 02: Diagnosing dementia
- About dementia 03: Diagnosis: Informing the person with dementia
- About dementia 04: Information for family and friends
- About dementia 05: Information for young people
- About dementia 06: Information about dementia for parents and grandparents
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 07: Early planning
- About dementia 09: Drug treatments and dementia
- About dementia 10: Genetics of dementia
- About dementia 11: Dementia research
- About dementia 12: Memory changes
- About dementia 12: Memory changes
- About dementia 12: Memory changes
- About dementia 12: Memory changes
- About dementia 12: Memory changes
- About dementia 12: Memory changes
- About dementia 12: Memory changes
- About dementia 12: Memory changes
- About dementia 12: Memory changes
- About dementia 12: Memory changes
- About dementia 13: Alzheimer's disease
- About dementia 13: Alzheimer's disease
- About dementia 13: Alzheimer's disease
- About dementia 13: Alzheimer's disease
- About dementia 15: Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease
- About dementia 16: Vascular dementia
- About dementia 16: Vascular dementia
- About dementia 16: Vascular dementia
- About dementia 16: Vascular dementia
- About dementia 17: Frontotemporal dementia
- About dementia 18: Alcohol related dementia and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
- About dementia 19: HIV associated dementia
- About dementia 20: Lewy body disease
- About dementia 21: Younger onset dementia
- About dementia 22: Posterior cortical atrophy
- About dementia 23: Dementia terminology
- About dementia 24: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) dementia
Changed behaviours and dementia
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 01: Changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 02: Understanding changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 02: Understanding changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 02: Understanding changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 02: Understanding changes in behaviour
- Changed behaviours and dementia 03: Depression and dementia
- Changed behaviours and dementia 04: Wandering
- Changed behaviours and dementia 04: Wandering
- Changed behaviours and dementia 05: Restless behaviour in the afternoon
- Changed behaviours and dementia 06: Anxious behaviours
- Changed behaviours and dementia 07: Aggressive behaviours
- Changed behaviours and dementia 08: Agitated behaviours
- Changed behaviours and dementia 09: Hallucinations and false ideas
- Changed behaviours and dementia 10: Disinhibited behaviours
Looking after families and carers
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 01: Taking a break
- Looking after families and carers 02: Taking care of yourself
- Looking after families and carers 03: Feelings
- Looking after families and carers 03: Feelings
- Looking after families and carers 03: Feelings
- Looking after families and carers 04: Men in a supportive role
- Looking after families and carers 04: Partners in a caring role
- Looking after families and carers 05: Grief and bereavement after the death of someone with dementia
Caring for someone with dementia
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 01: Communication
- Caring for someone with dementia 02: Therapies and communication approaches
- Caring for someone with dementia 03: Safety issues
- Caring for someone with dementia 03: Safety issues
- Caring for someone with dementia 03: Safety issues
- Caring for someone with dementia 04: Caring for someone who lives alone
- Caring for someone with dementia 04: Caring for someone who lives alone
- Caring for someone with dementia 05: Activities
- Caring for someone with dementia 05: Activities
- Caring for someone with dementia 05: Activities
- Caring for someone with dementia 05: Activities
- Caring for someone with dementia 06: Making the most of respite care
- Caring for someone with dementia 06: Making the most of respite care
- Caring for someone with dementia 07: Driving
- Caring for someone with dementia 07: Driving
- Caring for someone with dementia 07: Driving
- Caring for someone with dementia 08: Travelling
- Caring for someone with dementia 08: Travelling
- Caring for someone with dementia 09: Working with doctors
- Caring for someone with dementia 09: Working with doctors
- Caring for someone with dementia 09: Working with doctors
- Caring for someone with dementia 09: Working with doctors
- Caring for someone with dementia 10: Going to hospital
- Caring for someone with dementia 11: Pain
- Caring for someone with dementia 12: Eating changes
- Caring for someone with dementia 13: Nutrition
- Caring for someone with dementia 14: Dental care
- Caring for someone with dementia 15: Getting dressed
- Caring for someone with dementia 16: Changes to sleep
- Caring for someone with dementia 17: Hygiene support
- Caring for someone with dementia 18: Incontinence
- Caring for someone with dementia 19: Intimacy and sexuality
- Caring for someone with dementia 20: Later stages of dementia
- Caring for someone with dementia 20: Later stages of dementia
- Caring for someone with dementia 21: Palliative care in the terminal stage of dementia
Residential care and dementia
- Residential care and dementia 01: Residential aged care
- Residential care and dementia 02: Choosing a residential aged care home?
- Residential care and dementia 03: Caring partnerships
- Residential care and dementia 04: Good care in a residential aged care home
- Residential care and dementia 05: Coping with placement
Information for people with dementia
- Information for people with dementia 01: About you... what is dementia?
- Information for people with dementia 01: About you... what is dementia?
- Information for people with dementia 01: About you... what is dementia?
- Information for people with dementia 01: About you... what is dementia?
- Information for people with dementia 02: About you... early planning
- Information for people with dementia 02: About you... early planning
- Information for people with dementia 02: About you... early planning
- Information for people with dementia 02: About you... early planning
- Information for people with dementia 03: About you... looking after yourself
- Information for people with dementia 03: About you... looking after yourself
- Information for people with dementia 03: About you... looking after yourself
- Information for people with dementia 03: About you... looking after yourself
- Information for people with dementia 03: About you... looking after yourself
- Information for people with dementia 04: About you... driving
- Information for people with dementia 04: About you... driving
- Information for people with dementia 04: About you... driving
- Information for people with dementia 04: About you... driving
- Information for people with dementia 05: About you... living alone
- Information for people with dementia 06: About you... feelings and adjusting to change
- Information for people with dementia 06: About you... feelings and adjusting to change
- Information for people with dementia 06: About you... feelings and adjusting to change
- Information for people with dementia 07: About you... keeping involved and active
- Information for people with dementia 07: About you... keeping involved and active
- Information for people with dementia 07: About you... keeping involved and active
- Information for people with dementia 07: About you... keeping involved and active
- Information for people with dementia 08: About you... talking about the diagnosis
- Information for people with dementia 08: About you... talking about the diagnosis
- Information for people with dementia 08: About you... talking about the diagnosis
- Information for people with dementia 08: About you... talking about the diagnosis
- Information for people with dementia 09: About you... talking with your doctor
- Information for people with dementia 09: About you... talking with your doctor
- Information for people with dementia 09: About you... talking with your doctor
- Information for people with dementia 09: About you... talking with your doctor
- Information for people with dementia 10: About you... making employment decisions
- Information for people with dementia 12: About you... changes to attention and memory
- Information for people with dementia 13: About you... dental health
- Information for people with dementia 15: About you... Respite Care
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 01: What is dementia?
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 02: Diagnosing dementia
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 03: Information for family and friends
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 04: Memory changes
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 05: Alzheimer's disease
Lewy body disease
- Lewy body disease 01: Lewy body disease
- Lewy body disease 02: Cognitive (thinking) changes in Lewy body disease
- Lewy body disease 03: Neuropsychiatric (behavioural) changes in Lewy body disease
- Lewy body disease 04: Motor (physical) changes in Lewy body disease
- Lewy body disease 05: Autonomic (involuntary) changes in Lewy body disease
- Lewy body disease 06: Lewy body disease information for family and friends
- Lewy body disease 07: Lewy body disease information for home care and community respite workers
- Lewy body disease 08: Lewy body disease information for acute home workers and staff in care homes
Tips to assist social engagement
- Tips to assist social engagement 01: Tips for supporting a friend
- Tips to assist social engagement 01: Tips for supporting a friend
- Tips to assist social engagement 01: Tips for supporting a friend
- Tips to assist social engagement 01: Tips for supporting a friend
- Tips to assist social engagement 01: Tips for supporting a friend
- Tips to assist social engagement 01: Tips for supporting a friend
- Tips to assist social engagement 01: Tips for supporting a friend
- Tips to assist social engagement 01: Tips for supporting a friend
- Tips to assist social engagement 01: Tips for supporting a friend
- Tips to assist social engagement 01: Tips for supporting a friend
- Tips to assist social engagement 01: Tips for supporting a friend
- Tips to assist social engagement 02: Tips for visiting
- Tips to assist social engagement 02: Tips for visiting
- Tips to assist social engagement 02: Tips for visiting
- Tips to assist social engagement 02: Tips for visiting
- Tips to assist social engagement 02: Tips for visiting
- Tips to assist social engagement 02: Tips for visiting
- Tips to assist social engagement 02: Tips for visiting
- Tips to assist social engagement 02: Tips for visiting
- Tips to assist social engagement 02: Tips for visiting
- Tips to assist social engagement 02: Tips for visiting
- Tips to assist social engagement 02: Tips for visiting
- Tips to assist social engagement 03: Tips for celebrating special occasions
- Tips to assist social engagement 04: Tips to plan activities: art and writing
- Tips to assist social engagement 05: Tips to plan activities: music
- Tips to assist social engagement 06: Tips for caring from a distance
Dementia Q&A
- Dementia Q&A 01: Drug treatments for Alzheimer’s disease: Cholinesterase inhibitors
- Dementia Q&A 02: PBS subsidies for cholinesterase inhibitors: What are the conditions?
- Dementia Q&A 03: Drug treatments for Alzheimer’s disease: Memantine
- Dementia Q&A 04: Drugs used to relieve behavioural and psychological symptoms (changed or responsive behaviours) of dementia
- Dementia Q&A 05: Risperidone for treatment of behavioural symptoms in dementia
- Dementia Q&A 06: Mental exercise and dementia
- Dementia Q&A 07: What you eat and drink and your brain
- Dementia Q&A 08: Physical exercise and dementia
- Dementia Q&A 09: Safer walking for people with dementia – approaches and technologies
- Dementia Q&A 10: Tests used in diagnosing dementia
- Dementia Q&A 11: Diagnostic criteria for dementia
- Dementia Q&A 13: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
- Dementia Q&A 14: Vascular cognitive impairment
- Dementia Q&A 15: Depression and dementia
- Dementia Q&A 16: Pain and dementia
- Dementia Q&A 18: Rights to health information
- Dementia Q&A 19: Aluminium and Alzheimer's disease
- Dementia Q&A 20: Anaesthesia for older people and people with dementia
- Dementia Q&A 21: Delirium and dementia
- Dementia Q&A 22: Preventing financial abuse of people with dementia
- Dementia Q&A 23: Souvenaid – a dietary treatment for mild Alzheimer’s disease
- Dementia Q&A 24: Anticholinergic drugs and dementia
- Dementia Q&A 25: Benzodiazepines and dementia
- Dementia Q&A 26: Brain donation
Your Brain Matters
- Your Brain Matters 02: 5 Simple Steps
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