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  • About dementia
    • What is dementia?
      • What is younger onset dementia?
      • Behaviour
        • Behaviour changes
      • How is dementia treated?
        • Drug treatments & dementia
        • Drugs used to relieve behavioural & psychological symptoms of dementia
        • Use of other therapeutic treatments
      • Progression of dementia
    • Dementia statistics
      • Dementia prevalence data
    • Memory loss
      • Memory changes
      • Mild Cognitive Impairment
    • Types of dementia
      • Alzheimer's disease
      • Vascular dementia
      • Lewy Body Disease
      • Frontotemporal dementia
      • Alcohol related dementia
      • Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease
      • HIV associated dementia
      • Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) dementia
      • Childhood dementia
    • How can I find out more?
      • Frequently asked questions
      • Warning signs of dementia
      • Tests used in diagnosing dementia
      • Informing the person with dementia
    • Diagnosing dementia
      • Early diagnosis of dementia
    • Genetics of dementia
    • Planning ahead
      • About planning ahead
      • My plans
        • Do you have memory loss?
        • Who is involved
        • Too busy to start planning today?
        • Start planning
          • Think about your future
            • Overcoming barriers to having a difficult conversation
            • Looking for opportunities to raise the issue
            • Having the conversation
          • Sort out your financial issues
            • Make a will
            • Review your financial resources and plans
            • Organise your finances so another person can help
            • Appoint a financial decision maker
          • Choose who will speak for you
            • Your decision-maker: Persons identified in state and territory legislation
            • Legally appointing your decision maker
            • Guidelines for choosing your decision-maker
          • Express your health and care wishes
            • Levels of formality
            • Attitudes to advance care planning
            • Guidelines for completing the advance care planning worksheets
          • Discuss your wishes and plans
            • Guidelines for discussing your plans
            • Talking about your decisions
          • Review your wishes and plans
            • Guidelines for reviewing your plan
      • Their plans
        • Impact on everyone involved
        • Key principles for planning with, or for, someone else
        • Planning: early stages
        • Planning: minimal capacity
        • Planning: end-of-life
          • Dementia as a terminal condition
          • Making an advance care plan
      • Planning tools
        • ACT
          • How do I make a will?
          • Appointing someone to make financial decisions
          • Who will the doctor ask to give consent
          • Legally appointing someone to make health and lifestyle decisions
          • How else can I document my wishes?
          • Where will my documents be recognised?
          • Advance care planning in the ACT
        • NSW
          • How do I make a will?
          • Legally appointing someone to make financial decisions
          • Who will the doctor ask to give consent?
          • Legally appointing someone to make health and lifestyle decisions
          • How else can I document my wishes?
          • Where will my documents be recognised?
          • Advance care planning in New South Wales
        • NT
          • How do I make a will?
          • Legally appointing someone to make financial decisions
          • Who will the doctor ask to give consent?
          • Legally appointing someone to make health and lifestyle decisions
          • How else can I document my wishes?
          • Where will my documents be recognised?
        • QLD
          • How do I make a will?
          • Legally appointing someone to make financial decisions
          • Who will the doctor ask to give consent?
          • Legally appointing someone to make health and lifestyle decisions
          • How else can I document my wishes?
          • Where will my documents be recognised?
          • Advance care planning in Queensland
        • SA
          • How do I make a will?
          • Legally appointing someone to make financial decisions
          • Who will the doctor ask to give consent?
          • Legally appointing someone to make health and lifestyle decisions
          • How else can I document my wishes?
          • Where will my documents be recognised?
        • TAS
          • How do I make a will?
          • Legally appointing someone to make financial decisions
          • Who will the doctor ask to give consent?
          • Legally appointing someone to make health and lifestyle decisions
          • How else can I document my wishes?
          • Where will my documents be recognised?
          • Advance care planning in Tasmania
        • VIC
          • How do I make a will?
          • Legally appointing someone to make financial decisions
          • Who will the doctor ask to give consent?
          • Legally appointing someone to make health and lifestyle decisions
          • How else can I document my wishes?
          • Where will my documents be recognised?
          • Advance care planning in Victoria
        • WA
          • How do I make a will?
          • Legally appointing someone to make financial decisions
          • Who will the doctor ask to give consent?
          • Legally appointing someone to make health and lifestyle decisions
          • How else can I document my wishes?
          • Where will my documents be recognised?
          • Advance care planning in Western Australia
      • Community and health professionals
        • Raising awareness
          • Planning ahead community education resources kit
            • Presentation resources
          • Planning ahead including advance care planning videos
        • Helping individuals who want to make an advance care plan
        • Supporting substitute decision makers
        • Developing workplace systems to promote planning ahead
        • General resources for healthcare professionals
        • General Practitioners & GP Practice Nurses
          • Resources for GP's and practice nurses
        • Multicultural workers
        • Aboriginal health workers
      • Resources
        • Multilingual resources
      • Your say
    • A coronavirus (COVID-19) update
  • About you
    • I have dementia
      • First steps after diagnosis
      • Talking about your dementia
      • Talk to your doctor
      • Planning for the future
      • Employment and dementia
      • Advance care planning
    • I am a carer, family member, or friend
      • Activities for people with dementia
      • Advance care planning
      • Caring for someone who lives alone
      • Problem solving
        • Aggressive behaviours
        • Agitated behaviours
        • Anxious behaviours
        • Depression and dementia
        • Disinhibited behaviours
        • Hallucinations and false ideas
        • Sundowning
        • Wandering
      • Managing changes in communication
      • Personal care
        • Continence
        • Dental care
        • Dressing
        • Eating
        • Hygiene
        • Intimacy and sexual issues
        • Nutrition
        • Sleeping
      • Preparing your home
      • Residential care
        • Deciding on residential care
        • Choosing a residential facility
        • What is good care?
        • The partnership between you and the residential facility
        • Spending time with your loved one
        • Organisations and services that can support you
      • Safety in and around the home
      • Taking care of yourself
        • Taking a break
        • Your feelings
        • Using respite care
        • Coping after the death of someone with dementia
      • The later stages of dementia
      • Therapies and communication approaches
    • I am a health professional
      • For health professionals
        • Introduction
        • Dementia: the essentials
          • Early warning signs
          • The diagnostic types of dementia
          • The disease trajectory
          • Dementia statistics and epidemiology
          • Confronting the myths
          • Principles for a dignified diagnosis of dementia
        • Clinical resources
          • Diagnostic criteria for dementia
          • Cognitive screening and assessment
          • Communicating the diagnosis
          • Pharmacological treatment options
          • Non-pharmacological treatment options
          • Clinical tools and resources
        • Online learning
        • Patient resources and support
  • Resources
    • Free information kit
    • Videos
      • Collections
      • Community languages
      • Latest videos
    • Information in other languages
      • Arabic - العربية
      • Armenian - հայերեն
      • Assyrian ܐܵܬܘܿܪܵܝܵܐ
      • Croatian - Hrvatski
      • Dari - دری
      • Dutch - Nederlands
      • Finnish - Suomalainen
      • French - Français
      • German - Deutsche
      • Greek - ελληνικά
      • Hindi - हिंदी
      • Hungarian - Magyar
      • Indonesian - Bahasa Indonesia
      • Italian - Italiano
      • Japanese - 日本語
      • Khmer ខ្មែរ
      • Korean - 한국어
      • Lao - ລາວ
      • Latvian - Latvijas
      • Lithuanian - Lietuvos
      • Macedonian - МАКЕДОНСКИ
      • Maltese - MALTI
      • Nepali - नेपाली
      • Polish - Polskie
      • Portuguese - Português
      • Punjabi - ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਦੇ
      • Romanian - Românesc
      • Russian - русский
      • Serbian - српски
      • Simplified Chinese (Mandarin) - 普通话
      • Spanish - Español
      • Tagalog
      • Tamil - தமிழ்
      • Thai - ไทย
      • Traditional Chinese (Cantonese) - 廣東話
      • Turkish - Türk
      • Ukrainian - український
      • Vietnamese - Tiếng Việt
    • Library
    • Browse all resources
      • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
        • Indigenous Hip-Hop Project: Yarn up about dementia
        • Looking Out For Dementia
        • Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment Tool (KICA)
        • Family, Friends and Community booklet
        • Useful Websites
          • Ara Irititja
          • AAG Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ageing Committee
          • Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
          • Menzies School of Health Research
          • Western Australian Centre for Health & Ageing (WACHA)
          • Lowitja Institute
          • Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA)
          • Reconciliation Australia
          • First Peoples Disability Network (FPDN)
      • Charter of Rights and Responsibilities for Home Care
      • Community café toolkit
        • Community Café Toolkit - request form
      • Cultural and linguistic diversity
        • Culturally and linguistically diverse resources
        • Culturally appropriate dementia assessment tools
          • Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale (RUDAS)
        • CaLD Dementia Resources for Families and Professionals
      • Dementia and driving
        • Dementia and Driving - WA
        • Dementia and driving - ACT
        • Dementia and Driving - NSW
          • Alternatives to driving - NSW
        • Dementia and Driving - NT
        • Dementia and Driving - QLD
        • Dementia and Driving - SA
        • Dementia and Driving - TAS
        • Dementia and Driving - VIC
      • Dementia and your legal rights
      • Dementia language guidelines
      • Family and friends matter
      • Health professionals
        • Medicines and dementia: what you need to know
        • Education tools for dental practitioners
        • The Dementia Guide
          • Order your paperback copy
          • Download your ePUB version of the Dementia Guide
        • Clinical practice guidelines
        • Dementia Learning Guide
        • Dementia and chronic conditions series toolkit
        • Purposeful activities for people with dementia
      • Homelessness
      • LGBTI and dementia
      • LGBTI resources
      • Resources for people living in NT
      • Sensory Merchandise
      • Worried about your memory?
      • Websites
        • Dementia Australia websites
          • Centre for Dementia Learning
          • Dementia Australia Research Foundation
          • Dementia Daily
          • Dementia Friendly Communities
          • Dementia In My Family
          • Dementia Resources
          • Detect Early
          • EDIE - Educational Dementia Immersive Experience
          • Engage, Enable, Empower
          • Help with Dementia
          • Is it dementia?
          • Memory Walk & Jog
          • Quality Dementia Care
          • Safe Return
          • Valuing People
        • Australian websites
          • Aged and Community Care Services Australia
          • The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission
          • Australian Council of Social Service
          • Australian Fronto-Temporal Dementia Association
          • Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
          • Bendigo Health - Regional Dementia Management Strategy Pathway
          • beyondblue
          • Carer Gateway
          • Carers Australia
          • Centrelink
          • Continence Foundation of Australia
          • Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) Support Group Network
          • Dementia Behaviour Management Advisory Service (DBMAS)
          • Dementia Collaborative Research Centres
          • Dementia Training Australia (DTA)
          • Department of Health
          • Health Direct
          • Kate Swaffer
          • Mental Health Council of Australia
          • My Aged Care
          • National Aged Care Alliance
          • National Ageing Research Institute (NARI)
          • National Continence Helpline
          • National Health Services Directory
          • National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) National Institute for Dementia Research (NNIDR)
          • Palliative Care Australia
          • Parkinson's Australia
          • Severe Behaviour Response Team
          • Veterans’ MATES
          • Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre (CDPC)
        • International websites
          • Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI)
          • Alzheimers New Zealand
          • Alzheimer Society of Ireland
          • Dementia Alliance International (DAI)
      • Think Ahead - harmful substance use and the brain
      • Travelling with dementia
      • Younger Onset Dementia and the NDIS
      • The Dementia Guide
      • Walking safely with dementia
    • Find a resource
    • Help sheets
    • The Dementia Guide
    • Technology
      • BrainTrack
        • Brain health tips & strategies
        • Brain health tips and strategies
        • BrainTrack
          • Heart
          • Weight
          • Diet
          • Alcohol
          • Smoking
          • Exercise
          • Sleep
          • Hearing
          • Social Activity
          • Depression
        • What should I do with my results
        • About this app
        • Research
  • Risk reduction
    • Look after your heart
    • Look after your body
    • Look after your mind
    • Risk reduction resources
• Support
  • National Dementia Helpline
    • Free Dementia Kit
      • Alzheimer’s disease
      • Brain health and dementia kit
      • Caring for someone with dementia: changes in behaviour
      • Caring for someone with dementia: changes in communication
      • Frontotemporal dementia
      • Help someone with dementia stay connected
      • Lewy body dementia
      • Risk reduction and dementia information kit
      • Understanding your diagnosis information kit
      • Vascular dementia
      • Younger onset dementia
    • Helpline webchat
    • Callback from National Dementia Helpline
  • Counselling
  • Living with dementia
    • Post-diagnostic support
  • Family and carers
  • Younger onset dementia
  • Additional programs
  • Referrer support
  • Rights and responsibilities
  • Other support services
  • Service enquiry / Referral request
• Education
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• Dementia Training Australia
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• Research
  • Dementia Australia Research Foundation
    • News
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    • Contact us
    • Our researchers
    • Our Board
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    • Annual Reports
    • Hazel Hawke Alzheimer’s Research and Care Fund
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  • Participate
    • What's involved in participating?
    • Why participate in research?
    • Get involved in research
    • Submit a study
  • Grants
    • Information for applicants
      • Eligibility
      • Success rates
      • Writing tips
      • Assessment process
    • Information for universities
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  • Dementia research
    • Causes of dementia
    • Better ways of diagnosing dementia
    • Dementia care research
    • Dementia treatments and cure
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• Events
• About us
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    • Contact us
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      • ACT offices
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    • Conferences
    • Corporate partnerships
    • Dementia Advocates Program
      • Advocacy in action
      • Request to work with a Dementia Advocate
    • LGBTI communities
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    • Strategic Direction
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  • Careers and volunteering
    • Careers
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  • Campaigns
    • Dementia-Friendly Communities
    • Dementia action week
    • Tips for grassroots dementia advocacy
    • Quality Care Initiative
      • The Focus Groups
      • The National Consumer Summit
      • The Roundtable
      • The Quality Care Roadmap
  • Publications
    • Newsletters
    • Papers and reports
      • Print and online (VIC)
      • Awareness and understanding of dementia in Australia
      • Engage, enable, empower
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      • Access economics reports
    • Government Submissions
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    • Numbered publications
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