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A website, suitable for care workers, health professionals and family carers, linking to free online resources

This is believed to be the first comprehensive guide of its kind and is designed to complement the Clinical Practice Guidelines And Principles Of Care For People With Dementia launched...

The Virtual Forest™ is a screen-projected game for people living with dementia. The virtual environment is designed to be calming and relaxing.

A composer and PhD student has released 20 classical music tracks specifically for people with dementia.

An online video series to educate dentists and their teams on best practice care for people with dementia.

A short film produced by filmmaker Andrew Ferguson as part of Celebrate Ageing’ s Letters of Love and Dementia Campaign

Purposeful Activities For Dementia offers practical ways that carers can engage people living with dementia in purposeful activities at home and in social groups.

A free handbook and online guide released at the end of 2016 by Dementia Australia Vic, offering information and support options for anyone impacted by dementia.

The Delirium Clinical Care Standard provides guidance on delivering appropriate clinical care to patients at risk of developing, or with, delirium in hospital

KT in dementia care is the science and art of making what we do match what we know...

An update to the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards is due to be released in late 2017.

The CAUSEd problem-solving tool assists carers to understand and respond when people with dementia are communicating their unmet needs through their behaviour.

An interactive talking book designed to assist health workers to use a well-being approach to provide meaningful care for younger people living with dementia.

The Caring for Cognitive Impairment Campaign website has resources, strategies and tools to help health care services develop a strategic approach for improving care to patients with cognitive impairment.

Giving Voice Chorus is a choir program for people with dementia and their care partners.

A collection of real people’s stories from author Anne Kelly’s almost 30 years’ of experience working in aged and dementia care

A free app to help people with dementia live more independent lives, stay connected to their social environment and give carers tools to engage with and know the person’s life...

A compilation of web based CALD resources which may assist in the delivery of culturally appropriate care to older people.

This is a collection of curated websites about dementia for people with dementia and carers.

This guide offers practical advice and recommendations, as well as links to other resources, to help organisers ensure people with dementia are included on an equal basis to all other...