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A comprehensive guide with very detailed information about different types of behavioural expressions.

Based on the Clinician's Field Guide but written specially for family carers who are seeking a more in-depth understanding of behavioural and psychological changes.

The Reducing Behaviours of Concern (ReBOC) guide promotes evidence based practice in dementia care to maximise the quality of life for people living with dementia and their carers.

This quick reference guide contains a range of suggestions to help you support a person who is having difficulty using and/or finding the toilet.

Quick Reference Guide: Delirium Screen.

This brief guide can serve as a reminder for how to use validation or reflective listening approaches in four different scenarios.

Contains strategies to assist you in caring for a person who may be at risk of leaving a safe area and becoming lost.

This guide provides you with practical strategies to try and others to avoid when responding to common medication difficulties. Issues with medication may have more than one cause. Consulting with the person’s GP or a pharmacist may be needed. Your DSA behaviour consultant may tailor several of the strategies listed below by understanding the person and their situation.

A quick reference summary of 12 key points to work with people with dementia for remote Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander carers.

Activity guidelines for health professionals working with Indigenous Australians with dementia in rural and remote Australia.

A4 poster on understanding and responding to aggression.

A4 poster on understanding and responding to agitation.

A4 poster on understanding and responding to anxiety.

A4 poster on understanding and responding to apathy.

A4 poster on understanding and responding to calling out.

A4 poster on understanding and responding to a person who is experiencing delusions and hallucinations.

A4 poster on understanding and responding to depression in a person who is living with dementia.

A4 Poster about understanding and responding to a person who refuses care.

A4 Poster on helping a person who is experiencing problems with their sleep and dementia.

A4 Poster on supporting a person with changes in social behaviour.

Resource that outlines activities ideas to use with people living with dementia from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds. Aims to improve quality of life and reduce the impact of behaviour.

A4 Poster on responding to wandering behaviour in a person living with dementia. For A3 colour copies of the 11 posters in this range please contact Kim Burns via email: k.burns@unsw.edu.au.

Guidelines for introducing Animal Assisted Therapy in Dementia Care; including Animal Assisted Activity and Simulated and Robotic Pets for Therapy.

Guidelines on introducing Child Representative Therapy in Dementia Care.

This resource aims to provide you with an understanding of the potential causes of delusions and hallucinations and how the person with dementia can be supported. Each scenario in this guide shows a way of responding to the person in a way that validates emotions, and when appropriate, provides a valued re-direction so the person can focus on something which alleviates distress and worry.

This guide describes a way to explore the potential benefits of apps and the use of a tablet device to create engagement and enjoyment with, and for, a person living with dementia. A tablet device can provide easy access to play games, reminisce, listen to music or be artistic. It can be used to assist relaxation; and assist family carers and health professionals to respond to a person with behavioural and psychological changes.