Dementia Resources

A toolkit drawn from experience – a project called Encouraging Best Practice in Residential Aged Care: Reducing behaviours of concern in residential aged care by working with staff, families and the physical environment.

This booklet particularly concerns those residents living with dementia when they behave in ways which are upsetting or potentially harmful to you, themselves or others. These are known as behaviours of concern, or challenging behaviours.

This booklet is for families who have a loved one living in an aged care facility. Each person’s experience of caring for someone with dementia will be different but everyone experiences difficult moments.

Has your dementia group been invited to walk round and comment on an outside public space? For example, a shopping centre, park, station or the approach to a public building.

HammondCare Media - the non-profit publishing arm of HammondCare and the Dementia Centre - is now the exclusive supplier in Australia and New Zealand of the Hierarchic Dementia Scale-Revised kit.