Our dementia and Alzheimer’s information sheets provide advice, common sense approaches and practical strategies on the issues most commonly raised about dementia.
Our extensive range of online resources for people living with dementia includes information sheets, statistics, publications and videos.
Useful Resources
Table of contents
- About dementia information guides
- Types of dementia
- Alzheimer's WA Information Sheets
- About dementia help sheets
- Family and carer help sheets
- Caring for someone with dementia help sheets
- Residential care and dementia help sheets
- Help sheets for people with dementia
- Environment help sheets
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people help sheets
- Lewy body disease help sheets
- Tips to assist social engagement help sheets
- Your Brain Matters help sheets
- Help Sheet collections
- Disclaimer and advice
About dementia information guides
- Understanding dementia – NEW
- Living with dementia – NEW
- Caring for a person living with dementia: The lived experience – NEW
- Caring for a person living with dementia: Everyday living – NEW
- Services to Support You – NEW
- Communication and Engagement – NEW
- Understanding Behaviour: The Impact of Dementia – NEW
About dementia help sheets
- What is dementia
- Diagnosing dementia
- Diagnosis – informing the person with dementia
- Information for family and friends
- Problem solving
- Dementia and depression
- Information about dementia for young people
- Information about dementia for parents and grandparents
- Early planning
- Next steps
- Drug treatments and dementia
- Genetics of dementia
- Dementia research
- Memory changes
- Progression of Alzheimer’s disease
- Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease
- HIV associated dementia
- Posterior Cortical Atrophy
- Dementia terminology
- Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
Family and carer help sheets
Caring for someone with dementia help sheets
- Communication
- Therapies and communication approaches
- Safety issues
- Caring for someone who lives alone
- Activities
- Making the most of respite care
- Driving
- Travelling
- Working with doctors
- Going to hospital
- Pain
- Eating
- Nutrition
- Dental care
- Dressing
- Sleeping
- Hygiene
- Continence
- Intimacy and sexual issues
- Later stages of dementia
- Palliative care
Residential care and dementia help sheets
Environment help sheets
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people help sheets
Lewy body disease help sheets
- Lewy body disease
- Cognitive (thinking) changes in Lewy body disease
- Neuropsychiatric (behavioural) changes in Lewy body disease
- Motor (physical) changes in Lewy body disease
- Autonomic (involuntary function) changes in Lewy body disease
- Information for family and friends
- Information for home and community care workers
- Information for day placement workers
- Information for acute care workers
- Information for care facilities
Your Brain Matters help sheets
