Tips for someone living with dementia

• The Dementia Guide by Dementia Australia

  Publication Date: 2024; edited 2025

  For people living with dementia, their families and carers. The Dementia Guide is an important resource for any person impacted by any form of dementia, of any age. This resource contains information about the impact dementia may have on a person, the treatment, support and services they may need. It is available to read online, download as a pdf, listen to an audio version or request a print copy.
• The Younger Onset Dementia Guide by Dementia Australia

  Publication Date: 2025

  The Younger Onset Dementia Guide is for anyone impacted by younger onset dementia. The information in this guide is divided into four parts. Part 1: About dementia and younger onset dementia, Part 2: Supports, services, and advice, Part 3: Support and information for carers and family members., Part 4: Useful tools.

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  Family and Friends Matter: How to stay connected with a person living with dementia by Dementia Australia

  Publication Date: 2025
  Family and friends matter. They help us navigate life’s ups and downs. They accept us as we are. If your family member or friend has been diagnosed with dementia, it’s natural to feel unsure about what this means for the future. Here you’ll find answers to questions like: How will dementia impact our relationship? What can we do to keep a special bond? How can we stay connected in meaningful ways? What interests can we continue to enjoy together?

• Discrimination and dementia – enough is enough by Dementia Australia

  Dementia Action Week Report 2021
  For all the increased recognition of human rights over the past decades and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities coming into force, people living with dementia still report experiencing discrimination and not feeling fully included within society. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities affirms that all persons with all types of disabilities (including people living with dementia) must enjoy the same rights as everyone else, including rights to autonomy in decision-making, independent living, community inclusion, and liberty. The challenge, however, is to shift attitudes, and design and deliver services, businesses and infrastructure that are flexible, innovative, accessible, appropriate and culturally safe to ensure people with dementia, their families and carers are well supported and included within the Australian community.
• Talking to someone with dementia

  A guide to ways in which people with dementia say good communication would improve their lives. This resource has been developed by the Dementia Australia Advisory Committee (DAAC). The national representative group made up of people living with dementia.
• Dementia language guidelines

  How to promote the consistent use of appropriate, inclusive and non stigmatising language when talking or writing about dementia and people living with dementia.
• Engage, enable, empower by Dementia Australia

  Tips and stories to support a good quality of life with dementia. Exploring how small changes to lifestyle can lead to better health and well being.
• Dementia statistics by Dementia Australia

  Key facts and statistics - Updated February 2025

• Personal accounts of dementia

  Writings of lived experience by people living with dementia in the eCollection