Library guides: Tips to support people living with dementia: Home life

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Home life

People living with dementia often have different sensory perceptions, and their immediate environment can have a large impact on their wellbeing and quality of life.

The Dementia-Friendly Home app
The Dementia-Friendly Home app is designed by Dementia Australia to help individuals, carers, family members adapt or design a home for a person living with dementia. You are placed in a virtual home where you can discover how to make a home more suitable for people living with dementia. You can explore each room at your own pace and interact with objects which allow you to immediately discover the impact a simple modification may have to improving quality of home life.

How to design dementia- friendly care environments by Dementia Australia
The designed environment can have a major impact on a person living with dementia. This Help Sheet will outline the key principles to enable you to make simple changes at home or in a care facility to help make the best of everyday life.
Adapting your home by Dementia Australia
The physical environment can have a major impact on a person living with dementia. This Help Sheet provides information for families and carers on how to create a dementia-friendly environment that maximises the wellbeing of people living with dementia at home and increases their participation in activities.
Safety issues (in the home) by Dementia Australia
This Help Sheet discusses some of the safety issues that need to be considered when caring for someone with dementia. It provides some tips for safety inside and outside the home, and a basic safety checklist for use by families and carers.
Dementia & Sensory Challenges
Publication Date: 2015
Dementia can be more than memory.
This booklet was inspired by and created with the words of people with dementia to give readers ideas on how to make the lives of people with dementia more pleasant, allowing them to be more socially included and no longer feeling alone. The booklet was created with funding support from the Life Changes Trust.

Dementia Enabling Environments / Alzheimer’s Western Australia
The Dementia Enabling Environment Virtual Information Centre provides practical tips, guides and resources to help make the places where we live more dementia enabling.
It can help you develop an enabling environment for a person living with dementia, making a significant difference to their independence, quality of life and wellbeing.

How dementia-friendly is your home?
This education session provides information about dementia and the likely impact of the symptoms on a person’s perception of, and ability to successfully navigate their home environment.
Suitable for: People living with dementia and their family carers and family members.