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Welcome to Dementia Australia, the new voice of Alzheimer's Australia

We represent the 413,106 Australians living with dementia and the estimated 291,163 Australians involved in their care.

This section of the website, carers.dementia.org.au, contains carefully selected content which we think is relevant and useful to families, friends and carers of people who are living with dementia.

If you know of any information, resource, service or link which should be listed here, please use the "feedback" link on this page to tell us about it.

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For health professionals

Support

Services to support people with any type of dementia, their families and carers

Learning

Australia's leading dementia learning service

Help Sheets

Advice on the issues most commonly raised about dementia

Resources

Videos, facts, guides, toolkits, helpsheets, translated information and useful resources

What is dementia?

Dementia definitions, symptoms and causes, memory loss

Latest videos

Dementia Australia virtual reality and computer games to bring a positive change in dementia care

Carers and people living with dementia share Christmas festive wishes

The diet to fight dementia

It's not a disgrace... It's dementia - Hindi

Younger Onset Dementia & the NDIS

More latest videos

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Media releases

Frontotemporal dementia – a combined national focus provides opportunity to raise awareness, improve access and increase support services

Star cartoonist, broadcasting favourite and charity team create book to help kids understand dementia

Supporting carers of people with dementia has broader benefits

Dementia Australia celebrates National Carers Week 2018

Dementia front and centre in the Terms of Reference for Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety

People living with dementia in waiting list limbo

Dementia as second leading cause of death of all Australians, on the rise

Dementia urgently needs to be core business in aged care

World Alzheimer’s Day puts the focus on the growing number of people developing dementia

Australians don’t know how to talk to people with dementia, survey finds, as figures reveal its increasing impact

Calendar

Blokes in a Caring Role - 4 week program starting Friday November 9 - Wangaratta

Family Carer Program - November until December 2018 - Salisbury North

Living With Memory Loss - Tue 20 November - Brisbane South

Dementia Friends - Understanding Dementia - Tuesday 20 November - Glenside

Considering Residential Care - Wed 21 November - Toowoomba

Living With Dementia Program - Thursday 22 November - Glenside

Family Carers Course - Thu 22 November - Brisbane South

Introduction to frontotemporal dementia and services - Thursday 22 November - Bendigo

Living With Memory Loss - Tue 27 November - Maryborough

Effective Communication - Thursday 27 November - Daylesford

Jake Naylor 7h @aesonjn

RT @DementiaAus: #CANBERRA - we're coming back! Are you ready for us? Memory Walk & Jog returns in February, with an event at the foreshore…

nursesKidONE 16h @nursesKidONE

@YODsupporter @DementiaAllianc @DementiaAus @DiverseAlz @sarahmtmartha @agedcarecrisis @ThatVDOVault @mason4233… https://t.co/t9CS6hFYqn

NeuroKnowledge 17h @NeuroKnowledge

Episode #8 -- Dementia 2.0 is now live! @lewybodyorg @TheHSF @DementiaUK @DementiaAus @AlzCanada @alzheimerssoc https://t.co/h7TjcIm8KH

Betty's Love 18h @BettysLove

RT @BettysLove: @GOPChairwoman @GOP @karenhandel @LadiesGOP @HouseGOP @SenateGOP @IvankaTrump @SarahHuckabee @JudgeJeanine @foxandfriends @…

Ita Buttrose 1d @ItaButtrose

RT @DementiaAus: Are community art centres the missing link in supporting Australia’s remote Indigenous populations to age well? Researcher…

KalendarKards 1d @KalendarKards

Starting a #MemoryCafe to support #caregivers & those living with #Alzheimers, #dementia, or other #MCI? Need… https://t.co/gl3Lx8QUDh

Nicole Shepherd 1d @qldmedethics

I'm looking forward to sharing our research on travel as part of living well with dementia today at Alzheimer's Qld… https://t.co/5mxyqxikjZ

KalendarKards 1d @KalendarKards

See our suggestions for how to promote your #MemoryCafe. The question most often asked is, "How to I boost attendan… https://t.co/3N3dtDqkev

Sydney Cognitive 1d @SydneyCognitive

RT @KirrilyRogers: Take some time today to register with @DementiaAus as a dementia friend - one step you can take to support those affecte…

Sydney Cognitive 1d @SydneyCognitive

RT @DementiaAus: We would like to congratulate Dementia Australia Ambassador @ItaButtrose on being awarded @UNSW highest honour – an honora…

News

Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT) Registry and Clinical Trials Program

Dementia Australia mourns the passing of Emeritus Professor Hal Kendig

Dementia advocates marry after 34 years together

Featured resources

Dementia and your legal rights

Dementia language guidelines

Family and friends matter

LGBTI and dementia

Medicines and dementia: what you need to know

Men's Shed manual

Support for carers

Support pathways for people with younger onset dementia

Worried about your memory?

Younger Onset Dementia and the NDIS