Dementia
Briefing paper
Dementia
This issues paper outlines dementia data and services and supports offered in Gippsland.
Discussion paper
Support. Encourage. Empower.
This paper demonstrates the crucial role that Dementia Australia’s 'Dementia-Friendly Communities' program has had in improving dementia knowledge, facilitating inclusivity and reducing stigma and discrimination in the community.
Report
Predicting early dementia using Medicare claims
This feasibility study aimed to identify whether early dementia could be predicted from primary and secondary care service utilisation, as recorded in Medicare claims data, in the absence of diagnosis information.
Report
Dementia in Australia 2021: summary report
This summary report provides a picture of dementia in Australia, including the latest statistics on dementia prevalence, burden of disease, deaths, expenditure, as well as the use of health and aged care services among people with dementia and information on carers of people with dementia.
Briefing paper
Reablement interventions for community dwelling people living with dementia
This paper summarises research, government, and non-government documents that have explored the concept of reablement in dementia care; and describes how reablement interventions work to address the needs of people living with dementia and their care partners, as well as how these interventions are, or can be, adopted in the Australian health and aged care...