Dementia Australia
Dementia Australia can provide assistance and resources to manage the behaviour changes that sometimes accompany dementia. Behaviours changes can include resistance, wandering, agitation, anxiety and aggression.
Refer care givers to Alzheimers Australia Vic for social and environmental education interventions and problem solving approaches provided in the Living with Memory Loss program as a preventive / delaying intervention of tier 2 of the seven-tiered model of management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.
Training family caregivers and care staff in behavioural management techniques involving meaningful activities and problem solving can reduce agitation and anxiety in people with dementia. Dementia Australia can provide education to primary care workers and family care givers to help manage BPSD generally associated with tier 3 of the seven-tiered model of management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.
Dementia Australia: Changed behaviours and dementia help sheets
Contacts
Ring the National Dementia Helpline: 1800 100 500 and ask for the South Eastern Melbourne Alzheimer's Service
9 am - 5 pm
For interpreter services contact the Helpline through the Telephone Interpreting Service on 131 450