Caregiving and dementia

• Allied health
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI)
• Behavioural and psychological symptoms
• Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD)
• Diagnosing dementia
• Environmental design and assistive technology
• GPs and medical specialists
• Medication management
• Nursing
• Palliative
• Person centred care
• Sexualities and dementia
• Younger onset dementia

Prize winners from the essay contest:

Essay prize winners in 2010-2011 were invited to contribute their essay to the knowledge commons:

1. Dementia with Lewy Bodies
2. Dementia and motivation
3. Does nutritional status play a role in the onset of dementia?
4. Facilitating meaningful activity for people with dementia within residential facilities
5. Frontotemporal dementia
6. Nutrition-related factors and the development of dementia
7. Pairing physiology of Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia with effective drug treatments
8. The RUDAS, CSDD, and the SGA: Description, analyses and recommendations for practice