Useful Dementia publications from University of Western Sydney, Australia

[CraigC]

A booklet 'Information for carers, families and friends of people with severe dementia' has been produced by the University of Western Sydney. You can find the link to the booklet and more details on their website:

http://www.uws.edu.au/research/nforce/projects/2006

Just click on the link - Family Information Booklet.

Just a note, the booklet is really helpful, but some may find the booklet a little distressing, so please be sure to read the introduction, particularly:

Some information provided in this booklet may be distressing to you. Please take this booklet home with you to read, and talk over any issues you may have about dementia with your General Practitioner or other health professional. It may also help you to discuss any concerns you have with a close family member or friend.

Many thanks to Jo (zonkjonk) for posting the original link!

 

[Brucie]

Some useful Dementia publications from Oz

Professor Chang and her team from the University of Western Sydney in Australia have produced some most useful publications.

If you go to this url:

http://uws.edu.au/fach/fach/projects2/projects_2006/_nocache [link updated]

you will see [with other things] this:



Select the poster and there is a good example of a path through dementia, related to MMSE scores.



Select the Family Information Booklet and you will see 44 pages of useful information.



I have contacted the Professor to ask permission to use her work and she has agreed, stipulating only that it is accessed using the link above, because that will always show the most up to date version.

Always remember that cases of dementia vary a lot between people, so the information - particularly in the poster - may not reflect your own experience.

I will eventually move this thread to Resources but I think it will reach more members here.

 

[connie]

Thank you Bruce. There is some really useful information there.

 

[Skye]

Bruce, your link no longer appears to work.

I navigated to the poster, which is excellent, and this is the link to the research page:

http://www.uws.edu.au/fach/n-force/projects_2006

Moderator note: you will find links at http://uws.clients.squiz.net/n-force/fach/projects2/projects_2006