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Coming to terms with dementia
- 2.1 Emotional reactions to having dementia
- 2.2 The idea of having dementia
- 2.3 Support to adjust to diagnosis
- 2.4 How you feel about yourself
- 2.5 Practice positive self-talk
- 2.6 Help for depression and anxiety
- 2.7 Family and friends’ reactions
- 2.8 Share your diagnosis, your way
- 2.9 Telling friends and family
- 2.10 Tell other health professionals
- 2.11 Tell your employer
- 2.12 Manage stigma from others
- 2.13 Manage how you do and don’t want to be treated
Managing changes
- 3.1 Managing symptoms to achieve what’s most important
- 3.2 Memory and thinking changes
- 3.3 Medications for memory and thinking changes
- 3.4 Cognitive therapies and rehabilitation
- 3.5 Strategies to help with changes to memory and thinking
- 3.6 Sensory and perceptual changes
- 3.7 Driving when you have dementia
- 3.8 Transport alternatives
- 3.9 Dementia makes activities outside home harder
- 3.10 Strategies from others for when you are out and about
- 3.11 Dementia friendly groups
- 3.12 Use therapies to help maintain your independence
- 3.13 Strategies from others to manage at home
- 3.14 Home modifications to help you live independently
- 3.15 Services which support you at home
Understanding the diagnosis
- 1.1 Information about the diagnosis will help you move forward
- 1.2 Understand the types of dementia
- 1.3 Ask the doctor for information about dementia
- 1.4 Get trustworthy, up-to-date information
- 1.5 Finding hope
- 1.6 Break down myths and stereotypes
- 1.7 Learn from others leading meaningful lives
- 1.8 The progression of dementia
- 1.9 Plan to get support
- 1.10 Plan for now and the future
- 1.11 Your children’s risk of dementia
Coming to terms with dementia
- 2.1 Strong emotions with a dementia diagnosis
- 2.2 Working through feelings is a positive step
- 2.3 When feelings threaten to overwhelm you
- 2.4 Strengthen your support networks and protect your wellbeing
- 2.5 Talking about the dementia diagnosis
- 2.6 The person with dementia won’t talk about their diagnosis
- 2.7 Reactions of family and friends to the diagnosis
- 2.8 Sharing the diagnosis with family and friends
- 2.9 Sharing the diagnosis with professionals
- 2.10 Sharing the diagnosis with employers
- 2.11 Managing how others treat you and the person you support
- 2.12 Be assertive with doctors and other professionals
- 2.13 Tell others how you want to be supported
Managing changes
- 3.1 Managing changes
- 3.2 Managing memory and thinking difficulties
- 3.3 Medications for memory and thinking difficulties
- 3.4 Managing anxiety about memory and thinking difficulties
- 3.5 Cognitive therapies and rehabilitation
- 3.6 Strategies to help with memory and thinking difficulties
- 3.7 Strategies to help with communication changes
- 3.8 Strategies to help with behaviour and personality changes
- 3.9 Helping people with dementia to stay on task
- 3.10 Helping without taking over
- 3.11 Dealing with driving
- 3.12 Supporting someone to stop driving
- 3.13 Transport alternatives
- 3.14 Managing symptoms when out and about
- 3.15 Use services to support living at home
- 3.16 Create a dementia friendly home
- 3.17 Managing symptoms at home
- 3.18 Use therapies to help people maintain independence
- 3.19 Assistive technologies at home
- 3.20 Living alone with dementia
Making plans and decisions
- 5.1 Plan for now to live well
- 5.2 Make a life plan for this year
- 5.3 Putting your life plan in to action
- 5.4 Know about support services
- 5.5 Types of Services
- 5.6 Getting services – My Aged Care
- 5.7 Getting services – National Disability Insurance Scheme
- 5.8 Getting services – Local organisations and councils
- 5.9 Ensure plans for the future are in place
- 5.10 Plan for future lifestyle, health and medical care
- 5.11 Plan your legal affairs and money
- 5.12 Sort out important documents
- 5.13 Plan for emergencies
Understanding the diagnosis
- 1.1 Information about the diagnosis will help you move forward
- 1.2 Understand the types of dementia
- 1.3 Ask your doctor for information about dementia
- 1.4 Get trustworthy, up-to-date information
- 1.5 The progression of young-onset dementia
- 1.6 Finding hope
- 1.7 Break down myths and stereotypes
- 1.8 Learn from others leading meaningful lives
- 1.9 Plan to get support
- 1.10 Plan to get support for children of people with young-onset dementia
- 1.11 Plan for now and the future
- 1.12 Your children’s risk of dementia
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Welcome to the new look, updated Forward with Dementia website
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Update on anti-amyloid therapies
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Cognitive Stimulation Therapy
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Medication update: Donanemab
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Cooking up a storm
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Final Forward with Dementia newsletter
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Singing the praises of … singing!
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Internet-delivered intervention improves older adult cognition
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Finding culturally appropriate support after diagnosis
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Medication update: Lecanemab
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How to best survive the heat (and humidity) this summer
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What can an Occupational Therapist do for you?
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When it’s not actually dementia
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A healthy diet for hearts and minds
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Dementia and environmental design
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Introducing the PPA Guide
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Face Dementia’s General Practice Improvement Program
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Results show improvement in communication of dementia diagnosis
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Supporting communication with people living with dementia
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Berry good news for brain health
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Launch of Face Dementia project
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An ‘exercise snack’?
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Donanemab – the third new Alzheimer’s Disease treatment under development
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International experiences of post-diagnostic support
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Influenza and dementia
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Improving the Forward with Dementia website
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April Falls Prevention
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Advance Care Planning week
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Epilepsy and dementia
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Rare Diseases Day: Frontotemporal dementia
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BeConnected webinars and staying safe online
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Getting organised at home
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LGBTIQ+ and dementia
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Medication update: Lecanemab
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Supported Decision Making for people living with dementia
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Tips for coping with the festive season
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Social inclusion for people living with dementia
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Sleep, wellbeing and dementia: New research
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New post-diagnostic support program in the ACT – SPICE
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Nutrition and dementia
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Dementia Alliance International Peer-to-Peer Support Groups
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Older Adult Mental Health Week
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Meet the Australian Research Team
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Women’s Health Week
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Speech pathology after a dementia diagnosis
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Support to stay at home following a dementia diagnosis
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Stroke and dementia
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Dental health
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Libraries and people with dementia
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Gardening and people living with dementia
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Diabetes and dementia
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Alcohol and dementia
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Stay in control of your continence
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Dementia awareness in Men’s Health Week
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Music and dementia
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Art and people living with dementia
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Exercise right to boost your brain health
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The importance of families in dementia diagnosis and support
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Dementia and driving
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Celebrating nurses in dementia care
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Top tips from our expert panel
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Aducanumab (Aduhelm)
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Parkinson’s disease and related dementias
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Intergenerational playgroups: Benefits for people with dementia
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It’s time to plan for the future
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Services for people with dementia from CALD communities
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Dementia resource and services for Indigenous Australians
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Time to plan for now!
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New research to help people access dementia-friendly eye tests
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Webinar: Navigating the system, finding supports after diagnosis
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Natural disasters and people living with dementia
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Hearing Awareness Week: Time to get your hearing checked!
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Showcasing the Museum of Love and the Celebrate Ageing Program
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How your GP and practice nurse can help
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Keeping active and social while raising funds and awareness
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Medication Review: Watch out for Anticholinergics
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Reducing the risk of vascular dementia
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Options to help keep you socially and mentally active online
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Options for keeping physically active at home
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New habits for the new year
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A tribute to Dr Hasegawa
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Time Travelling with Technology
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Surviving the festive season
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I-HARP: Improving dementia outcomes through at-home care
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Showcasing the COPE program
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Dementia Reframed
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Social inclusion for people living with dementia
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Get involved and help us improve Forward with Dementia
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One step ahead: the iReadi program
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Emotional reactions to having dementia
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Busting myths to combat stigma
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Travel for people living with dementia
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Webinar: Rethinking support after dementia diagnosis
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Improving the dementia diagnosis experience
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Getting back into life and routine after COVID lockdown
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Webinar: Rethinking the dementia diagnosis conversation
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Celebrating carers
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Launch of Forward with Dementia Australia
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Aducanumab: Is the new drug for Alzheimer’s disease a cure?
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