• About Us
    • Our People
    • Our Wellington network
    • Contact
    • FAQ
  • Guidance and projects
  • Best Practice Resources
    • In general practice
      • Professional development education
      • Driving safety
      • Regional Health Pathways
      • Dementia friendly general practice
    • In hospitals
      • Person-centered hospital care
      • Dementia friendly hospital design
    • In residential care
      • Person-centered residential care
      • Dementia friendly residential care design
      • Sexuality in residential care
    • In community services
      • Home-based support
      • Allied health
      • Emergency services
      • Non-health services
    • In research, advocacy, and policy
      • Principles
      • NZ policies
      • Relevant NZ organisations
    • Supporting awareness
      • Reducing risk
      • Reducing stigma
    • Support around diagnosis
      • Importance of early diagnosis
      • Support after diagnosis
      • Advance care planning
    • Supporting wellbeing
      • Cognitive wellbeing
      • Physical wellbeing
      • Pychosocial wellbeing
    • Supporting advanced dementia and end of life
      • People living with advanced dementia
      • Palliative care and end of life
    • Supporting cultural diversity
      • Supporting Māori
      • Supporting culturally and linguistically diverse people
    • Supporting diverse needs
      • Gender and sexual minorities
      • Younger onset
      • Intellectual disability
  • NZ Research Radar
    • Numbers and trends
      • Prevalence and economic impact
      • Awareness and attitudes
      • Workforce and services
    • Cognitive and brain changes
      • Prevention, risks, and causes
      • Neurological processes
      • Cognitive changes
    • Assessment and diagnosis
      • Diagnosing dementia
      • Driving and capacity
      • Assessment tools
    • Experience and challenges
      • Living with dementia
      • Diverse experiences
      • Health challenges in dementia
      • Death and dying with dementia
    • Support and supporters
      • Interventions and activities
      • Medication
      • Care-partners
      • Professional care and staff training
  • Knowledge Exchange
    • Our Webinars
      • Covid and care webinar
    • Our Blogs
      • All Guest Blogs
    • Our Newsletters
    • Events
    • Brain health tips
      • January: Hearing
      • February: Smoking
      • March: Healthy weight
      • April: Depression
      • May: Exercise
      • June-Glucose
      • July: Social connection
      • August: Alcohol
      • September: Sleep
      • October:Diet
      • November: Blood pressure
      • December: avoid head injury
  • Mini-ACE
  • Dementia STARs
  • Dementia Ecosystem
    • Overview
    • Dementia Mate Wareware Leadership and Advisory Group
      • Leadership Group Newsletters
    • Dementia Mate Wareware Network
      • Network meeting 1
    • Sign Up
  • 2023calendar
    • Activities not tasks
    • Senses
  • Login
  • Join
  • Donate
  • Login
New Zealand Dementia Foundation
  • Join Donate

Best Practice Links

Supporting Physical Wellbeing

 

Think delirium
Author:
CDHB / South Island Alliance (NZ)
Description:
A suite of resources aimed at increasing awareness of the potential to reduce delirium with posters, and staff tips booklets, tips booklets for families, and  guided capability self-reflection self-reflections for team leaders, with versions for acute hospital and for residential care /community. 
Link
Delirium Awareness and management: Delirium superimposed on dementia
Author:
#Deliriumready, NHS (UK)
Description:
A 4 minute video to raise the awareness about recognising and managing delirium in people living with dementia.
Link
How would I know? What can I do? How to help someone with dementia who is in pain or distress
Author:
The National Council for Palliative Care (UK)
Description:
This is a great practical brief booklet on spotting and helping pain in people living with dementia.
Link
See change: Think pain
Author:
King's Fund (UK)
Description:
The “See Change: Think Pain” awareness campaign for carers and healthcare professionals to help identify pain in people with dementia includes a simple mnemonic to assist carers:

Pick up on mood changes
Assess verbal cues
Inspect facial expressions
Notice body language

Video   Report
Optimising food and nutritional care for people with dementia
Author:
Ageing and Dementia Research Centre Bournemouth University (UK)
Description:
The toolkit developed by the ADRC provides freely available resources (a film, workbook, guide and leaflet) to deliver person-centred nutritional care in dementia.
Link
Nutrition and dementia: A review of available research
Author:
Alzheimers Disease International, 2014 (UK)
Description:
A report to investigate how the right nutrition can help to make life better for people who live with dementia. 
Link
Eating well: supporting older people and older people with dementia. Practical guide
Author:
Caroline Walker Trust (UK)
Description:
The aim of this practical guide is to support all those who help older people and older people with dementia to eat well. It provides practical guidance about the nutritious food and drinks, including for adapted diets.
Link
Ongoing Medical Management to Maximize Health and Well-being for Persons Living With Dementia
Author:
Mary Guerriero Austrom, Malaz Boustani, and Michael A LaMantia, 2018 (US)
Description:
This article provides eight practice recommendations intended to promote understanding and support of the role of nonphysician care providers in educating family caregivers about ongoing medical management to improve the wellbeing of persons living with dementia.
Link
Dementia rarely travels alone: living with dementia and other conditions
Author:
All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Dementia (UK)
Description:
This report examines the scale of difficulty faced by people living with both dementia and other health conditions, and how the health and social care system can provide holistic, person-centred care and support for this growing body of people.
Link
Safer Walking and WanderSearch
Author: 
New Zealand Land Search and Rescue (LandSAR) (NZ)
Description:

WanderSearch (also known as Wandatrak in some districts) supports people living in the community who are at risk of going missing, including people living with dementia. The WanderSearch system provides at risk people with a small device that can be found by Police and trained volunteers using specialised equipment. The website also offers the Safer Walking Profile form. This is an information form designed for anyone who is at risk of going missing when walking. The form is filled in by family and kept ready to give to police to help recognise, find, and support the person if the situation arises.

Link
New Zealand Dementia Foundation Logo

Bringing dementia into focus: Supporting the dementia workforce to do their best work.

Find local support

CONTACT US

  • Level 5, Suite 1, 55 Anzac Avenue, Auckland Central, 1010

  • PO Box 9522, New Market, Auckland 1149

  • ceo@nzdementia.org

MESSAGE US

Loading
Copyright 2023 New Zealand Dementia Foundation

Responsive Website Design & Development by NetPotential | Login