These resources will help you gain a better understanding
of caring for people with cognitive impairment.
Please also print and share these resources to help raise awareness.
This guide is for people with cognitive impairment, carers, families and support people. It provides information about keeping you safe and supported when you are in hospital and other healthcare environments.
This book tells you about your right to health care that is good, safe, and supported.
The caring for cognitive impairment infographic summarises the risks of harm and highlights that individuals, health service organisations and supporting organisations and supporting organisations can all make a difference.
The caring for patients with dementia in hospital infographic summarises the risks of harm for patients with dementia and highlights ways to improve their hospital care.
The delirium infographic highlights that delirium is common in hospitals and is associated with increased risks of harm. It can be downloaded and used as a poster to raise awareness.
This infographic is targeted at reducing inappropriate use of antipsychotics. It summarises why this is such an important issue for people with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) across multiple healthcare settings.
The delirium Clinical Care Standard poster provides key steps for treatment and prevention of delirium in hospitals. Click the links to view the Delirium Clinical Care Standard Consumer Factsheet and Clinician Factsheet.
This information sheet describes a system for caring for cognitive impairment.
You can print this out as an A3 poster, write your message, take a photo, upload under "stories" or email cognitive.impairment@safetyandquality.com.au
Add this to your signature block, with a link to cognitivecare.gov.au
The campaign has its own hashtag.
