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All dementia topics

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01

Understanding dementia

What dementia is, the common types, and what to expect over time

Residents & families Aged care staff 8 min read
02

Diagnosis and assessment

Getting the diagnosis right — and finding the reversible things first

Residents & families GPs & clinicians 9 min read
03

Changed behaviours

Understanding and responding to agitation, distress and aggression

Residents & families Aged care staff 11 min read
04

Medicines in dementia

Cognitive medicines, psychotropics, restrictive practices and deprescribing

GPs & clinicians Aged care staff Residents & families 13 min read
05

Risk reduction and brain health

What genuinely lowers dementia risk — and what the trials actually showed

Residents & families GPs & clinicians 12 min read
06

Supplements and dementia

What the evidence actually shows — a plain-language guide for families

Residents & families 15 min read
07

Emerging evidence: a clinical appraisal

Anti-amyloid therapy, GLP-1s, biomarkers and the supplement literature, appraised critically

GPs & clinicians 20 min read
08

Living well, and supporting families

Communication, legal planning, carer support and where to get help

Residents & families Aged care staff 10 min read
09

Advanced dementia and end-of-life care

A palliative approach: comfort, feeding, infection and difficult decisions

Residents & families GPs & clinicians Aged care staff 11 min read
10

Dementia care in your facility

What a dementia-capable GP service looks like, and how it maps to the Standards

Facility leadership Aged care staff 9 min read

Interventions throughout this section are graded on the strength of the evidence for the outcome that matters, not on mechanism or popularity, and numbers in the text link to the source they come from. How we grade the evidence · All 103 sources

Last full evidence review: September 2026.

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