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Dementia is a group of progressive brain disorders, Alzheimer's disease being the most common. You will learn how the main types differ, how diagnosis works, what treatments exist, and how to care for a family member while protecting your own health.

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📺YouTube(1)

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Teepa Snow's Positive Approach to Care

Books explain what is happening; these videos show exactly how to do the physical and verbal parts of care (approach, cueing, bathing), which text conveys poorly. Free video library from occupational therapist Teepa Snow demonstrating hands-on dementia care skills: approaching and communicating with a person who has dementia, bathing, dressing, handling resistance and distress, and adapting to changes across Alzheimer's, Lewy body, frontotemporal, and vascular dementia.

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🎓Courses(1)

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Understanding Dementia

Free, self-paced 21-hour online course from the University of Tasmania's Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre. Four modules move from brain changes and disease progression to diagnosis, risk factors, person-centred care, and supporting people with dementia in the community. The most rigorous free structured course on dementia: explains the neuropathology behind symptoms before moving to care, so learners understand why behaviours change.

beginner🇬🇧

📚Books(2)

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Loving Someone Who Has Dementia: How to Find Hope while Coping with Stress and Grief

A short book by family therapist Pauline Boss, who developed the concept of ambiguous loss, on the grief and stress of caring for someone who is physically present but psychologically changing. Offers guidelines for managing caregiver stress, family conflict, and self-care.

beginner🇬🇧
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The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss (8th Edition)

The standard family guide to dementia care, first published in 1981 and revised in 2025. Covers diagnosis, medical treatment, daily care, behaviour changes, legal and financial planning, care facilities, and avoiding caregiver burnout, written by a dementia educator and a Johns Hopkins psychiatrist.

beginner🇬🇧

🌐Websites(1)

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Alzheimer's and Related Dementias

The National Institute on Aging's public hub on Alzheimer's and related dementias, covering the main dementia types, symptoms and diagnosis, risk factors, FDA-approved treatments including lecanemab and donanemab, and practical caregiving guidance, reviewed by NIH scientists. Treatment page is current for the anti-amyloid era (describes lecanemab and donanemab dosing, amyloid PET/CSF testing and ARIA side effects).

beginner🇬🇧

📄Papers(1)

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Dementia Prevention, Intervention, and Care: 2024 Report of the Lancet Standing Commission

The 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission, led by Gill Livingston, synthesising evidence on 14 modifiable risk factors, diagnosis with fluid biomarkers, disease-modifying treatments, managing symptoms, and supporting people with dementia and their families. A long, heavily referenced scientific review.

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🎙️Podcasts(1)

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Dementia Matters

Podcast from the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center hosted by geriatrician Dr. Nathaniel Chin. Interviews researchers, clinicians and caregiving experts on diagnosis, blood biomarkers, new treatments, clinical trials, and caregiver wellbeing, with over 200 episodes since 2017. Keeps learners current in a fast-moving field (anti-amyloid drugs, blood tests) without hype, since guests are the researchers themselves.

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