Down Syndrome and Dementia: A Guide for Families
This resource has been developed to inform and empower people supporting a person with Down syndrome to:
• Understand the links between lifestyle, health and dementia
• Promote healthy active living
• Support a person with Down syndrome and dementia
• Advocate for appropriate services and informed care.
Dementia and Down syndrome
Information about Dementia and Down Syndrome and the links between the two.
It’s Doctor Time! Conversation cards
Conversation cards for your visit to the doctor.
It’s Doctor Time! Social Story – Easy Read
Social story from It’s Doctor Time! which is a campaign by Inclusion Australia to encourage more people with intellectual disability to see their GP for a yearly health check. GPs sometimes call these Annual Health Assessments.
What is a Yearly Health Check? – Easy Read
Resource from It’s Doctor Time! which is a campaign by Inclusion Australia to encourage more people with intellectual disability to see their GP for a yearly health check. GPs sometimes call these Annual Health Assessments.
What is It’s Doctor Time! – Easy Read
It’s Doctor Time! is a campaign by Inclusion Australia to encourage more people with intellectual disability to see their GP for a yearly health check. GPs sometimes call these Annual Health Assessments.
It’s Doctor Time! for people with intellectual disability
It’s Doctor Time! is a campaign by Inclusion Australia to encourage more people with intellectual disability to see their GP for a yearly health check. GPs sometimes call these Annual Health Assessments.
Moss-PAS Assessment comparison
The three interviews are NOT screening tools. They each cover all the necessary symptoms, not a subset of them. There are, however, some differences between the Moss-PAS (Diag ID) and the other two (Moss-PAS (ID) and Moss-PAS (ChA)).
Medicare Benefits Scheme (MBS) items for patients with ID
MBS items for patients with intellectual disability – May 2023 (pdf 370KB)
POLAR Walkthrough
How to use POLAR to identify patients with an uncoded diagnosis of intellectual disability – YouTube
