The Dementia-Friendly Home: a video guide
The Dementia-Friendly Home interactive video gives you practical tips to make your home safer and more accessible for people living with dementia.
Solutions for safety and independence
For people living with dementia, everyday activities can get harder. But you can help.
A dementia-friendly home is a place where changes have been made that make it easier for someone with dementia to be safe and enabled.
You can make simple changes to make your home more dementia-friendly and safe.
Small improvements add up
The video guide is free and easy to use. Just click a room and explore the hotspots: each one will give you practical ideas for small, inexpensive improvements you can make.
Those little changes add up to a home that is easier to understand, navigate and use for people living with dementia.
Watch the Dementia-Friendly Home interactive video
The Dementia-Friendly Home was developed by Dementia Australia and generously supported by the Arcare Family Foundation.
Feedback on the guide
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Read our Dementia-Friendly Home tips
Click below to see our Dementia-Friendly Home tips in written form.
More Dementia-Friendly Home help
Dementia Australia has free information sessions and services to help you make your home more dementia-friendly.
Dementia-friendly home information sessionsThese free sessions provide information about dementia and the likely impact of the symptoms on a person’s perception of, and ability to successfully navigate, their home environment.
Guidance for living at home with dementiaThere are a lot of ways to make your home more dementia-friendly, but it can be hard to do it all on your own. Our ‘At Home with Dementia’ program is here to help.
More support from Dementia Australia
The National Dementia HelplineCall 1800 100 500 for free and confidential expert information, advice and support, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Chat live with usChat with a Dementia Australia expert Advisor via live messaging, free and confidentially, for information and support. We’re available 24/7, every day of the year.
