General

1. Abuse
2. Advocacy
3. Back care and safe lifting practices
4. Benefits and entitlements
5. Carer support groups
6. Choosing a residential placement and its emotional impact
7. Former carers
8. How to make a complaint
9. Exercising when you are a carer.
10. Assertiveness for carers
11. Benefits of Counselling

Starting caring and being a carer

Dealing with the hospital system

1. What is a carer?
2. Gradually becoming a carer
3. Suddenly becoming a carer
4. Things to consider when taking on a caring role
5. What might caring really mean for you?
6. Where should your family member live?
7. Helping your family member to remain living at home
8. Should your family member move in with you?
9. Should you move in with your family member?
10. Other accommodation options
11. Rights and responsibilities in caring for a family member
12. Aids and equipment
13. How and why to organise support services
14. Home and Community Care Services (HACC)
15. Respite care - get the break you need
16. Community care packages
17. Specialist clinics - how they can help
18. Aged care assessment
19. Financial and legal considerations - Part 1:
    enduring powers of attorney/guardianship and wills
20. Financial and legal considerations - Part 2:
    guardianship and financial management orders
21. How and why to get family to help with caring
22. How and why to hold a family meeting
23. What to do when your family member doesn't want help
24. Don't forget to make a back up plan!
25. Getting financial support

1. The hospital ward - how it works day-to-day
2. Medical staff in hospitals
3. Allied health staff in hospitals
4. Nursing and other staff in hospitals
5. Aged care assessment in hospital - what you need to know
6. Your rights in the hospital setting
7. Discharge from hospital - the options

Considering residential
care

1. Starting to think about residential care
2. Weighing it up - home or residential care?
3. How and why to hold a family meeting
4. Struggling with your feelings about residential care
5. Residential care - where to start
6. Aged care assessment
7. Financial and legal considerations - Part 1:
   enduring powers of attorney/enduring guardianship
8. Financial and legal considerations - Part 2:
   guardianship and financial management orders
9. How to find the right residential care facility
10. Why consider respite in a residential care facility?
11. Residential care paperwork and waiting lists
12. How to work out what residential care will cost
13. How to prepare for the day of admission
14. The day of admission - what to expect
15. Residential care - how it works day-to-day

1. Rights and responsibilities in residential care
2. Accreditation in residential care facilities
3. Making visiting work for you
4. How to feel comfortable at the facility
5. How to help the staff get to know your family member
6. The importance of rediscovering a life for yourself
7. How to find your new carer role in residential care
8. More opportunities for carers in residential care
9. Compliments, criticisms and dealing with conflict
10. How to make a formal complaint
11. How to deal with difficult news about your family member
12. If circumstances change, can care at home be reconsidered?
13. When a change in facility might be needed
14. What to expect when your family member is dying
15. Dealing with grief when your family member dies

1. Caring for someone with incontinence