Online Dementia Counselling Services
Alzheimer's Australia Vic's counsellors are professionally trained to provide a range of individual support, advice and practical assistance.
People who can benefit from dementia counselling include people in the early stages of dementia, carers of people with dementia, family such as spouses and adult children, friends and other significant people.
Dementia counselling can assist by:
- Gaining an understanding of the impact of dementia
- Identifying strategies for coping and living with dementia
- Planning how to care in the future when the dementia changes
- Dealing with feelings of stress and a mixture of emotions
- Helping to deal with dementia issues within families
Online dementia counselling is being offered for a trial period as part of a counselling project. This project is investigating different ways of providing counselling.
You communicate with the counsellor via text that you type onto the screen. This is a live session with no delay. While you lack the visual cues that are available in a face-to-face counselling session, the session is very private and having an ongoing record allows you to compose your thoughts.
There is no charge for this service.
If you want to book an online dementia counselling session: proceed to Registration
Otherwise, if you want to speak to someone about your dementia issues please contact: National Dementia Helpline 1800 100 500