Resources

This booklet provides an overview of the Department of Health and Aged Care’s initiatives and programs to support people living with dementia, their carers and families.

The National Dementia Action Plan 2024–2034 is Australia’s national dementia policy framework. It aims to improve the lives and care of people living with dementia, their carers and families over the next 10 years.

A framework that outlines how Australian, state and territory governments will monitor and report progress on the 8 high-level actions in the National Dementia Action Plan 2024–2034.

An overview of the National Dementia Action Plan 2024–2034, including a summary and 8 high-level actions.

A summary of the vision, purpose and actions contained in the National Dementia Action Plan 2024–2034.

This document covers the evidence on the currently recognised severe tick-induced allergies.

This document covers prevention and management of tick bites for people living in Australia.

This document covers Australian tick-borne diseases.

This document provides evidence-based guidance for clinicians in community and hospital settings, as well as providing a reference source on DSCATT topics. This Guidance Note covers overseas-acquired Lyme disease.

This document introduces the major concepts, issues and diseases and illnesses related to ticks, globally and in Australia.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Queensland Tick Typhus.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Q Fever.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Flinders Island spotted fever.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Australian spotted fever.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease.

Strategies to prevent tick bites in people/pets.

Symptoms, features and treatment of tick anaphylaxis.

Symptoms, causes, risk factors and prevention of tick paralysis.

Tick biology and tick-borne diseases.

Strategies to administer first aid for tick bites.

This document summarises preliminary findings from a study to identify possible biomarkers for Debilitating Symptom Complex Attributed to Ticks (DSCATT). The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) completed this project in July 2021.

This fact sheet provides information on Q fever in Australia.

This document outlines the evidence base underpinning the debilitating symptom complexes attributed to ticks clinical pathway.

This document supports clinicians to make diagnoses and referrals for patients presenting with chronic symptoms attributed to an unknown illness.

Australian Government response to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee final report: Inquiry into the growing evidence of an emerging tick-borne disease that causes a Lyme-like illness for many Australian patients