Cue Cards for Dementia Care

Your cards are good, and I applaud you for attempting to provide additional resources to people who are struggling with the care of a loved one or patients. However, I need to stress the importance of a speech therapy evaluation in this instance. Our job is to determine the best mode of communication for patients. For example, some patients no longer have the eye sight for detailed pictures, and need large print icons. Conversely, some patients don’t understand the abstract nature of icons, and need pictures. And how many pictures/icons can the patient use before becoming visually overwhelmed? If presented with too many choices, it can increase agitation. It is a speech therapist’s job to work through all of that, and more. You have such great resources here, please just know your speech therapists are a resource for everyone, also. We are here to support not only patients, but caregivers.

So amazed and thankful that we have this site to get great resources we need. One of my resident lost her speech and couldn't communicate. I found this clue card I'm looking for to use for her. So happy! Thank you very much Golden Carers!!!

I appreciate that you were offering this information. I wondered why black and white images are preferred. Perhaps it's because it's the simplicity of the design. And the cost for printing. I just wondered what the diagnostic reason was.

One thing is that they can't be saved as separate pages. I'll have to print them and scan them and then place them in the document.

Again thanks for your help.

I have started to use these with patients on a psycho-geriatric ward. I feel that how the patient is feeling is so open to misinterpretation by medical staff simply because useful communication tools have not been considered. These cards are an amazing start in an attempt to break down some of the communication barriers however encouraging medical staff to get on board is unfortunately the main challenge. Can anyone recommend even more communication cue cards that might be available. So simple but soon effective. Many Thanks.

I have been using these cue cards and they are excellent.

I would like to fine sentence in other languages. Does anyone have any ideas or where I could get this

There are 40+ languages available here https://www.easternhealth.org.au/services/language-services/cue-cards/item/152 in 2 different formats.

And our library has a wide range of communication cards and guides at https://library.mac.org.au we often recommend lifestyle workers to borrow the product from us to trial it, before purchasing it, as many of the products on the market can be quite pricey!

These are awesome and perfect for my client who has Parkinson's and difficulty verbally communicating his needs in the middle of the night. Thank you so much for sharing these with us!

Only today my boss asked me to source and make cue cards for a Russian resident who has recently come to the high care facility where I work, she is in advanced stage of dementia and already reverted back to her native language of Russian, within days another resident joins us and she's German! This sight is amazing! Hopefully these residents' lives will be enriched and their ability to communicate to me their needs, easier! Thank you so much

Great, thanks heaps they are perfect just what i was looking for

This site has over 50 language cue cards in several formats. I print and laminate and then hole punch and put a ring binder for easy use.

http://www.healthtranslations.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcht.nsf/PresentDetail?Open&s=Cue_Cards

Hi everyone, we have a great set of Italian language ones also available on our website which you can access for free. There are also many other resources available to share.

http://www.coasit.asn.au/cald-resources/

We are also looking at using these card for patients who have had strokes and MS and that is only the spectrum we have so far. We are going to speak to our colleagues in young adult services to see if any of their communication cards could be adapted to meet our needs and vice a versa

Great idea thanks can't wait to give it a try

Thanks everyone! Yes great feedback - the communication cards are suitable for people with hearing impairment and those from non English speaking backgrounds.

This is great...Love the idea...Thank you for sharing.

Not only for people who have dementia but people who have a hearing impairment, for people whose first language isn't English, perfect idea thank you, Well Done!

Love this idea. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for all the feedback, it is very much appreciated!

perfect idea.....thank you

Perfect....Great resource!!

This is great. I have found it hard to find good communication cards in the past but these are perfect. Well Done!

This is also quite helpful for people whose first language isn't english. We were just discussing this during our last meeting. Thank you very much for this!

Great. Thanks. Not only for people who have dementia but people who have hearing impairment would benefit from these cards. I'll talk to CNC and managers. Satomi