Background: The National Dementia Action Plan highlights the importance of early access to dementia reablement. Yet despite freely available resources to support practice, Australians living with dementia continue to face barriers in accessing dementia reablement. Through a series of work involving clinical audit and feedback, scoping review, and Delphi survey (with people living with dementia, family/friend carers, allied health practitioners, program managers, academics, experts/thought leaders), we developed a nationally relevant dementia reablement implementation guide. The aim of this study is to pilot the new guide to support implementation of dementia reablement in real-world practice. Methods: Using a hybrid implementation-effectiveness pilot design, we recruited 5 community allied health teams (SA, NSW, QLD, NT). In phase 1 (implementation preparation), the allied health teams used the implementation guide to identify strengths and opportunities in their service, and selected relevant strategies (e.g. education, adapting work flows) to prepare for implementation. In phase 2 (active implementation), participating teams offered reablement to all clients with dementia (or suspected dementia) and in parallel, invited clients to participate in the research. Results and Conclusions: Participating allied health teams are now delivering dementia reablement as part of routine care and services in phase 2 (active implementation). Using data from phase 1 (implementation preparation), participants at this presentation will gain insight into ‘what does it take’ to implement evidence-informed dementia reablement in community aged care in Australia. These outcomes will provide vital real-world insights into the connection between research with practice to improve the experience of Australians living with dementia.