This online course is designed for first responders to gain a better understanding of dementia including common symptoms and how dementia affects the brain and behaviour.
This module explores the early warning signs of dementia and a framework for making a diagnosis of dementia.
Learn how buildings affect our perception and behaviour, use the Design Principles as an evidence-base for creating supportive environments and develop tools to support transformation within places that you work.
We consider the nature of aggressive behaviour and how identifying the underlying issues allows interventions to be trialled. Caring for someone from a culturally and linguistically diverse background who is living with dementia is explored through case study.
This module raises awareness of the importance of individualised treatments, based on information gained from the comprehensive assessment. Better understand the importance of evaluating the effectiveness of treatment interventions.
Explore the ways in which community pharmacies can improve their ability to meet the needs of family carers of people living with dementia.
In this module strategies to recognise and manage dementia in General Practice will be examined.
This module raises awareness of person-centred pain management and the importance of pain evaluation
This module explores the characteristics of depression and anxiety in the context of dementia and the cultural considerations when caring for people with dementia from an Indigenous background.
This module presents a practical and systematic approach to conducting a comprehensive pain assessment.
In this module you will continue to work through the case study to illustrate a suggested approach for introducing, monitoring and withdrawing a regular antipsychotic.
Explore the most up to date advice on dementia in the General Practice setting. Various health professionals share their knowledge, experience and insights in dementia research, education and care.
This module will explore how to assess pain in people living with dementia who are not able to report their pain.
Using a case study, we describe wandering in the context of dementia, explore how to use tools and models to assess it and strategies to trial.
This module presents an overview of pain in people living with dementia and the recognition of pain in the absence of the ability to self-report
In this module you will be introduced to some DTA resources and a case study that suggests ways to support a person with dementia who is experiencing a responsive behaviour when non-pharmacological (non-medicine) strategies have proven unsuccessful.
This brief module focuses on dementia related changes and principles to bear in mind for communicating with respect and dignity.
This module provides an overview of pain and how to recognise pain in people with dementia who can’t tell us that they are in pain.
This module steps you through the methods and processes you can use to identify whether a particular intervention has been effective, and how effective it has been. We use agitation as an example.
Discover how organisations can become more LGBTI inclusive.