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Dementia Training Australia is offering a new online course for shift workers who care at night for people with dementia.
Enrolments are now open for the course, Bedtime to Breakfast, which explores:
The course aims to help night carers provide ‘salutogenic’, person-centred care. Course developer and DTA Knowledge Translation Manager Belinda Goodenough said: “A salutogenic approach is one that focuses on health and wellbeing.
“In a night care context, this may mean planning ahead to ensure things like safe lighting, reduced noise and soothing activities, as well as respecting individual sleep preferences.
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“These are important strategies to have, because we know people with dementia can spend up to 40 per cent of their bedtime hours awake.” Other DTA e-learning courses on offer in February are:
Bedtime to Breakfast was developed in partnership with Life Care. DTA courses are short, mobile-friendly, and cost free to the learner. For more information, visit dta.com.au
A website created to share stories of good practice and encourage reflection and creative thinking to achieve good person-centred practice in older adult care.
Dementia Training Australia (DTA) continues to develop its range of online courses with six new courses aimed at the dementia care workforce.