Explore training to support evidence-based dementia care.
The course will highlight the risks associated with using benzodiazepines and other sedatives, discuss the situations when benzodiazepines and other sedatives may be helpful in supporting a person...
This webinar will include an interactive discussion with panelists demonstrating a person-centred approach to managing dementia, while at the same time supporting family members and carers.
Learn to set up a project run by an Action Group, review a building with our assessment tool and write an Action Plan. This is module 3 in the 3-part module series: Creating Supportive Environments...
Explore why environments matter and how you can help support transformation of the places you work to better support people living with dementia.
Gain insight into the affect environments have on people living with dementia and be introduced to the design principles. This is module 1 in the 3-part module series: Creating Supportive...
This module provides an overview of pain and how to recognise pain in people living with dementia who can’t tell us that they are in pain. You will learn how to look, listen and investigate pain in...
Learn how to look, listen and investigate pain in people living with dementia who are unable to verbalise their discomfort or pain.
Explore how to assess pain in people living with dementia who may not be able to verbalise their pain.This is module 2 in the 3-part module series: Recognising and Acting on Pain in People Living...
Maximising benefit and minimising harm. Learn how you can support the deprescribing process in older people living with dementia.
Expand your understanding of why older people living with dementia so often use multiple medicines, and why this can be a problem. This is module 1 in the 2-part module series: Reducing medicines in...
Develop your knowledge of how your role can support the deprescribing process for older people living with dementia. This is module 2 in the 2-part module series: Reducing medicines in people living...
This course is designed to help you better understand how to care for a person experiencing dementia-related changed behaviour. You will be able to make a positive difference to people living with...
This module explores the presentation of dementia and its impact on the individual. This is module 3 in the 4-part module series: Recognising, Diagnosing and Managing Dementia in General Practice.
Non-pharmacological interventions that include meaningful activity and are person centred are recommended as the first line approach to address changed behaviour. This presentation will review...
Key information about medication use in dementia care at your fingertips! This App was developed using existing DTA ‘Quick reference cards’, to assist residential aged care staff working with people...
With limited guidelines carers have resorted to using extreme measures such as physical restraint and constant supervision to try to maintain safety. These reports have prompted us to review the...
