This topic helps you deliver tailored falls prevention education with the person living with dementia and/or their care partners. Participants will learn a novel approach using rhyme and imagery to...
- Type
- Toolkit
- Tier
- Foundational
- Duration
- 20 mins
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This topic explores how a person’s home environment can be assessed and adapted, so people living with dementia can stay safely at home.Throughout the session, you and your team will follow the story...
- Type
- Toolkit
- Tier
- Foundational
- Duration
- 20 mins
This topic explores how communication changes in dementia can affect a person’s ability to stay socially engaged and connected, and how simple strategies can help.Throughout the session, you and your...
- Type
- Toolkit
- Tier
- Foundational
- Duration
- 20 mins
This module deepens understanding of how past and ongoing trauma, including loss of land, language, and family, affects the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples...
- Type
- Online module
- Tier
- Foundational
- Duration
- 1 hr
This module helps multicultural aged care workers draw on their cultural strengths as a basis for developing culturally safe dementia care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Type
- Online module
- Tier
- Foundational
- Duration
- 1 hr
This workshop introduces dementia, focusing on how the brain is affected and how these changes influence behaviour. Participants will explore the critical role of communication and the impact of pain...
- Type
- Workshop
- Tier
- Foundational
- Duration
- 5 hrs
In this module, you will learn what cultural safety means and how to review your own work practices through a cultural safety lens. You will plan one practical action to strengthen cultural safety in...
- Type
- Online module
- Tier
- Foundational
- Duration
- 1 hr
In this course, you will learn about dementia as a syndrome and its impact on Australia, how to recognise dementia and cognitive impairment, and how it progresses over time. You will also have access...
- Type
- Program
- Tier
- Foundational
This course aims to raise awareness, change attitudes, and present evidence for the need and provision of rehabilitation as part of post diagnostic care for all people with dementia and their care...
- Type
- Online course
- Tier
- Foundational
- Duration
- 10 hrs
This resource provides an outline of applicable Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item codes applicable to the diagnostic pathway for the assessment and management of dementia. It covers initial...
- Type
- Tool
- Tier
- Foundational
A comprehensive guide to essential dementia resources for General Practice. Quick links to reputable organisations, RACGP resources and a selection of validated cognitive screening tools. This...
- Type
- Tool
- Tier
- Foundational
This checklist outlines causes of delirium, what to look out for, guidance on what to do and contacts for further advice. This is a downloadable resource for you to apply in practice.
- Type
- Tool
- Tier
- Advanced Practice/Expertise
Practical tools and suggestions are provided throughout the checklist serving as a useful resource for GPs. This is a downloadable resource for you to apply in practice.
- Type
- Tool
- Tier
- Advanced Practice/Expertise
This resource provides an outline of potential activities to cover during appointments for a person with cognitive change. It covers initial history, cognitive assessment, examination, investigation...
- Type
- App
- Tier
- Foundational
This virtual classroom session will assist residential care staff to identify the need for and implement the behaviour support plan. Participants will be given an overview of the ABC approach when...
- Type
- Workshop
- Tier
- Enhanced Practice
- Duration
- 1 hr 30 mins
There is a growing awareness of the potential over- and inappropriate use of psychotropic medicines, such as antipsychotics and other sedatives, in older people, especially those with dementia. DTA...
- Type
- Program
- Tier
- Enhanced Practice