Online Dementia Modules

Choose individual dementia modules, based on your areas of interest. Modules are short, and can be completed in any order.

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Module 1

The view from here (residential care)

The brain and dementia

40 mins

Novice

This module introduces you to the changes that occur in the brain of a person with dementia and the impact of these changes on the person.

Respite Care
Community Care
Residential Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1

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Too much of a good thing

Polypharmacy

30 mins

Expert

Expand your understanding of why older people living with dementia so often use multiple medicines, and why this can be a problem.

Residential Care
Acute Care
Primary Care
Community Care
Respite Care
Palliative Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 2 3 6 7

A stages and domains approach to recognising and diagnosing dementia in general practice

Module 1

Demystifying Dementia

A stages and domains approach to recognising and diagnosing dementia in general practice

1 hour

Novice

This module describes the stages and domains approach to recognising and diagnosing dementia in general practice

Acute Care
Primary Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 2

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Dementia discovery

Dementia Discovery: Understanding the brain and dementia

30 mins

Novice

Using video and animation, this DTA micro-course gives an introduction to the brain, as a foundation for understanding causes of dementia.

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Sleep matters

Understanding sleep

20 mins

Novice

Improve your understanding about the importance of sleep, the brain and sleep and the problems that can arise with poor or disrupted sleep.

Residential Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 2 3 4

Module 1

Caring for LGBTI people

Introduction to LGBTI people

45 mins

Novice

This module explores the sexual diversities within the Australian population.

Residential Care
Acute Care
Primary Care
Community Care
Mixed
Respite Care
Palliative Care
Emergency Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 3

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Understanding responsive behaviours

What are responsive behaviours?

30 mins

Enhanced

This module introduces responsive behaviours, the concept of behaviour communicating needs and how using frameworks can help you to address them.

Residential Care
Primary Care
Community Care
Mixed
Respite Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 2 3

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Pain for direct care workers

The recognition of pain for direct care workers

1 hour

Novice

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.

Residential Care
Primary Care
Community Care
Mixed
Respite Care
Palliative Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 3

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Creating supportive environments for people living with 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.

Mixed
Acute Care
Residential Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 5

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Bedtime to breakfast

Understanding sleep and dementia

45 mins

Novice

Explore sleep from the perspective of the person with dementia, and the experience of living in residential aged care at night.

Residential Care
Acute Care
Primary Care
Community Care
Mixed

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 3

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Medication management

Dementia and responsive behaviours

30 mins

Novice

This lesson includes a brief review of dementia and responsive behaviours, and gives examples of appropriate support options for a person with dementia who is experiencing responsive behaviours.

Residential Care
Respite Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 3

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Salutogenic Person-Centred Care

10 mins

Novice

This short module explores a salutogenic person-centred approach to dementia care.

Mixed

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Dementia in general practice

Recognising Dementia in General Practice

40 mins

Enhanced

In this module strategies to recognise and manage dementia in General Practice will be examined.

Primary Care

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The view from here - acute care

Neuropathology

40 mins

Enhanced

This module introduces you to the basic neuropathology of dementia and the responsive behaviours associated with dementia.

Acute Care
Primary Care

Module 1

The Pain puzzle

Recognition of Pain

40 mins

Enhanced

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

Residential Care
Acute Care
Community Care
Mixed

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 2 3

Module 2

Understanding responsive behaviours

Identifying and collecting information

30 mins

Enhanced

Introducing the key questions and practices that are part of a comprehensive behaviour assessment, with a focus on vocally disruptive behaviour (VDB).