Online Dementia Modules

The recognition of pain for direct care workers

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

What are responsive behaviours?

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

Introduction to LGBTI people

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

Why environments matter

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.

• Residential Care
• Acute Care
• Mixed

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

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

• Acute Care
• Primary Care

Recognising Dementia in General Practice

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

• Primary Care

Recognition of Pain

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

Introduction to appropriate use of benzodiazepines and other sedatives

Learn to balance the risks and benefits of using benzodiazepines and other sedatives in people living with dementia.

• Residential Care
• Primary Care
• Community Care

Neuropathology

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

• Acute Care
• Primary Care

The brain and dementia

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.

• Residential Care
• Community Care
• Respite Care

Assessments and interventions for responsive behaviours

Understand wandering as a responsive behaviour. Learn about responsive behaviours, their causes, and gathering information that informs interventions to help a person living with dementia feel more comfortable and content.

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

Polypharmacy

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

Understanding sleep

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

Understanding the limited role of using antipsychotics

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...

• Residential Care
• Respite Care

Dementia Discovery: Understanding the brain and dementia

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

Dementia Discovery: Alzheimer’s disease

This brief module focuses on changes in the brain that may be related to Alzheimer's disease.

• Residential Care
• Community Care
• Mixed
• Respite Care

Assessing pain for direct care workers

This module will explore how to assess pain in people living with dementia who are not able to report their pain.

• Residential Care
• Primary Care
• Community Care
• Mixed
• Respite Care
• Palliative Care

Lived experiences past and present

You will learn about the shared history that older LGBTI people have lived through, as well as well as deepening your appreciation for each individual's own set of unique experiences...

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

Exploring good places to live

Learn how to establish a vision for a way of life, support smaller-scale living and encourage movement outside to gardens.

• Residential Care
• Acute Care
• Mixed

Diagnosing Dementia in General Practice

This module explores the early warning signs of dementia and a framework for making a diagnosis of dementia.

• Primary Care