In this module, you will learn how multicultural aged care workers can draw on their cultural strengths to develop culturally safe dementia care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Modules
Choose individual dementia modules, based on your areas of interest. Modules are short, and can be completed in any order.
You will explore practical approaches to applying person-centred and trauma-informed care when supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples living with dementia, using real-world examples, reflective activities, and scenario-based learning to strengthen your confidence, communication, and cultural responsiveness in daily care settings.
You will learn how past and ongoing trauma—including loss of land, language, and family—impacts the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living with dementia.
You will learn what cultural safety means and how to critically reflect on your own work practices through a cultural safety lens. You will also develop a practical action plan to strengthen cultural safety in your day-to-day work or within your organisation.
This short online learning module will introduce you to delirium. You'll learn what delirium is and what it looks like.
This short module looks at some things you can do to understand why a person responds with behaviour change and what you can do to prevent these situations happening again in the future.
In this short session, we'll learn about why these behaviour changes happen, the impact of your communication on the person and more helpful communication strategies you can use to avoid escalation. By understanding what's going on, we can help to reduce distress for both the person and you.
This module describes the stages and domains approach to recognising and diagnosing dementia in general practice.
In this module you will continue to work through the case study to illustrate a suggested approach for introducing, monitoring and withdrawing a regular antipsychotic.
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 when non-pharmacological (non-medicine) strategies have proven unsuccessful.
Two case studies give you the chance to practise assessing wandering behaviour in a person living with dementia and developing a care plan based on the assessment and learnings from modules 1 and 2.
This module focuses on wandering as a behavioural symptom of dementia. We explore assessment tools and interventions specific to this responsive behaviour.
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.
Work through two case studies to develop an appropriate plan for managing a benzodiazepine and/or other sedative medication prescribed for a person living with dementia.
Learn to balance the risks and benefits of using benzodiazepines and other sedatives in people living with dementia.
Learn about the target responsive behaviours that benzodiazepines and other sedative medications are commonly prescribed for.
Work through two case studies to develop an appropriate plan for withdrawing a benzodiazepine and/or other sedative medication for a person living with dementia.
Learn to set up a project run by an Action Group, review a building with our assessment tool and write an Action Plan.
Learn how to establish a vision for a way of life, support smaller-scale living and encourage movement outside to gardens.
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.
This module raises awareness of person-centred pain management and the importance of pain evaluation
This module will explore how to assess pain in people living with dementia who are not able to report their pain.
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.
Learn about some specific strategies that nurses and carers can use to help older people in their care sleep better.