Online Dementia Modules

Rethinking rural dementia care – during COVID-19 lockdowns

COVID-19 restrictions have forced aged care providers to rethink care and support strategies for people living with dementia worldwide. This module looks at one provider’s ideas for doing this in...

• Respite Care
• Residential Care
• Community Care
• Mixed

Decision-making in dementia care

Explore some practical examples of how people with dementia may be supported in making decisions, and how staying involved with family and friends can make a big difference when it...

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

Death and dying in dementia care

What does a dignified death look like? This module shares some practical ideas for care teams supporting a person with dementia who is dying.

• Palliative Care
• Residential Care

Supporting meaningful activity in hospital

Well-chosen, personalised activities can make an enormous difference to the wellbeing of people living with dementia, especially if they are in hospital. Learn about one hospital team’s efforts to offer...

• Palliative Care
• Acute Care

Working alongside family carers to support people living with dementia

How can aged care providers work more closely with family carers of people living with dementia? This module explores a range of ideas and issues, including care planning, education and...

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

How allied health can help

Explore some practical examples of how people with dementia may be supported in making decisions, and how staying involved with family and friends can make a big difference when it...

• Mixed
• Community Care
• Primary Care
• Residential Care

Supporting diverse communities

This module focuses on the topic of how multicultural aged care providers support people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds who are living with dementia.

• Community Care
• Primary 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.

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.

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

Introduction to LGBTI people

This module explores the sexual diversities within the Australian population.

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

• Mixed
• Acute Care
• 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...

• Respite Care
• Residential Care

Recognising Dementia in General Practice

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

• Primary Care

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.

• Community Care
• Primary Care
• Residential Care

Understanding sleep and dementia

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

• Primary Care
• Community Care
• Mixed
• Acute Care
• Residential 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

• Mixed
• Community Care
• Acute Care
• Residential Care

Salutogenic Person-Centred Care

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

• Mixed

Neuropathology

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

• Primary Care
• Acute 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.

• Respite Care
• Community Care
• Residential Care

Polypharmacy

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

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