Online Dementia Modules

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

• Respite Care
• Mixed
• 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

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

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

• Primary Care
• Acute Care

Salutogenic Person-Centred Care

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

• Mixed

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

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.

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.

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

Dementia and responsive behaviours

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.

• Respite Care
• Residential 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