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.
Online module
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TierFoundational
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Module 1
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Completion time40 mins
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Module duration1 week
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Certificate of completion
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CostFree for Australian workers
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Module Overview
About this Module
This module provides context for wandering as a responsive behaviour with an overview of dementia and responsive behaviours. You will learn how to take a structured approach to identifying and assessing behaviours and use this information to plan appropriate interventions.Learning Outcomes
After completing this module, staff should be able to:
- Describe changed behaviours and the reasons people living with dementia experience them.
- Identify some commonly used models to assess and determine why a person’s specific changed behaviour occurs.
- Describe types of interventions that may reduce or avoid changed behaviours.
Module Details
Continuing Professional Development
A completion certificate for CPD credit is awarded upon successful completion of this module.
Acknowledgements
The Walking Safely course was developed by Assoc Professor Margaret MacAndrew, Yvonne Wilkinson, Professor Elizabeth Beattie, Sandra Jeavons, and Elizabeth Miles at Queensland University of Technology. The authors would like to thank the Advisory Committee for their invaluable contribution to the development of this resource.Learn with DTA
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Version history
- Published: 24 Jan 2022
- Updated: 12 Jul 2024
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