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.

This module is part of the course(s):
Suitable for people working in:
All care settings
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Online Module

  • Tier
    Foundational
  • Module 1
  • Completion time
    40 mins
  • Module duration
    1 week
  • Certificate of completion
  • Cost
    Free 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

This module is part of the course: Walking Safely With Dementia. For CPD information relating to this module specifically, please refer to the course overview.

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.

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Version history

  • Published: 24 Jan 2022
  • Updated: 07 Apr 2025
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