The Dementia Enablement Toolkit: Allied Health Approaches
About the Toolkit
This toolkit builds your team’s skills to support people living with dementia across four topics: Communication and Connection, Supportive Home Environments, Identifying Falls Risks, and Delivering Falls Prevention Education.
Designed for team leaders, clinical educators, and health professionals to facilitate, each topic uses best-practice, person-centred approaches based on common, real-life scenarios.
Topics in the Toolkit:
- Include everything needed to deliver the session
- Are brief, bite-sized sessions that can be delivered in 20 minutes, and in any order
- Are suitable for any care setting
Learning Outcomes
Toolkit sessions will help participants:
- Recognise how dementia affects communication, home environments and falls risk
- Apply person-centred strategies and tailored education to support safety, independence and connection for people living with dementia
- Partner with people living with dementia, their care partners and other health professionals to understand their needs and manage their risks
How to Use the Toolkit
Step 1. Watch the Toolkit Introductory Video
Watch the toolkit introductory video above to learn about the toolkit and how to use it.
Step 2. Choose Your Topic
Choose your topic and become familiar with the content. Use the facilitator guide (included on each topic page) to plan your session.
Step 3. Gather Your Resources
Make sure you have the technology you’ll need to share the interactive training tool – a laptop or tablet, a projector and screen, or a screen-sharing setup for virtual meetings. Download or print your topic’s resources and gather any other recommended items.
Step 4. Schedule Your Session
Decide when and where you’ll hold your learning session and how you’ll get people to attend.
Step 5. Run Your Session
Run the session. Afterwards, reflect on how it went and how you can follow up. Start planning your next session.
Choose a Topic
To choose your topic, click on one of the boxes below. You’ll find everything you need to run your training session.
Arjay’s Story
Follow Arjay, recently diagnosed with young onset Alzheimer’s disease, as his story guides participants through the communication changes he experiences, and the person-centred strategies that help him stay connected.
Luisa’s Story
Follow Luisa, an Italian widow who lives at home alone, as her story shows how the National Aged Care Design Principles and Guidelines can be applied to support her safety and independence.
Small Falls Matter Too
Explore falls evidence through real-life video scenarios and an interactive activity, then identify whether a fall has taken place and spot the key risk factors.
Delivering Falls Prevention Education
Safety Messages That Stick
Discover a novel, evidence-based approach to falls prevention using rhyme and imagery, then practise delivering safety messages through the stories of John, Nina and Syd, across community, residential aged care and hospital settings.