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Best Practice Interventions for Unmet Needs in Dementia

For health and aged care staff, understanding and responding to changed behaviour isn’t always easy, and determining the most effective and appropriate strategies to use when caring for people living with dementia can be challenging.

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The Art and Science of Caregiving Associated with Dementia and Incontinence

Advances in our knowledge of bladder and bowel function and treatment over the last 20 years have focused on interventions to minimise or alleviate symptoms, rather than the art and science of continence caregiving, which remain deeply rooted in tradition and routine.

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Changed Behaviours Associated with Dementia Utilising a Stepwise Patient Centred Approach to Management

The webinar will provide GPs and health professionals with a structured approach to assessment of behaviours and their management.

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Medication Management in Aged Care Quality and Safety

This webinar addresses strategies to promote the safe and effective use of medication in residential aged care.

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A Structured Approach to Managing Dementia in General Practice

This recorded webinar, the third in a series of webinars on dementia, has been designed to provide GPs and nurses with a layered chronic disease management approach to supporting patients with dementia.

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Human Flourishing, Bringing New Meaning to Living with Dementia

Person-centred dementia care. What does it really mean for persons living with dementia, their care partners and care workers?

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Environment Activity Cards – Ideas to spark conversation at work

The DTA Environment Activity Cards aim to spark conversations among staff, residents and visitors about residential aged care and retirement living buildings.

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Resources to Support the Care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Living with Dementia

Older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are more likely to develop dementia, and experience barriers to accessing the supports and services they need, compared to other Australians.

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Decision Making Ability, Capacity, and Competency: What they are and How to Assess Them in Persons Living With Dementia?

Join Dr Jason Karlawish in this webinar which focuses on the impact on decision making.

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Developing Behavioural Interventions to Manage Responsive Behaviours

Behavioural symptoms of dementia can be disturbing to a person living with dementia and challenging for carers to respond to effectively.

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Caring for People Who Wander

Carers of people living with dementia who wander and live in the community have reported that they experience anxiety and burden associated with the fear that the people living with dementia could become lost or injured while walking independently.

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The Possibility Oriented Approach

A guide to using the Hierarchic Dementia Scale-Revised (HDS-R) to identify abilities and limitations for people living with dementia.

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Common Medicines That May Affect Cognition

This set of 4 Quick Reference Cards summarises commonly prescribed medicines in Australian residential aged care that may adversely affect cognition.

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How Dementia Affects the Brain and the Person

Developed in collaboration with Dementia Australia Victoria, this presentation discusses how the brain works and the relationship between physiological damage to the brain caused by dementia and the changes experienced by people living with dementia.

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Changed Behaviour Quick Reference Cards

The Quick Reference Cards are designed as an on-the-spot point of reference for health professionals and care staff working with people with dementia, to help address changed behaviour.

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Sexualities and Dementia

The Sexualities and Dementia Education Resource assists health professionals understand the meaning and functions of sexuality for people living with dementia.

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