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This module draws together the learnings from modules 1-8 and leads you through planning care and implementing strategies that will lead to optimal care for patients with any form of cognitive impairment.Popular topics: Behaviour
The changes in the brain which occur in dementia affect people in different ways. These changes can lead to a person living with dementia behaving differently to how they may have behaved in the past. Sometimes people may have difficulty verbally communicating their needs, resulting in frustration, pain or distress, for example, being expressed through their behaviour.
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This module introduces you to the basic neuropathology of dementia and the responsive behaviours associated with dementia.Online course
We consider the nature of aggressive behaviour and how identifying the underlying issues allows interventions to be trialled. Caring for someone from a culturally and linguistically diverse background who is living with dementia is explored through case study.Online course
This module explores the characteristics of depression and anxiety in the context of dementia and the cultural considerations when caring for people with dementia from an Indigenous background.Online course
Using a case study, we describe wandering in the context of dementia, explore how to use tools and models to assess it and strategies to trial.Online course
This module steps you through the methods and processes you can use to identify whether a particular intervention has been effective, and how effective it has been. We use agitation as an example.Online course
This module steps you through how you can use a person-centred approach to design an appropriate system of intervention for someone exhibiting changed behaviour.Online course
This module introduces changed behaviours, the concept of behaviour communicating needs and how using frameworks can help you to address them.