Environments: Introduction
A series of virtual classrooms to accompany the "Creating supportive environments for people living with dementia" online course.
Suitable for people working in:
Acute / hospital health care and Residential aged care
Overview
About this Workshop
A series of virtual classrooms to accompany the "Creating supportive environments for people living with dementia" online course. An Environments Educator will work closely with an Action Group from your site, explaining how a physical environment can increase or decrease the disability created by healthy ageing, dementia or other causes of frailty. Your team will be supported to analyse the impact of a room on social activity, orientation and perception and suggest potential improvements to address them.Learning Outcomes
Staff will be able to demonstrate that they can:
- Provide a basic explanation of what dementia is and how it affects a person’s daily life and function
- Explain how buildings affect our perception and behaviour
- By completing this virtual classroom, staff will be able to identify an enabling environment through understanding the importance of: Environments supporting perception, orientation, and the management of stimuli
- Access to and movement around the outdoors
- Providing smaller size groups, such as household models
- Maintaining connections to the community
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Benefits of Learning with DTA
- Increase your knowledge of dementia
- Ongoing access to review course content
- Real life examples to help you put knowledge into practice
- Learn anytime, anywhere
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Version history
- Published: 01 Mar 2024
- Version: 1.0