Practical tools and suggestions are provided throughout the checklist serving as a useful resource for GPs. This is a downloadable resource for you to apply in practice.
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- Tool
- Tier
- Advanced Practice/Expertise
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This resource provides an outline of potential activities to cover during appointments for a person with cognitive change. It covers initial history, cognitive assessment, examination, investigation...
- Type
- App
- Tier
- Foundational
This virtual classroom session will assist residential care staff to identify the need for and implement the behaviour support plan. Participants will be given an overview of the ABC approach when...
- Type
- Workshop
- Tier
- Enhanced Practice
- Duration
- 1 hr 30 mins
Have you ever felt overwhelmed when a person living with dementia’s behaviour escalates and they become distressed, frustrated, angry and aggressive towards you or others. It can be difficult to know...
- Type
- Online module
- Tier
- Introductory
- Duration
- 15 mins
It is likely you will have days when you are caring for a person living with dementia where things have not gone as planned. When things don’t go as well as expected, the person you care for may have...
- Type
- Online module
- Tier
- Introductory
- Duration
- 15 mins
There is a growing awareness of the potential over- and inappropriate use of psychotropic medicines, such as antipsychotics and other sedatives, in older people, especially those with dementia. DTA...
- Type
- Program
- Tier
- Enhanced Practice
The video is suitable for anyone working in a dementia care environment.
- Type
- Video
- Tier
- Foundational
- Duration
- 15 mins
The Understanding Dementia MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) was developed by the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre. This world-leading online course is available to everyone with an...
- Type
- Online course
- Tier
- Introductory
D-Esc
D-Esc is a Dementia Australia workshop that provides virtual reality (VR) training for a behavioural emergency, designed for participants working in health care, caring for people living with...
- Type
- Workshop
- Tier
- Foundational
- Duration
- 3 hrs
Build you team’s expertise or upskill yourself with this fully funded, nationally recognised unit of competency.This course offers skills and strategies to help with communication, planning,...
- Type
- Program
- Tier
- Foundational
Build your team’s expertise or upskill yourself with this fully funded, nationally recognised unit of competency.This course offers skills and strategies to help with communication, planning,...
- Type
- Program
- Tier
- Foundational
Through completing this course, you will gain a better understanding of dementia, including common symptoms and how dementia affects the brain and behaviour.You will explore some contributing causes...
- Type
- Online course
- Tier
- Foundational
- Duration
- 1 hr
This 9‑week program combines self‑directed learning with guided expert support to build participants’ confidence and capability in responding to changed behaviour in people living with dementia in...
- Type
- Program
- Tier
- Enhanced Practice
Following on from Environments Foundation, your team will be supported to implement your action plan for changing a building, room or ward. An Environments facilitator will guide your action team to...
- Type
- Program
- Tier
- Enhanced Practice
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...
- Type
- Online module
- Tier
- Foundational
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Parent course
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Module 7 of 7 in: Understanding Changed Behaviour
This is a half day workshop that focuses on changed behaviour in people living with dementia. The workshop focuses on the prevalence of changed behaviour and psychological symptoms in people living...
- Type
- Workshop
- Tier
- Enhanced Practice
- Duration
- 3 hrs