Resources

Increase your knowledge of caring for a person experiencing dementia-related responsive behaviours and explore how people with dementia may express their needs through behaviour, rather than words.

The course provides knowledge designed to maximise quality of life across the trajectory of dementia for people with the condition, their families and caregivers.

Maximising benefit and minimising harm; Learn how you can support the deprescribing process in older people living with dementia.

Develop the knowledge and practice skills needed to care for people with dementia in hospitals.

This online course from Dementia Training Australia will help you understand the care experience from the viewpoint of the person living with dementia.

Increase your understanding of pain assessment and management for people with dementia living in a residential environment.

Well-chosen, personalised activities can make an enormous difference to the wellbeing of people living with dementia, especially if they are in hospital. Learn about one hospital team’s efforts to offer better activities, and how staff were supported to do so.

Understand some of the issues older people have with their sleep, learn about the association between sleep and dementia and uncover ways that nurses and care workers can optimise sleep for those living in aged care.

Explore the most up to date advice on dementia in the General Practice setting. Various health professionals share their knowledge, experience and insights in dementia research, education and care.

Learn how to look, listen and investigate pain in people living with dementia who are unable to verbalise their discomfort or pain.