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Dementia 2 – The progression of dementia
This is module 2 of a 9 part series on dementia
AMC and eLearning Products
Updated Oct 12, 2024
What you'll learn
- Distinguish between the effects of disease and the individual, enabling them to treat every client with dignity and respect (Aged Care Quality Standard 1)
- Empower clients for participation in assessment and planning by assisting them to understand the impacts on cognition of lifestyle choices, medications, and comorbidities (Aged Care Quality Standard 2)
- Provide the most appropriate personal and clinical care, minimising risks associated with nutritional deficiencies, infection and pharmacological interventions (Aged Care Quality Standard 3)
- Be knowledgeable, trained and equipped for assisting people living with dementia (Aged Care Quality Standard 7)
- Understand how the effects of nutrition, poisons, drugs, endocrine abnormalities, other diseases on the individual to cause dementia-like symptoms
- The symptoms often experienced in each stage (mild, moderate and advanced)
- The diversity of the dementia journey
- Aged Care Quality Standards
- Empower clients for participation in assessment and planning by assisting them to understand the impacts on cognition of lifestyle choices, medications, and comorbidities
- How to provide the most appropriate personal and clinical care, minimising risks associated with nutritional deficiencies, infection and pharmacological interventions
Course Description
This is module 2 of a nine-part series looking at dementia. In this module, we look potentially reversible causes of dementia-like symptoms, and the changes in the individual as dementia progresses.
This course has been mapped to the Aged Care Quality Standards:
- distinguish between the effects of disease and the individual, enabling you to treat every client with dignity and respect (Aged Care Quality Standard 1)
- empower clients for participation in assessment and planning by assisting them to understand the impacts on cognition of lifestyle choices, medications, and comorbidities (Aged Care Quality Standard 3 – 3.1)
- provide the most appropriate personal and clinical care, minimising risks associated with:
- nutritional deficiencies, (ACQS 6 – 6.2)
- infection and (ACQS 5 - 5.2)
- pharmacological interventions (Aged Care Quality Standard 5 – 5.3)
- be knowledgeable, trained and equipped for assisting people living with dementia (Aged Care Quality Standard 2 ).
