Dementia 3 – Person-centred dementia care
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Dementia 3 – Person-centred dementia care

This is module 3 of a 9 part series

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Updated Nov 02, 2024

What you'll learn

  • Be knowledgeable, trained and equipped for assisting people living with dementia (Aged Care Quality Standard 7)
  • 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, tailored to the needs of the individual, and being responsive to deterioration in mental health and cognitive function (Aged Care Quality Standard 3)
  • Provide emotional, spiritual and psychological support that is meaningful and relevant to the individual (Aged Care Quality Standard 3)
  • Support the individual to participate in activities of personal interest and relationships of choice (Aged Care Quality Standard 4)
  • Utilise the service environment to enable freedom of movement indoors and outdoors (Aged Care Quality Standard 5)
  • Understand Aged Care Quality Standards
Course Description

This is module 3 of a nine-part series looking at dementia. In this module, we look at the effects of dementia on families and caregivers. Dementia is also viewed through the lens of the social model of disability to understand how society can enable or disable a person living with dementia. Most importantly, we explore how person-centred dementia care will be enacted and expressed in practical care. 

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).