Dementia 6 - Legal perspective on dementia care
This is module 6 in a 9 part series on dementia
What you'll learn
- Learning to support individuals to exercise choice and independence, even when it involves risk, to enable them to live the best life they can (Aged Care Quality Standard 1)
- Learning to support clients in communicating their decisions (Aged Care Quality Standard 1)
- Learning to support clients to participate in the community, relationships and activities (Aged Care Quality Standard 4)
- Learning to provide and environment in which the client feels safe and experiences freedom of movement indoors and outdoors (Aged Care Quality Standard 5)
- Learning to balance duty of care and dignity of risk
- Recognising types of abuse and neglect
- Understanding the need for compulsory reporting
- Learning about strategies to reduce wandering, and what to do if a person goes missing
- Aged Care Quality Standards
This is module 6 of a nine-part series looking at dementia. In this module, we look at the legislation that underpins aged care in Australia, and some specific issues such as dignity of risk, neglect and abuse, compulsory reporting requirements, missing persons, and restraint.
This course has been mapped to the following Aged Care Quality Standards:
· make decisions about when family, friends, carers or others should be involved in their care (Aged Care Standard 1 – 1.2, 1.3 and 5 – 5.4, 5.6)
· communicate where responsibility for care is shared (Aged Care Standards 1 and 3 – 3.2, 3.3, 3.4)
· seek input and feedback from carers, family and friends (Aged Care Quality Standard 2 – 2.3, 2.6,).
identify and respond to abuse and neglect of clients (Aged Care Standard 1 – 1.2).
