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Dementia - Aged Care Quality Standard 5
This course teaches how to sensitively and appropriately care for those suffering from dementia
Aged Care Learning Solutions
Updated Mar 21, 2025
What you'll learn
- State general information about dementia
- List the causes and symptoms of dementia
- Outline the stages of dementia
- Understand people’s actions, reactions and responses in relation to unmeet needs
- Identify common triggers and contributing factors for people’s actions, reactions and responses
- List strategies to improve peoples’s wellbeing and reduce or prevent their actions, reactions and responses to unmet needs
- Discuss communication strategies to aid the person’s wellbeing
- Consider the needs of CALD older people
- Identify carer and family issues and strategies to support them
Course Description
This course covers the following:
- Overview
- Progression
- Respect and dignity
- Supporting independence, communication and safety
- Responding to unmet needs and behaviours of concern
Business Objectives
With nearly half a million Australians living with some form of dementia, the ability to provide care that is sensitive and appropriate to those living with the condition is an essential skill for all care workers. Learners will build their knowledge of the behavioural and cognitive symptoms of dementia as well as how to adapt the care they provide to be more appropriate and respectful of dementia sufferers and their families. Dementia aligns to Standard 5 of the Aged Care Quality Standards.
Audience
This learning activity is for Aged Care workers
