Dementia

As a health care worker providing care or services to older people living in residential or home care you are required to practice in accordance with the requirements of the Aged Care Quality Standards.

This learning resource will also have relevance in all of other health care settings providing care or services to older people.

Aged Care Learning Solutions educational material is endorsed by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation.

Learning Outcomes: 

• 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