This Facilitator Guide is a comprehensive education program covering core dementia knowledge suitable for health professionals from all disciplines who care for people with dementia.
The guide utilises and compliments the content of the DTSC’s core education modules to provide educators or senior clinicians with a prepared workshop or collection of education sessions.
The modules are designed to be delivered either as a full day workshop or as six, hour long education sessions which each build upon the previous session.
The suggested six sessions are:
Session 1: Overview of dementia
Session 2: Diagnosing dementia
Session 3: Treatment and intervention options 1
Session 4: Treatment and intervention options 2
Session 5: Philosophy of care
Session 6: Therapeutic communication and Dementia friendly environments
Within each module, reference is made to an accompanying PowerPoint presentation and these can be downloaded Here.
The core modules are also available and can be downloaded Here
This PowerPoint presentation accompanies the facilitator’s manual, developed to provide health educators or senior clinicians in all health care settings with a comprehensive education program covering core dementia knowledge.
The relevant slides to use for each of the six separate modules are detailed within the manual.
The modules are designed to be delivered either as a full day workshop or as six, hour long education sessions which each build upon the previous session.
The suggested six sessions are:
- Session 1: Overview of dementia
- Session 2: Diagnosing dementia
- Session 3: Treatment and intervention options 1
- Session 4: Treatment and intervention options 2
- Session 5: Philosophy of care
- Session 6: Therapeutic communication and Dementia friendly environments
The Facilitator’s Manual that partners the powerpoint presentation can be downloaded Here
The core modules are also available and can be downloaded Here
This manual is for use with the Hierarchic Dementia Scale-Revised (HDS-R).
If you have the original version of the assessment (HDS) you will need the Possibility Oriented Care manual.
The Possibility Oriented Approach is a philosophy of care for people with dementia and a framework for interpreting the results of the HDS-R, developed by Heather Freegard through the WA Dementia Training Study Centre. It assists the user in developing person-centred care plans and interventions based on their remaining cognitive abilities.
A hard copy of this manual is included with each HDS-R kit which is available from HammondCare. Visit their website or call HammondCare on (02) 8280 8408.
Come Into My World – How to Interact with a Person who has Dementia, an educational resource for undergraduate healthcare students on the provision of person‐centred care.
This educational resource will illustrate that, by using a more person-centred care approach, healthcare practitioners can improve both the quality of their practice and the wellbeing of the person with dementia.
The educational resource consists of a workbook (pdf file) with embedded links to short videos and is based on the work of Professor Tom Kitwood (1997) and Professor Dawn Brooker (2007).
The workbook interrelates with the re-enacted case scenarios created from healthcare professionals’ experiences of caring for people with dementia. It is envisaged that, by illustrating examples of the person-centred care approach in real-life situations, it will help healthcare students to enhance their professional practice.
Published by: Flinders University of South Australia, Sturt Road, Bedford Park, SA 5042 in partnership with South Australia & Northern Territory Dementia Training Study Centre
This manual is for use with the original version of the Hierarchic Dementia Scale (HDS).
If you have the revised version of the assessment (HDS-R) you will need the Possibility Oriented Approach manual.
The Possibility Oriented Care is an approach to interpreting the results of the Hierarchic Dementia Scale and caring for people with dementia, developed by Heather Freegard through the WA Dementia Training Study Centre. It assists the user in developing person-centred care plans and interventions based on their remaining cognitive abilities.
Sexualities and Dementia Facilitators Guide
This guide will assist facilitators to work through the Sexualities and Dementia Education Resource and provides workshop information for which a ‘train the trainer’ education style can be applied.
The Sexualities and Dementia: An education resource for Health Professionals is available as a separate download here
The career pathway project document and matrix are attached here for dissemination. The project document gives a history of the project and the matrix provides a summary of the professional skills required at various stages of dementia and educational pathway for nurses.
Both the Career Pathway Report and Career Pathways Matrix are included in a single Zip file.
Environmental Design: a national programme providing environmental design education and specialist advice for aged and healthcare services.
This project has the goal of improving the lives of people with dementia and their carers by providing residential and healthcare managers, planners, architects and designers with the skills and awareness necessary to create dementia-friendly environments that maximise independence and reduce anxiety in people with dementia while assisting carers to perform their role.
The Environmental Design Kit zip file contains the following pdf files;
- Principles and evidence: healthcare: A review of the literature and evidence behind the key principles of design.
- The Environmental Audit Tool Handbook: Purpose of this handbook is to assist users of the Environmental Audit Tool (EAT) to systematically review and create better environments for people living with dementia.
- The Environmental Audit Tool: Purpose of this tool is to provide a systematic review to assist in creating better environments for people living with dementia.
The following Environmental Design Resources are also available;
Designing for People with Dementia – Healthcare/Acute flyer
Our team of environmental design experts, is now providing on-site education, assessment and advice to aged and health care managers and architects who are in the process of planning new, or refurbished acute, sub acute and transitional care facilities for people with dementia.
To download click here (0.9 Mg pdf file)
Designing for People with Dementia – Residential Aged Care flyer
Our team of environmental design experts, is now providing on-site education, assessment and advice to aged and health care managers and architects who are in the process of planning new, or refurbished facilities for people with dementia.
To download click here (1.5 Mg pdf file)