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Osborne Park Hospital Occupational Therapy Project Dementia
Dementia: Osborne Park Hospital Guide for Occupational Therapists in Clinical Practice is an evidence based, ready reference guide for clinicians working in hospital and community settings to assist them improve outcomes and provide quality service for people with dementia and their carers. It was developed by clinicians for clinicians. The Guide provides practical, evidence based information to assist clinicians develop and utilise best practice assessment and management strategies to assist their clients. The guide can be accessed on our online resources page by clicking here
Assessment and Management of Confusion in the Acute Care Setting with a Focus on Delirium
Developed by a team of health professionals within Curtin University School of Nursing and Midwifery and the Centre for Research on Ageing, this web-based self directed learning package is designed to assist health professionals with assessment and management of a confused person. While focused on acute care, the information is relevant to all health and residential care settings.Topics covered include: precipitating and predisposing factors; differentiation between delirium, depression and dementia; clinical decision-making processes;cognitive screening and assessment; models and approaches to manage delirium; prevention and reduction strategies. The learning resource can be accessed through our national eLearning centre by clicking here.
e-Ageing: An online interactive, case based, interprofessional self directed suite of learning modules including dementia
The Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing (WACHA), a partnership of The University of Western Australia and the Western Australian Institute of Medical Research with the support of the Department of Health of Western Australia is a non-profit clinical research and education centre.
Under the auspices of WACHA, the e-Ageing project aims to provide education about the ageing process and associated diseases for both medical and paramedical professionals via online interactive, case based, interprofessional self directed learning modules.
The WA Dementia Training Study Centre has supported the e-Ageing project by funding the development of the dementia module.
Other modules addressing continence, delirium, depression, falls, geriatric assessment and planning, healthy ageing, rehabilitation, residential care and stroke are also freely accessible on the e-Ageing site.
The final manuscript from the e-Ageing project has now been published on-line in The Australasian Journal on Ageing.
