Online Dementia Modules

Choose individual dementia modules, based on your areas of interest. Modules are short, and can be completed in any order.

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Updated: 13 Dec 2023

Understanding changed behaviours

What are changed behaviours?

30 mins

Enhanced

Module 1

This module introduces changed behaviours, the concept of behaviour communicating needs and how using frameworks can help you to address them.

Residential Care
Primary Care
Community Care
Mixed
Respite Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 2 3

Updated: 16 Mar 2023

Caring for LGBTI people

Introduction to LGBTI people

45 mins

Novice

Module 1

This module explores the sexual diversities within the Australian population.

Residential Care
Acute Care
Primary Care
Community Care
Mixed
Respite Care
Palliative Care
Emergency Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 3

Updated: 01 Aug 2023

Creating supportive environments for people living with dementia

Learn how buildings affect our perception and behaviour, use the Design Principles as an evidence-base for creating supportive environments and develop tools to support transformation within places that you work.

Residential Care
Acute Care
Mixed

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 5

A stages and domains approach to recognising and diagnosing dementia in general practice

Updated: 16 Aug 2023

Demystifying Dementia

A stages and domains approach to recognising and diagnosing dementia in general practice

1 hr

Novice

Module 1

This module describes the stages and domains approach to recognising and diagnosing dementia in general practice.

Acute Care
Primary Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 2

Updated: 09 Mar 2023

Dementia in general practice

Recognising Dementia in General Practice

40 mins

Enhanced

Module 1

In this module strategies to recognise and manage dementia in General Practice will be examined.

Primary Care

Updated: 15 Mar 2023

The Pain puzzle

Recognition of Pain

40 mins

Enhanced

Module 1

This module presents an overview of pain in people living with dementia and the recognition of pain in the absence of the ability to self-report

Residential Care
Acute Care
Community Care
Mixed

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 2 3

Updated: 15 Aug 2023

Appropriate use of benzodiazepines and other sedatives

Introduction to appropriate use of benzodiazepines and other sedatives

1 hr

Expert

Module 1

Learn to balance the risks and benefits of using benzodiazepines and other sedatives in people living with dementia.

Residential Care
Primary Care
Community Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 3

Updated: 14 Jul 2023

The view from here - acute care

Neuropathology

40 mins

Enhanced

Module 1

This module introduces you to the basic neuropathology of dementia and the responsive behaviours associated with dementia.

Acute Care
Primary Care

Updated: 24 Mar 2021

The view from here (residential care)

The brain and dementia

40 mins

Novice

Module 1

This module introduces you to the changes that occur in the brain of a person with dementia and the impact of these changes on the person.

Residential Care
Community Care
Respite Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1

Assessments and interventions for responsive behaviours

Updated: 14 Jul 2023

Walking safely with dementia

Assessments and interventions for responsive behaviours

40 mins

Novice

Module 1

Understand wandering as a responsive behaviour. Learn about responsive behaviours, their causes, and gathering information that informs interventions to help a person living with dementia feel more comfortable and content.

Residential Care
Acute Care
Primary Care
Community Care
Mixed
Respite Care
Palliative Care
Emergency Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 2 3 4

Updated: 19 Sep 2023

Reducing medicines in people living with dementia

Polypharmacy

30 mins

Expert

Module 1

Expand your understanding of why older people living with dementia so often use multiple medicines, and why this can be a problem.

Residential Care
Acute Care
Primary Care
Community Care
Respite Care
Palliative Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 2 3 6 7

Updated: 14 Jul 2023

Sleep matters

Understanding sleep

20 mins

Novice

Module 1

Improve your understanding about the importance of sleep, the brain and sleep and the problems that can arise with poor or disrupted sleep.

Residential Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 2 3 4

Understanding the limited role of using antipsychotics

Updated: 19 Jun 2023

Minimising use of antipsychotic medications for responsive behaviour

Understanding the limited role of using antipsychotics

1 hr

Enhanced

Module 1

In this module you will be introduced to some DTA resources and a case study that suggests ways to support a person with dementia who is experiencing a responsive behaviour...

Residential Care
Respite Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 1 3

Updated: 14 Jul 2023

Dementia discovery

Dementia Discovery: Understanding the brain and dementia

30 mins

Novice

Module 1

Using video and animation, this DTA micro-course gives an introduction to the brain, as a foundation for understanding causes of dementia.

Updated: 14 Jul 2023

Pain for direct care workers

The recognition of pain for direct care workers

1 hr

Novice

Module 1

This module provides an overview of pain and how to recognise pain in people with dementia who can’t tell us that they are in pain.

Residential Care
Primary Care
Community Care
Mixed
Respite Care
Palliative Care

Supporting Aged Care Quality Standard: 3

Updated: 16 Mar 2023

Caring for LGBTI people

Lived experiences past and present

45 mins

Novice

Module 2

You will learn about the shared history that older LGBTI people have lived through, as well as well as deepening your appreciation for each individual's own set of unique experiences...