Online Dementia Modules

Understanding sleep and dementia

Explore sleep from the perspective of the person with dementia, and the experience of living in residential aged care at night.

• Residential Care
• Acute Care
• Primary Care
• Community Care
• Mixed

Dementia Friendly Pharmacy

Explore the ways in which community pharmacies can improve their ability to meet the needs of family carers of people living with dementia.

• Acute Care
• Primary Care
• Community Care
• Mixed

Polypharmacy

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

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

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

• Acute Care
• Primary Care

Introduction to LGBTI people

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

Understanding sleep

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

Salutogenic Person-Centred Care

This short module explores a salutogenic person-centred approach to dementia care.

• Mixed

Dementia Discovery: Understanding the brain and dementia

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

The recognition of pain for direct care workers

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

Dementia and responsive behaviours

This lesson includes a brief review of dementia and responsive behaviours, and gives examples of appropriate support options for a person with dementia who is experiencing responsive behaviours.

• Residential Care
• Respite Care

Neuropathology

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

• Acute Care
• Primary Care

Why environments matter

The course provides an introduction to why environments matter and how you can help support transformation of the places you work to better support people living with dementia.

• Residential Care
• Acute Care
• Mixed

Recognition of Pain

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

Recognising Dementia in General Practice

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

• Primary Care

The brain and dementia

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

On the nightshift

Learn strategies for supporting people with different sleep needs and preferences, and explore the health and wellbeing of the person who supports people with dementia at night

• Residential Care
• Acute Care
• Primary Care
• Community Care
• Mixed

A practical approach to diagnosing dementia in general practice

This module presents an overview of dementia and describes a practical approach to support GPs in diagnosing dementia

• Acute Care
• Primary Care

Deprescribing

Develop your knowledge of how your role can support the deprescribing process for older people living with dementia.

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

Lived experiences past and present

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...

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

Assessing sleep

Learn more about the risk factors for disturbed sleep and how to assess the timing and quality of an older person’s sleep.

• Residential Care