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          • What is dementia?
          • Communicating in a person-centred way
          • How person-centred is your practice?
          • A problem solving approach to behaviours
        • Understanding younger onset dementia
        • Dementia and pain in residential care
        • Quality dementia support in hospitals
        • Nutrition and dementia: food for thought
        • Engaging in the outdoors
        • Establishing carer support groups
      • Accredited Training
        • Dementia Essentials
      • Foundation learning
        • Understanding dementia
        • Supporting successful communication
        • Achieving purposeful engagement
        • Applying a problem solving approach to behaviours
      • Immersive learning
        • A day in the life – mealtime experience
        • Enabling EDIE™
        • Virtual Dementia Experience™
      • Continuing learning
        • Montessori for dementia
        • Delirium and dementia
        • Intellectual disability and dementia
        • Intimacy, sexuality and dementia
      • All courses
    • The Dementia Learning Guide
  • Consultancy
  • Technology
    • A day in the life – mealtime experience
    • Enabling EDIE™ Workshop
    • Virtual Dementia Experience™
    • The Virtual Forest™
    • The Dementia-Friendly Home app
    • A Better Visit app
  • Practice health check
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Achieving purposeful engagement

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Foundation learningCOVID-19 virtual classrooms

Enable your team to create meaningful and purposeful engagement for people living with dementia. By understanding an individual’s needs, strengths and abilities, staff can plan suitably engaging activities.

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Face-to-face (three hours) or virtual classroom (two hours)

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Course availability

All states, Online

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Course suitability

A team of staff providing support to people living with dementia in various care settings

Program benefits

  • Staff learn to work in partnership with people living with dementia, engaging them in meaningful activities that nurture connection with people and the community.
  • Your workforce brings a creative focus to improving quality of life through opportunities and experiences.
  • People living with dementia are more engaged and fulfilled, demonstrating fewer behaviours due to unmet needs.

Virtual Classrooms

Most of our education courses are now available online. Our virtual classroom sessions are hosted on Zoom, with interactive elements such as polling and break-out rooms. Virtual classrooms provide an opportunity for inter-team learning, which benefits organisations with staff across different locations. This mode of learning is easy to implement and saves time and money by removing the need for travel. If you are new to this mode of learning, we can work with you to ensure you have what you need to make this a success.

For enquiries or general information about this course call 1300 DEMENTIA (1300 336 368) or email cdl@dementia.org.au

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