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        • Meaningful engagement mentors program
        • Supporting behaviour changes during COVID-19 restrictions
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          • How person-centred is your practice?
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        • Quality dementia support in hospitals
        • Nutrition and dementia: food for thought
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        • Establishing carer support groups
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        • Understanding dementia
        • Supporting successful communication
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        • Applying a problem solving approach to behaviours
      • Immersive learning
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        • Enabling EDIE™
        • Virtual Dementia Experience™
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        • Montessori for dementia
        • Younger onset dementia
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Intellectual disability and dementia

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Continuing learning

For a person with intellectual disability it may be harder to recognise an emerging dementia condition. This workshop delivered onsite helps participants to identify dementia related changes in people who have an existing intellectual disability and build on processes to support your clients through the changing nature of dementia.

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Face-to-face (three hours)

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All states

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A team of staff providing support to people living with an intellectual disability and dementia in various care settings

Program benefits

  • Staff learn about the assessment and diagnosis of dementia for people with intellectual disability.
  • Your workforce can adapt support to maintain the familiar routines for people living with intellectual disability and dementia.
  • People living with intellectual disability and dementia feel supported as their needs change.

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

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