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      • Online learning
        • DPI series
          • What is Dementia?
          • Communicating in a Person-centred Way
          • How Person-centred is Your Practice?
          • A Problem Solving Approach to Behaviours
        • 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
        • Ask Annie app
        • Understanding Dementia
        • Achieving Purposeful Engagement
        • Applying a Problem Solving Approach to Behaviours
        • Virtual Dementia Experience™ 2.0
      • Immersive learning
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    • A day in the life – mealtime experience
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    • The Dementia-Friendly Home app
    • A Better Visit app
  • Communities of Practice
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Centre for Dementia Learning

Dementia Australia
  • Home
    • About us
  • Education
    • Courses
      • COVID-19 virtual classrooms
        • Understanding Dementia
        • Achieving Purposeful Engagement
        • Applying a Problem Solving Approach to Behaviours
        • Meaningful Engagement Mentors Program
      • Online learning
        • DPI series
          • What is Dementia?
          • Communicating in a Person-centred Way
          • How Person-centred is Your Practice?
          • A Problem Solving Approach to Behaviours
        • 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
        • Ask Annie app
        • Understanding Dementia
        • Achieving Purposeful Engagement
        • Applying a Problem Solving Approach to Behaviours
        • Virtual Dementia Experience™ 2.0
      • Immersive learning
        • A day in the life – mealtime experience
        • Ask Annie
        • Enabling EDIE™
        • Talk with Ted
      • Continuing learning
        • Intellectual Disability and Dementia
        • Meaningful Engagement Mentors Program
      • All courses
    • The Dementia Learning Guide
  • Consultancy
  • Technology
    • Ask Annie
    • Talk with Ted
    • A day in the life – mealtime experience
    • Enabling EDIE™ Workshop
    • The Dementia-Friendly Home app
    • A Better Visit app
  • Communities of Practice
  • Contact us
Menu
  • Home
    • About us
  • Education
    • Courses
      • COVID-19 virtual classrooms
        • Understanding Dementia
        • Achieving Purposeful Engagement
        • Applying a Problem Solving Approach to Behaviours
        • Meaningful Engagement Mentors Program
      • Online learning
        • DPI series
          • What is Dementia?
          • Communicating in a Person-centred Way
          • How Person-centred is Your Practice?
          • A Problem Solving Approach to Behaviours
        • 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
        • Ask Annie app
        • Understanding Dementia
        • Achieving Purposeful Engagement
        • Applying a Problem Solving Approach to Behaviours
        • Virtual Dementia Experience™ 2.0
      • Immersive learning
        • A day in the life – mealtime experience
        • Ask Annie
        • Enabling EDIE™
        • Talk with Ted
      • Continuing learning
        • Intellectual Disability and Dementia
        • Meaningful Engagement Mentors Program
      • All courses
    • The Dementia Learning Guide
  • Consultancy
  • Technology
    • Ask Annie
    • Talk with Ted
    • A day in the life – mealtime experience
    • Enabling EDIE™ Workshop
    • The Dementia-Friendly Home app
    • A Better Visit app
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  • Contact us

A Better Visit app

A Better Visit is a free to download app featuring a range of two-player games designed to enhance communication and facilitate positive social interactions between people with dementia and their visitors.

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Suggested game guidelines

Share the experience as much as possible. While you may need to explain games and read out questions try to play together as equal players. Engage your co-player as much as possible by demonstrating, gently guiding, encouraging and turn taking.

Find the right activity at the right time. There might be games one of you is not interested in or days where an activity away from the iPad is preferred. This is ok and should be respected.

Be flexible and explorative. There is no right or wrong way to play, or requirement to complete games. Come up with ways that engage both of you, the main purpose is to have fun together or engage in a conversation prompted by the visuals or music. Don’t necessarily insist on playing according to rules.

Engage in conversations. Ask one question at a time (even if there are several listed). Don’t leave all the questions to your co-player; show initiative and tell some stories yourself.

A Better Visit app does not collect data. For more information on Dementia Australia’s Privacy Policy click here.

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The app is designed to help families have a ‘Better Visit’ with their family member living in residential care.

Often family members struggle to interact and engage with a family member who no longer recognises them. This application assists with engaging the family members and results in a ‘Better Visit’ for everyone.

Acknowledgments

A Better Visit app has been developed in collaboration by Dementia Australia, Lifeview Residential Care and Swinburne University of Technology’s Future Self and Design Living Lab. The interactive games were designed in a co-creative process with people living with moderate and advanced dementia and their visitors.

Special thanks to all participating residents, families and Lifeview staff who helped in co-designing and evaluating the app.

To learn more about “A Better Visit” app, contact the Centre for Dementia Learning on 1300 DEMENTIA (1300 336 368) or email cdl@dementia.org.au

Centre for Dementia Learning

Dementia Australia is the leading national provider of dementia education. Our highly skilled team has extensive experience in a wide range of areas, facilitating learning experiences which touch, move and inspire participants to transform their practice.
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