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      • COVID-19 virtual classrooms
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        • Engaging and connecting with people living with dementia through COVID-19
        • Supporting behaviour changes during COVID-19 restrictions
      • 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
        • 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
  • Community of practice
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Virtual Dementia Experience™

The multi-award winning Virtual Dementia Experience™

The multi-award winning Virtual Dementia Experience™ (VDE™) is an immersive, interactive virtual reality experience that invades the senses and takes people into the world of a person living with dementia.

A VDE™ session takes the participant through a multi-sensory simulation using light, sound, colour and visual content to immerse you into the lived experience of a person with dementia.

Created in collaboration with Melbourne game developers, Opaque Multimedia, in consultation with carers, people with dementia and our educators, the VDE™ is an innovative use of game technology to deliver experiential learning aimed at increasing empathy.

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Megan Conley | eLearning Coordinator

“I had an 8 hour shift in the facility the next day and I was able to use the experience several times, in different ways, throughout the day. It was such an incredible feeling!”− Participant

This 2 hour workshop enables participants to understand the environmental elements that are friendly or hostile, by allowing them to experience a home environment in the same way a person with dementia would. Participants are encouraged to reflect on their own approach to dementia support and to think about ways in which they can make their own environments more supportive.

On completion of this session you will:

  • have an improved understanding of what it may be like to live with dementia
  • have developed more empathy with people living with dementia and their carers
  • have gained an understanding of the impact of the environment on people with dementia
  • be prompted to consider enhancements to the environment and support for people living with dementia
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If you are interested in a Virtual Dementia Experience workshop for your workplace or wish to further discuss your training needs and get an obligation free quote, contact the Centre for Dementia Learning 1300 DEMENTIA (1300 336 368) or email cdl@dementia.org.au

View and book the upcoming Virtual Dementia ExperienceTM workshops below


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