Dementia Training Australia is a website from a consortium of experts in dementia care and workforce training. Funded by the Australian Government, it provides dementia-specific training for aged care, health care professionals, undergraduate trainees, and a range of other professionals and community service providers. The website provides a wide range of evidence-based eLearning training courses and lectures, as well as resources relating to dementia education. DTA also provides design consultancy services to hospitals, and can work with health service organisations to develop tailored training packages.
Learn about Delirium is a QUT self-paced online course about delirium and delirium superimposed on dementia.
Understanding Dementia is a free Massive Open Online Course available through the the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre at the University of Tasmania. The course provides participants with knowledge including causes, symptoms and ways of responding to the needs of people living with dementia.
The End of Life law for Clinicians webinar is now available for viewing on YouTube. The webinar was hosted by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology on 9 October 2019. The webinar discusses end of life law through a clinical case study about an older person in a residential care setting.
Topics addressed include:
The webinar features Professor Ben White and Associate Professor Shih-Ning Then, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QUT, with clinical co-presenters Dr Peter Saul, Senior Specialist in Intensive Care, John Hunter hospital, Newcastle and Dr Bill Lukin, Palliative and Emergency medicine Specialist, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.
CPD points are available for doctors, medical students or health professionals through free online training modules at End of Life Law for Clinicians.
The ED Dementia Care Training Program: Providing best care to older people with dementia in emergency departments. Alzheimer’s Australia Dementia Research Foundation and the Queensland University of Technology have developed a set of new learning modules for providing care to older people in emergency departments.
The NSW Health Education Training Institute (HETI) provides eLearning modules that include:
HETI also provide a simulation for allied health professionals about how to respond to patients who present with behavioural and psychological symptoms associated with dementia and delirium.
NSW Dementia Competency and Training Network is interactive website that delivers online dementia training as well as providing ongoing resources, research updates and support to clinicians. Six online dementia courses are facilitated by dementia clinicians and include discussion forums, real-time online chats, quizzes and self-directed lessons. The site also provides access to dementia care competencies developed for clinicians at essential, enhanced and expert levels.
The NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation has produced a series of videos to help health professionals understand the care needs of a person with intellectual disability. The following are relevant to hospital admissions:
Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing has a series of modules that include dementia and delirium. The delirium module is a case study focusing on the recognition of delirium in an older Aboriginal person in hospital.
Western Australian Clinical Training Network has produced a simulation video to increase delirium awareness.
Older people in hospital from the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, is a resource to assist clinicians to improve care and minimise the functional decline of older patients in hospital. It provides tips, clinical information and resources in a number of areas including cognition.
The Victorian Geriatric Medicine Training Program includes modules on delirium, dementia and legal issues such as consent to medical treatment.