Allied health workers
Professional development, training and resources for allied health workers
- Applying a problem solving approach to behaviours
Your team will learn how to apply a systematic approach to problem solving changed behaviours and provide positive support strategies for people living with dementia.
- Clinical tools and resources
Dementia guidelines, toolkits, measures and other resources for professionals and care workers.
- Intimacy, Sexuality and DementiaNon-accredited training
- Face-to-face
- All states and territories
- 3 hours
- Fees apply
- Dine with Ted (VR)
This immersive onsite workshop challenges you to see the dining experience through the eyes of a person living with dementia using virtual reality and avatar technology.
- D-Esc
D-Esc provides virtual reality (VR) training for a behavioural emergency, designed for participants working in health care, caring for people living with dementia.
- Enabling EDIE
EDIE is an immersive virtual-reality workshop that enables participants to see the world through the eyes of a person living with dementia.
- Designing dementia-friendly care environments
A well-designed care environment can enable people living with dementia to make the best of everyday life.
- Talk with Ted
Talk with Ted is a realistic online simulation designed to support respectful communication with people living with dementia.
- Ask Annie
With short, practical and interactive modules, the Ask Annie app helps care workers fit dementia care skills development into their busy day.
- Dementia Essentials: CHCAGE011 Provide support to people living with dementia
Build your team’s expertise or upskill yourself with this fully funded, nationally recognised unit of competency in changed behaviour in people living with dementia.
- Establishing carer support groups
The course is designed for health professionals and volunteers to establish, lead and sustain a dementia carer support group.
- Dementia communities of practice
Connect with like-minded professionals, share knowledge and develop skills to support people living with dementia and drive positive change in your workplace.
- Understanding dementia
This onsite workshop provides an overview of dementia to a team supporting people with dementia, including signs and symptoms, causes and how dementia affects behaviour.
- Intellectual disability and dementia
This workshop helps you identify dementia-related changes in people with an intellectual disability and support your clients through the changing nature of dementia.
- Achieving purposeful engagement
Enable your team to create meaningful, purposeful engagement for people living with dementia. By understanding an individual’s needs, staff can plan engaging activities.
- Understanding behaviour changes (UBC) coaching program
The focus of the UBC Coaching Program is to upskill your key staff to have an in-depth understanding of why people living with dementia experience behaviour changes.
- Meaningful engagement mentors program
This coaching program is designed to develop the skills and knowledge of your team in providing meaningful engagement for people living with dementia.
- Environmental audits: dementia enabling environments
Our team of consultants can help you create environments that enable people living with dementia to feel supported and engaged and live as independently as possible.
- Demonstrating dementia leadership
Enrol to explore knowledge and skills for leading teams and individuals, by modelling good practice and learning how to influence performance and develop team cohesion.
- What is dementia?
This 3-part online course will introduces you to dementia, diagnosis, treatment and support strategies for both the person living with dementia and their carer.
- Quality dementia support in hospitals
Consider the journey through the hospital system for a person with dementia, taking into account some of the associated risks and possible barriers to quality support.
- A problem-solving approach to behaviours
This course helps you understand changed behaviours through a problem-solving approach and explores strategies to help prevent or minimise the impact of behaviour.
- Engaging in the outdoors
Explore the benefits of engaging in nature and the outdoors for people living with dementia.
- Communicating in a person-centred way
In this course you will explore communication for people living with dementia and how to influence people to promote positive communication.
- Dementia and pain in residential care
Raise your awareness of pain in residential aged care, identify common causes of pain and manage pain for people living with dementia.
- How person-centred is your practice?
This course explores person-centred practice and frameworks, your current practice and strategies to improve and enhance your knowledge.
- 10993NAT Certificate IV in dementia practice
Enhance dementia practice, strengthening your existing staff’s capacity to be dementia practice leaders.
- Nutrition and dementia: food for thought
Explore the importance of eating well, the impact of dementia and review the standards and recommendations relevant to your practice in the workplace.