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Release Announcement: NEW Dementia Care Program out now!
Release Announcement: NEW Dementia Care Program out now!

Dementia 4: Environment and Enablement in Dementia Care (SQS)

$79.00

Welcome to the "Dementia 4: Environment and Enablement in Dementia Care" online course.

This online course explores how the care environment influences the wellbeing, behaviour, independence and safety of people living with dementia. Learners will learn to identify environmental factors that may contribute to distress or decline and recognise when to address or escalate concerns. The course also develops learners’ awareness of assistive technologies that may be used to support comfort, enablement and quality of life as well as practical skills to implement small environmental adjustments within their scope of practice.


This course contains 2 modules:

  • (SQS-DM7EE) Environment and Enablement
  • (SQS-DM7AS) Final Assessment 

Objectives

Module 1 of 2:

Environment and Enablement  

After completing this module, it is expected that learners will be better able to...

  • Identify how the care environment influences the behaviour, safety and wellbeing of older people living with dementia  
  • Recognise and appropriately escalate possible environment triggers for distress or decline  
  • Apply practical environmental; adjustments within your scope of practice to support the comfort, enablement, independence and wellbeing of older people living with dementia in line with their care plan

Module 2 of 2:

Final Assessment 

Test your understanding of the above modules to complete the course.

Course code: SQS-DM4