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Title: Elearning Dementia Education Resource for GPs & Practice Nurses
Source/Link: https://www.goodfellowunit.org/courses/dementia
Press release from Associate Health Minister Nicky Wagner: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-dementia-guidelines-gps-and-nurses
Description: An eLearning Dementia Education Resource for GPs and Practice Nurses across New Zealand has recently been published on the University of Auckland’s Goodfellow Unit website.
It is designed to build primary care confidence, competence, and consistency in assessing, diagnosing, and managing mild cognitive impairment and typical dementia.
The Northern Regional Alliance led the development of the resource on behalf of the four Health Regional Alliances and in partnership with the Goodfellow Unit. The Goodfellow Unit is an accredited continuing medical education/professional development provider for the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners.
The resource, which can be accessed at no cost to health professionals, is a result of a national collaboration between primary, secondary and tertiary care providers. It is heavily informed by the Waitemata DHB pilot of GPs and practice nurses assessing, diagnosing and managing mild cognitive impairment and typical dementia. You can read more about that pilot in the Waitemata DHB Primary Health Care Cognitive Impairment Pathway Pilot: Final evaluation.
Each topic in the resource has a short video presented by a geriatrician or psychiatrist of older people, with the key points, printable resources and relevant electronic links noted below each video.
Topics covered include:
Target Audience: Primary health care workers, GPs, practice nurses, nurse practitioners
Pricing: Free
Contact:
Email: support@goodfellowunit.org
Online contact form: https://www.goodfellowunit.org/contact-us
Contributor: Dementia Resources Project - 20 Jun 2017, 4:23 PM
Source/Link: https://www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/en/faculty/for/future-postgraduates/postgraduate-study-options/programmes/courses/all-courses/poplprac/767.html
Description:
A clinically focused course that explores dementia within three specific areas; the brain, the diseases, and the person. It explores theoretical concepts and models of dementia care, and focuses on the partnership of individuals, carers and health professionals in the delivery of dementia care.
Appropriate Audience: Nurses, Trainee nurses
Contact:
Anne Williamson - a.williamson@auckland.ac.nz
Contributor: Dementia Resources Project - 24 Jul 2017, 5:23 PM
Title: Dementia
Training Australia
Source/Link: https://www.dementiatrainingaustralia.com.au/location/online-course/
Description: DTA is a service established to provide
dementia-specific training to aged care, health care professionals,
undergraduate trainees, and a range of other professionals and community
service providers.
Our goal is to improve the care and wellbeing of
people with dementia.
We will achieve this goal through a range of
services, events, and resources to ensure that up-to-date dementia
knowledge and skills training are within reach of anyone who has a professional
contact point with people who have dementia.
Contact:
Email: dta@uow.edu.au
Online contact form: https://www.dementiatrainingaustralia.com.au/contact-dta/
Contributor: Dementia Resources Project - 20 Oct 2017, 12:39 PM