312180 (v.1) Introduction to Dementia Care 511

Area:	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	Inter-professional collaborative approaches to enhance dementia care; disease progression and symptoms in dementia; assessments relevant to dementia care; symptom management in a planned approach to dementia care; supporting family carers throughout the dementia trajectory; the influence of cultural or Indigenous contexts and individual perspectives on the experience of dementia; accessing and applying best practice empowerment, advocacy, support, communication, and care strategies for people who have dementia; philosophical approaches and ethical principles that can inform this area of practice.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	090507 Care for the Aged
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Categorised *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External