GP / Aged Care Engagement Great Southern

Dementia Essentials

CHCAGE005 Provide support to people living with dementia

Build your team’s expertise with this fully funded, nationally accredited course, which is designed for aged care, healthcare and disability workers. Staff can choose a mode of learning that works for their needs. We offer learning face-to-face, online via our virtual classroom – or a combination of both.

Unlike traditional webinars, our virtual classrooms are interactive allowing for active participation. They can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection, using a desktop PC, laptop or tablet device. Education can be delivered across multiple sites and locations while maintaining social distancing.

This course offers skills and strategies to help with communication, planning, developing activities and understanding changed behaviour in people living with dementia.

Learn about:

• person-centred care
• the nature of dementia
• effective communication
• impact of dementia
• activities for engagement
• identifying elder abuse and restrictive practises
• understanding changed behaviour and developing effective responses
• creating supportive environments.
  
  

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Accompanying the release of the Commission’s Outbreak Management Planning guidance, we recently hosted a webinar on this topic that was open to all residential aged care services providers. The webinar, which can be viewed here, provided an overview of the resource and also addressed some of the lessons learned by the Commission and providers who experienced a COVID-19 outbreak at their residential service.

The Commission has also produced a video for providers to support their workers, care recipients, families and visitors to prevent, prepare for and manage outbreaks of COVID-19, which can be viewed via our website.

From 10 December 2020 until 30 June 2022, new Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items are available for care recipients in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). There are a range of items now available for General Practitioners and allied health professionals who provide care in RACFs for mental health, chronic disease management and physical therapy.

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In this update

• Update on the COVID-19 vaccine roll out from the Commonwealth
• COVID-19 HealthPathways updates
• Special COVID-19 GP Update from the Deputy CMO
• COVID-19 online events, webinars and training
• Allocation of surgical masks from the National Medical Stockpile
• Useful COVID-19 links

Find this document in the resources section of this page.

Version 3 released November 24 2020

this provides information on the latest testing and quarantine requirements for people travelling into WA from interstate