Learning more about dementia – catering to the changing needs of your consumers.
When it comes to dementia, there is still so much for us to learn and discover.
At Dementia Detailing, we are committed to a lifelong learning journey about dementia.
And we are experts at providing dementia support pathways to health and aged care services to support people living with dementia and their carers.
Our services are enduring because they are grounded in evidence-based facts.
Dementia Detailing has advocated and provided services for the needs of both families of people living with dementia and healthcare and aged care providers since 2018.
Understanding the perspective of both parties is integral to the success of our services and assists to inform the recommendations we make as a specialist in dementia care services.
Understanding dementia
More than half of all people living with dementia live in aged care facilities, meaning that the staff working in these facilities need to be well-equipped to provide care for these people in a manner that enhances their quality of life.
Essentially, when a brain is impacted by dementia, parts of the brain are dying.
The declining or lost abilities of people living with dementia are due to those parts of the brain that are dying or are dead.
Many care systems support and deliver services to mitigate the fallout effect of the parts of the brain that are dying, but our point of difference at Dementia Detailing is the way in which we work to harness the retained abilities.
Our services focus on enhancing the parts of the brain that remain active and alive and, in turn, improve the quality of life for people living with dementia.
Want to know more about how you and your organisation can better understand dementia to raise your care standards?
Our strategies work to empower health care professionals through:
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Dementia training for staff
Dementia Detailing has been providing services for the needs of organisations working with dementia consumers since 2018 and can claim to already have been working on recommendations made in 2021 by the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, including, but not limited to:
- Recommendation 15: Establishment of a dementia support pathway, including providing increased post‐diagnostic support for people with dementia and their carers.
- Recommendation 16: Specialist dementia care services.
- Recommendation 17: Regulation of restraints i.e., medicinal and physical, including training and support services to support aged care providers in better management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.
- Recommendation 26: Improved public awareness of aged care, including provision of localised aged care and dementia specific referral information for general practitioners and other healthcare professionals.
- Recommendation 30: Designing for diversity, difference, complexity and individuality; our transitional care services for PLWD moving into permanent residential aged care.
- Recommendation 35: Care at home category; support services that enable PLWD to live more successfully at home.
- Recommendation 37: Residential care category; optimising PLWD to live successfully in residential care.
- Recommendation 45: Improving the design of aged care accommodation, including application of dementia‐friendly design principles.
Our ‘pre-emptive not reactive’ service offering allows healthcare and aged care professionals to offer consumers an individualised approach to their dementia care through the skilling and support of staff.
Want to know more about how we can assist your facility to do the same?
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Strategic planning for dementia
We are living longer, and this is a positive fact, but caring for our ageing population is a specialist field, particularly when caring for those living with dementia.
More than two thirds of Australia’s aged care residents experience moderate to severe cognitive decline, yet many facilities are not equipped to deliver the appropriate level and/or type of care required to offer these consumers the best quality of life.
Dementia Detailing assists health and aged care facilities to design and implement strategic dementia care solutions – tailored to suit the facility itself, its staff and residents.
We can assist you to integrate strategies into your care framework to assist people living with dementia in your care to focus on their retained abilities through the support of staff.
Staff, the facility and its consumers will benefit from efficient and sustainable education to assist in connection with residents living with dementia in a manner that will enhance their working lives.
We work closely with health and aged care providers to strategise the best practice strategies in undertaking their work duties across a 24-hour cycle, with the ease of staff and best interests of consumers in mind.
Are you looking to implement a holistic, positive and efficient approach to the care of people living with dementia in a health or aged care facility?
Partner with Dementia Detailing for strategic solutions to help your organisation navigate structural changes that best support those living with dementia and their carers.
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia, in particular the Kaurna people of our local Area, and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
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