Activities for the Inpatient Setting
By Dementia Training Australia
- Foundational
- 45 minutes
- Online Module
Engaging people living with dementia in meaningful activities is an important therapeutic care intervention that may reduce changed behaviour and improve wellbeing while in hospital. We begin this module by unpacking what we mean by activity and the purpose of activity in the hospital setting. You will learn how to assess what is meaningful to the individual person living with dementia and how engagement in such activities can reduce changed behaviour and improve mood. The module includes 20 examples of activities suitable for the hospital environment and how to identify activities appropriate to the person's abilities, preferences and personality. This is module 7 in the 9-part module series: The View from Here: Skills in Dementia Care for Acute Settings
Domains:
Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health
Location:
nationally
Cost:
fully-subsidised
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) :
45 minutes
Learning Outcomes
After completing this module, staff should be able to:
- Identify methods to select suitable activities to meaningfully engage a person living with dementia while in hospital.
- Outline how the Need-driven Dementia-compromised Behaviour model (NDB) can be used to derive effective activity prescription.
- Recognise that recreational and social activity is an efficient strategy to reduce some changed behaviour and enhance mood.
- Identify appropriate activity resources for the hospital setting.
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