Topic

Palliative care and advance care planning for people with advanced dementia

Content

Course content includes:

  • initiating conversations about advance care planning with people living with different stages of dementia
  • empowering and preparing families to advocate for the person’s end of life care wishes in the future
  • identifying people with dementia who would benefit from a structured assessment of their palliative care needs
  • systematically assessing the palliative care needs of the person living with dementia.

Depth

Intermediate to advanced

Target audience

Registered and enrolled nurses, managers, care coordinators and allied health professionals working in residential and community aged care and primary care settings, dementia consultants, and other health professionals working involved in the care of people living with dementia

Time to complete

Approximately 4 hours to complete the nine modules

Authors

The Advance Project

Comments

The Advance Project offers a range of learning options to support the provision of palliative care and advance care planning in everyday practice.

After completion of this course you will receive a certificate of completion for 4 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours.

Registration required

Yes

Payment required

No

Student support

Yes

Certificate

Yes

Country of origin

Australia

Web Address

https://www.theadvanceproject.com.au/Education-Training/Dementia-Specific-Training/Dementia-Specific-Training-Clinicians-and-Managers

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