Retirement living workers
Professional development, training and resources for retirement living workers.
- D-Esc
D-Esc provides virtual reality (VR) training for a behavioural emergency, designed for participants working in health care, caring for people living with dementia.
- Environmental audits: dementia enabling environments
Our team of consultants can help you create environments that enable people living with dementia to feel supported and engaged and live as independently as possible.
- Applying a problem solving approach to behaviours
Your team will learn how to apply a systematic approach to problem solving changed behaviours and provide positive support strategies for people living with dementia.
- Establishing carer support groups
The course is designed for health professionals and volunteers to establish, lead and sustain a dementia carer support group.
- Enabling EDIE
EDIE is an immersive virtual-reality workshop that enables participants to see the world through the eyes of a person living with dementia.
- Nutrition and dementia: food for thought
Explore the importance of eating well, the impact of dementia and review the standards and recommendations relevant to your practice in the workplace.
- Communicating in a person-centred way
In this course you will explore communication for people living with dementia and how to influence people to promote positive communication.
- Achieving purposeful engagement
Enable your team to create meaningful, purposeful engagement for people living with dementia. By understanding an individual’s needs, staff can plan engaging activities.
- Talk with Ted
Talk with Ted is a realistic online simulation designed to support respectful communication with people living with dementia.
- Engaging in the outdoors
Explore the benefits of engaging in nature and the outdoors for people living with dementia.
- Dine with Ted (VR)
This immersive onsite workshop challenges you to see the dining experience through the eyes of a person living with dementia using virtual reality and avatar technology.
- Dementia and pain in residential care
Raise your awareness of pain in residential aged care, identify common causes of pain and manage pain for people living with dementia.
- Ask Annie
With short, practical and interactive modules, the Ask Annie app helps care workers fit dementia care skills development into their busy day.