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Location

Melbourne, VIC

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Date

Start: Thu 27 Feb 2025
End: Fri 28 Feb 2025
RSVP: Mon 17 Feb 2025

Time

Start: 09:00 AM
Check-in: 08:30 AM
End: 04:30 PM

Registration

OTA Non-member Price: $1,365.00 Add to Cart
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Untangling Dementia for Occupational Therapists: Learn essential practice skills and enhance your dementia toolkit

 

INTRODUCTION

This workshop is part of CPD Empower, the must-attend event designed to inspire, connect, and equip you with cutting-edge tools for success.    

CPD Empower offers a series of 2-day and 1-day workshops led by expert presenters, intimate group sizes for meaningful interaction, and stunning venues that foster collaboration, these events are set to reshape your practice. Networking breaks and an evening event provide time to recharge, connect, and share stories with fellow OTs.  

Don’t miss your chance to build new skills, gain fresh perspectives, and connect with a vibrant OT community.   

For more information about CPD Empower, click here  

 

SESSION OVERVIEW

Occupational therapists play a vital role in dementia care, supporting and empowering people living with dementia and their families to engage in meaningful activities, maintain independence and improve quality of life. This two-day practical focused workshop, delivered by experienced occupational therapists provides the opportunity to build your dementia specific knowledge and skills and elevate your practice. 

You will have the opportunity to: 

  • Increase your understanding of different presentations, types and stages of dementia including younger-onset and rare forms of dementia, and how the features of different conditions impact therapeutic approaches and interventions 

  • Discuss the rationales, golas and principles of OT assessment of people living with dementia including the rationale, goals and principles, with a focus on community-based practice 

  • Explore relevant assessment tools and their use in different dementia conditions and clinical settings  

  • Examine a range of evidence-based interventions for people living with dementia and their family/carers and provide practical advice about incorporating these into practice 

  • Consider occupational therapy frameworks and models of dementia care with a focus on assisting participants to reframe the OT role in dementia within the broader health and social care system, and reflect on how the profession might better support the needs of people living with dementia (both young and later age of onset) and their families 

  • Develop your own dementia toolkit for use in your specific context, drawing on your learnings from the workshop and expertise of the presenters 

By attending this workshop, you will: 

  • Learn to recognise the presenting symptoms and trajectories of a range of common and rare dementia conditions, and to identify relevant clinical features to consider in assessment and intervention planning 

  • Become familiar with a range of assessment approaches, scales and tools appropriate for use with people at different stages of dementia and learn to select appropriate methods of assessment for different settings, stages and purposes 

  • Be able to identify and implement a range of evidence-based interventions appropriate for people at various stages of dementia, with a focus on working in community settings/with clients still living at home 

  • Have the opportunity to develop your own toolkit of relevant dementia tools and resources for use in the roles and settings you work 
     

THIS SESSION IS SUITABLE FOR

OTs at foundational or intermediate, interested in increasing their OT specific dementia assessments and intervention skills and knowledge. 

 

PRESENTERS

 

A person smiling at cameraDescription automatically generated            Laine Bradley 

Laine is an experienced occupational therapist who has worked across a range of settings in including public health, community, residential care, NDIS and the private sector. Laine has extensive experience in the assessment and management of cognitive impairment and dementia, and is a Director of Specialist Memory Services, a dementia diagnosis and management service. Laine’s experience includes work as a dementia consultant providing specialist advice and support to clients, families, and staff in managing changes to cognition, behaviour, and complex care issues. With a Master of Clinical Leadership, Laine has delivered dementia education to health professionals and the public. She has a special interest and expertise in rare and young onset dementias and is involved in various projects and initiatives to promote better supports and outcomes for these groups.