Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Caregiving, Dementia, and Incontinence
Deakin University and NARI
This course focuses on the psychological and practical aspects of caregiving, dementia, and incontinence. It provides insights into common beliefs about incontinence, their impact on emotions and behaviours, and the importance of communication. The course also gives you knowledge and practical strategies to support a person living with dementia and incontinence.
5 weeks, 3 hours per week
Rebecca Bone
Executive Director, Student Services
Deakin University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe how incontinence and beliefs about incontinence can affect a person’s well-being.
- Adapt communication to meet the continence care needs of a person living with dementia to promote their dignity, respect, comfort, and safety.
- Describe the normal function of the bowel and bladder, the impact of dementia on continence, and factors that may affect bladder and bowel function.
- Identify and have confidence in using a variety of approaches to help a person living with dementia maintain continence and manage incontinence.
- Identify quality sources of information, support, and professional advice about continence care for carers of a person living with dementia.
Syllabus
- Beliefs about incontinence and their impact on emotions and behaviours.
- How to maintain and improve bowel and bladder health.
- How ageing and dementia can affect bowel and bladder function.
- Using a variety of approaches to help a person living with dementia maintain continence and manage incontinence.
- Accessing quality health information and support.
Issued on 14th February 2024
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