Congratulations Darshini Ayton and Marta Woolford, PhD! The National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA) is excited and proud to have been able to support your important project, co-designing dementia education with residents in aged care and their families. 👏 👏 👏 Watch the video detailing their project here: https://lnkd.in/gi-AC73R, and read more below
NHMRC Emerging Leader Investigator, Associate Professor, Deputy Head, Health and Social Care Unit, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Dr. Marta Woolford, PhD and I are excited to share our journey of co-designing dementia education with residents in aged care and their families. Partnering with A/Prof Anita Goh and Robin Harper from National Ageing Research Institute, and the incredible staff, residents, and families at Baptcare homes Brookview and Wattlegrove, we used the world café approach to create Connection Cafes and identify six key dementia topics. A special shoutout to Shannon Storey, who joined us to develop the Connection Cafes content. Over the last two weeks, Shannon piloted the first two topics, "Understanding Dementia" and "Dementia Related Behaviours," at Brookview. The sessions, featuring discussions, interactive activities, and videos, were well received by residents and families. We’re excited to roll out the rest of the education across Baptcare homes. Below is a video detailing our entire project. The dementia education is just the beginning – next, we’ll be implementing blood biomarkers and digital cognitive assessments to aid in the identification and diagnosis of dementia in residential aged care. This phase is in collaboration with the Centre of Research Excellence in Enhanced Dementia Diagnosis (Director Prof Scott Ayton), the Healthy Brain Hub (led by Yen Ying Lim), and Austin Health Memory Clinic (A/Prof Paul Yates and A/Prof Michael Woodward). A huge thank you to Nilu Morawaka and Ben Gatehouse from Baptcare for championing this initiative. Grateful for the support from the National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA) and the Medical Research Future Fund for making this research possible. #DementiaEducation #AgedCare #CoDesign #HealthcareInnovation #TeamWork #Gratitude https://lnkd.in/gqtAqcKq
Dementia education
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Thanks National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA) for supporting our work including through helping create this video to capture the why and how of this research project. Exciting times ahead!
Research Fellow, Health and Social Care Unit, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
3wThank you Darshini Ayton! It is wonderful to be part of this work and even better to have launched the first part of the co-designed dementia education resources for residents and families. Thank you to Baptcare, National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA) and everyone who is supporting this very important work.