1. PgRC Support - suggestions:
    • Case specific consultation using the PIECES framework to assist front-line staff with care planning and interventions.
    • Case-based presentation.
    • Assistance and support in the application and interpretation of assessment tools for care planning and treatment of persons with cognitive/mental health needs and associated behavioural issues (this may be 1:1 or small group).

  2. Topic-specific presentation - suggestions:
    • Introduction to PIECES Quick Start.
    • Agitation and aggression in dementia.
    • Understanding dementia (focusing on "related" dementia e.g., Lewy Body, vascular, frontal-temporal dementia)
    • Understanding...
      • Rummaging and hoarding
      • Sexually expressive behaviour
      • Suspiciousness and paranoia
      • Withdrawal
    • Depression in later life; depression in the LTC facility.
    • Delirium - implications and interventions.
    • Understanding bipolar disorder in older people.
    • Schizophrenia in older people.
    • Anxiety in older people.
    • Obsessive-compulsive disorders in the elderly.
    • Behavioural assessment and treatment.
    • Psychotropic drugs and how they work.
    • Adapting the environment to help manage agitation.
    • Helping people with dementia in activities of daily living.
    • Managing work-related stress.