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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).
- 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.
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