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AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL
OF DEMENTIA CARE
Essential reading for all those working with
people with dementia
We publish what you
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· Best care practice
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· Putting dementia
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New Resource!
SEXUALITIES & DEMENTIA:
AN EDUCATION RESOURCE FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Caring for people with dementia who express their sexualities continues to be a major
challenge for health professionals. This education resource, targeted at health professionals,
will increase understanding of sexualities for people living with dementia.
The resource aims to:
Increase understanding of the concepts of intimacy, sexuality, sexual behaviours and
expression of various types of sexuality (including the benefits of and barriers to expression
of sexuality)
Identify dementia-related sexual expression
Discuss the roles of health professionals and approaches to the expression of sexuality by
people with dementia
Consider the cognitive capacity of people with dementia to have intimate and sexual
relationships
Provide a framework for developing policies /guidelines on sexualities for people with
dementia
Identify strategies to transfer knowledge of sexualities and dementia into care practices
This resource is available as an online document or in hard copy format and is supported by a
Facilitators guide that provides workshop information for which a `train the trainer' style of
education can be applied in your organisation.
The Queensland Dementia Training Study Centre (DTSC) are also offering a number of
`train the trainer' style workshop sessions aimed at assisting your staff to provide in-house
training within your organisation.
Please contact
qlddtsc@qut.edu.au
for more information on the workshop sessions.
For details on how to order this resource please go to
www.dtsc.com.au
Dementia Training Study Centres are supported by the Australian Government