Lee-Fay Low is a Professor in Ageing and Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney.
Australians with dementia and carers receive minimal health treatments and psychosocial supports following diagnosis. This webinar describes their unmet needs for information, psychosocial support, treatments to optimise function and wellbeing.
There is a strong evidence base that physical exercise, cognitive stimulation therapy, occupational therapy and carer programs improve outcomes for people with dementia. There is also emerging evidence for the benefits of multidisciplinary rehabilitation programs and psychotherapy for anxiety and depression associated with dementia.
The webinar presents practical suggestions on how clinicians can help people with dementia and carers obtain rehabilitation and additional supports after diagnosis.
Forward with Dementia provides information for people with dementia and carers on understanding the diagnosis, coming to terms with dementia, managing changes, supporting wellbeing and making plans and decisions.
With thanks to Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA): [ Ссылка ] for assistance with producing this webinar.
REFERENCES PROVIDED IN Q&A SECTION
Relevant information on Forward with Dementia: [ Ссылка ]
00:28:14 New Post-Diagnostic Support program offered by Dementia Australia [ Ссылка ]
00:33:14 The systematic review about evidence for cognitive training is an open access paper: [ Ссылка ]
Bahar-Fuchs, A., Martyr, A., Goh, A. M., Sabates, J., & Clare, L. (2019). Cognitive training for people with mild to moderate dementia. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 3(3), CD013069. [ Ссылка ]
00:37:38 [ Ссылка ] My Life, My Goals
00:41:09 The main webpage for the COPE program is [ Ссылка ]
00:48:15 All of the resources and tools on the 'Forward with dementia' website can be printed for people who would prefer written information or have difficulties getting online
00:49:26 Systematic review presented today at AAG conference re commercially available brain training programs = "insufficient empirical evidence" but still fun to do (Nguyen et al 2021)
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Nguyen, L., Murphy, K., & Andrews, G. (2021). A Game a Day Keeps Cognitive Decline Away? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Commercially-Available Brain Training Programs in Healthy and Cognitively Impaired Older Adults. Neuropsychology review, 10.1007/s11065-021-09515-2. Advance online publication. [ Ссылка ]
00:50:37 Forward with Dementia we welcome feedback on the resources we have developed or any ideas for new resources too!
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00:51:45 War Memorial Hospital, Waverley NSW, runs the evidence based Integrated Rehabilitation for Early Dementia (iREADi) Program.
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00:57:45 At War Memorial Hospital, we have trialled a zoom-version of our iREADi course, and that has worked well. Could be accessed by people in the country or anywhere
01:03:14 I’d like to draw attention to a handbook that assists service providers interested in commencing an evidence informed program to support independence and function for people with dementia. Developed by the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre see: [ Ссылка ]
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01:07:05 Thanks Henry for the info on the lambert initative
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01:08:05 Dr Cathy Taylor has published some lovely work on training communication partners in the language-lead dementias (frontal lobe dementias)
Speech and language therapy approaches to managing primary progressive aphasia [ Ссылка ]
Primary Progressive Aphasia Education and Support Groups: A Clinical Evaluation [ Ссылка ]
Speech and language therapy in primary progressive aphasia: a critical review of current practice [ Ссылка ]
01:08:46 I-HARP is a program that addresses motivation in the delivery of rehabilitation interventions - our nurses and OTs work well. [ Ссылка ]
01:10:10 St Vincents Community OTs are still visiting families.
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