Quality Dementia Care Series
Resources which contain detailed information that may assist when caring for people with dementia.
Quality Dementia Care 6
Dementia and sexuality - an important topic for all carers of a person with dementia.
Dementia and sexuality is the next important topic for the new Quality Dementia Care Series Book 6, Understanding dementia care and sexuality in residential facilities. Dementia and sexuality can cause embarrassment and upset to people with dementia, their families and carers and care staff. The reality is that issues relating to sexuality are confronting even though sexual expression is part of every human being. A person with dementia is no less a person because of a diagnosis of dementia and will have a need for sexual expression in some form.
The challenge is to reconcile differing values, feelings and morals of those people involved in a way that balances the human rights of the person with dementia and duty of care whether in the community or residential care.
The booklet was launched on Monday 8 November by author Adjunct Associate Professor Sally Garratt in Hobart. The launch also marked the first seminar of the Australian seminar series that visted every state and territory.
Understanding dementia care and sexuality in residential facilities
October 2010
Quality Dementia Care 7
No time like the present: the importance of timely diagnosis
September 2010
Quality Dementia Care 5
Younger onset dementia: a practical guide
February 2009
Quality Dementia Care 4
Understanding younger onset dementia
March 2013
Quality Dementia Care 3
Nurturing the heart: creativity, art therapy and dementia
September 2007
Quality Dementia Care 2
Practice for managers in residential aged care facilities
February 2007
Quality Dementia Care 1
Practice in residential aged care facilities for all staff
February 2007
Diana Kerr - Learning Disability and Dementia DVD
Live Presentation, Canberra, 7 April 2009. Diana is from the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh.
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