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Our courses offer the right balance of practical knowledge and academic excellence and a wide range of study options.
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- Study Mode:
Full-time
Part-time - Delivery Mode:
Online (Off-campus) - Duration:
0.5 year full-time or equivalent part-time - Faculty:
Computing, Health and Science - School:
Nursing and Midwifery - Code:
W90
Graduate Certificate in Dementia Studies
This course is ideally suited to healthcare professionals working with people who have dementia. The course is relevant to acute care, long term residential aged care, and community care settings.
The course has a multidisciplinary focus. The varied backgrounds of students to whom the course is relevant reflect the growing need for high quality care for people with dementia across the health care sector.
The course is aimed at facilitating students' learning in areas relevant to the management of dementia. The key areas addressed are the knowledge and critical approaches required to underpin students' practice as leaders in the area of dementia care.