Dementia Care: Evidence-Based Educational Tool for Staff and Family Members

DEMENTIA CARE
EVIDENCE BASED
TOOLN a m e o f t h e s t u d e n t :
N a m e o f t h e u n i v e r s i t y:
A u t h o r n o t e :

Introduction
• The educational tool has been developed for
the target group of dementia care staff and
their family members.
• The chosen issue is the gap in education and
knowledge in the target patient groups and
their family members regarding the disease
and how to address the disease (Griffiths et
al. 2015).
• The tool will take into consideration changing
the level of knowledge and understanding on
Dementia care and addressing challenging or
complex behavior

The educational tool attempts to address the identified gaps in the
knowledge and understanding among dementia care staff and family carers
of patients.
The tool also attempts to explore the strategies to be incorporated into the
program so that all care needs of the target population can be made.
The education gap of the caregivers, health workers and the family members
of the target Alzheimer patient groups is the resistant behavior of the
patients requiring dementia Care.
The resistance is mainly facilitated by the agitation, irritation and aggression
brought forth by the dependency and challenge of loving with dementia.
Hence, the primary aim is to address the gaps focuses entirely on the
dementia care, which is one of the most fundamental challenges that
Dementia patients and their family members face.
Aim and objective of the tool

Target Group
• Target group refers to the population based on the needs of which the education
tool or program is designed.
• In this case target population are the dementia care staff providing in –patient and
residential support to enhance their knowledge and understanding of how to handle
patients with challenging behaviour.
• Along with that, the family members, especially the carers of the dementia patients
represent the second part of the target group.
• Their lack of knowledge and understanding in handling the challenging behaviour
and the resistance of dementia patients will be addressed by the tool as well.