Publisher: Funded by the Australian Government In collaboration with Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration (DCRC) and Dementia Training Australia (DTA)
Purpose
The hub acts as a gateway to access resources under eight content categories in dementia, including: dementia prevention; living with dementia; education for health professionals; and collections of tools (see photo top right). Each resource entry gives key information on how to get the resource, why it is useful, and where to find more information about it.
The DementiaKT Hub is also the new home for the Dementia Outcomes Measurement Suite (DOMS) - an Australian Government-funded initiative to help Australian health professionals understand and use the same tools to measure dementia-related domains.
Learning
It is hoped that The DementiaKT Hub will help to accelerate the knowledge journey for translating research into practice.
Additional Information
There is a toolbox area which provides access to a range of resources useful for dementia-related KT research and evaluation.
Focus On The Person is designed to help families and health professionals be allies in providing person-centred care. It comprises short template forms, written in plain English, to be completed by a family carer. They can be printed out (eg on a home printer) or completed and saved in an on line electronic version - making it easy to keep the information updated. The tool covers 16 topics. Some are everyday domains like 'eating and drinking' (eg dislikes, cultural preferences) and 'communication' (eg 'preferred conversation topics'). Other domains address health issues such as 'usual tablets and medicines', personal care (eg going to the toilet) and falls risk. As an up-to-date record, this information can be quickly and easily provided by family carers to hospital staff to help them provide personalised care to a person with dementia.
