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This project will use an online interactive training course to promote wider and more rapid adoption of the existing person-centred Volunteer Dementia and Delirium Care Program (VDDCP), to support higher quality care for people living with dementia and/or delirium in hospital settings across Australia.
Providing person-centred care in hospitals to people living with dementia and/or delirium is best practice and results in better outcomes, for both patients and their carers. In Australia, people living with dementia account for around 200,000 hospitalisations each year, and delirium is one of the most common hospital-acquired complications. Improving person-centred care for this extensive group has the potential for far reaching impact on quality and costs of hospital care. However, task-oriented and medically focused hospital environments are not conducive to supporting person-centred care, with significant time constraints and staffing limitations contributing to poor care outcomes, including death.
Volunteers have provided a way of addressing this crisis, by supporting care which identifies and meets the physical, social and emotional needs of each patient; however, the reach of volunteer training to-date has been constrained by face-to-face delivery. This proposal to develop and trial an innovative online interactive VDDCP training course is in direct response to urgent calls from our long-term consumer, volunteer, hospital and government partners for improving person-centred acute hospital care for people living with dementia and/or delirium. Being involved in the journey and witnessing the effectiveness of the face-to-face training, these partners are committed to an online version that ensures broader VDDCP uptake, whilst continuing to facilitate positive outcomes for volunteers, patients and their carers.
Providing person-centred care in hospitals to people living with dementia and/or delirium is best practice and results in better outcomes, for both patients and their carers. In Australia, people living with dementia account for around 200,000 hospitalisations each year, and delirium is one of the most common hospital-acquired complications. Improving person-centred care for this extensive group has the potential for far reaching impact on quality and costs of hospital care. However, task-oriented and medically focused hospital environments are not conducive to supporting person-centred care, with significant time constraints and staffing limitations contributing to poor care outcomes, including death.
Volunteers have provided a way of addressing this crisis, by supporting care which identifies and meets the physical, social and emotional needs of each patient; however, the reach of volunteer training to-date has been constrained by face-to-face delivery. This proposal to develop and trial an innovative online interactive VDDCP training course is in direct response to urgent calls from our long-term consumer, volunteer, hospital and government partners for improving person-centred acute hospital care for people living with dementia and/or delirium. Being involved in the journey and witnessing the effectiveness of the face-to-face training, these partners are committed to an online version that ensures broader VDDCP uptake, whilst continuing to facilitate positive outcomes for volunteers, patients and their carers.
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 1/08/25 → 31/07/27 |
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