Dementia Support Plan

Through our community care, residential aged care, health, allied health, and all our community care services, AURL have developed substantial experience in caring for and supporting people with several types of cognitive impairments such as acquired brain injuries and different types of dementia. This covers a broad range of client functionality, from those with significant dependence and remaining in bed, through to higher levels of functioning and independence.

We focus on the person’s strengths and capacities, encouraging and supporting clients to continue to carry out their normal preferred activities wherever possible. Each client’s supports are individually tailored to their requirements. Activities included in a client’s support plan may include: developing and referring to a documented task description that is sequential and easy to follow; use of visual aids and prompts; repeated instruction and coaching for specific tasks; guidance, prompting and supervision of client when they undertake the task. A client’s support plan may incorporate a blend of various levels of assistance provided, in accordance with the client’s capacity to perform the activity independently. …show more content…
For example, it is frequently necessary to re-examine triggers, antecedents, and precipitating factors that may precede a behaviour as the progression of the disease (e.g. MND, MS, ABI, dementia). Similarly, the nature of the brain injury can influence a person’s understanding of their world, impact on their ability to communicate, display inappropriate behaviours or result in increasing disorientation, all of which may precipitate increased or changed