Master Class: The Challenge of Longer Term Alcohol Abuse in Older Adults
Seminar Information
1 June - 31 December 2012 Your facility, , Any city, ACT, Australia
Your facility, , Any city, ACT, AustraliaJoin Alice Rota-Bartelink in a Master Class that addresses a particularly difficult problem
Mainstream aged care services are well designed to meet the physical care or basic functional needs of clients but often can not provide the structure to successfully manage neurobehaviourial disability expressed as challenging behaviour arising from long-term alcohol abuse.
Master Class Aim:
To facilitate the transfer of skills and knowledge gained through evaluative research into the provision of appropriate support to clients living with alcohol related brain injury (ARBI).
To deliver education on the effects of long-term alcohol abuse on an older person and advise on strategies to assist service providers with managing behaviours of concern among older clients living in with an ARBI.
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