This 1 hour and 13 minute webinar presented by Associate Professor Stephen Macfarlane and hosted by Primary Health Tasmania, is on Dementia Care for GPs: Behaviour support, services and psychotropics.
Focusing on exploring and challenging the use of psychotropic medications in dementia care, the session centred on practical, evidence-informed approaches to managing psychosis and depression in people living with dementia, with an emphasis on critically assessing when psychotropic medications are appropriate, and when alternative strategies should be considered.
The webinar also included the complementary roles of Dementia Support Australia, Dementia Australia, and Dementia Training Australia, and how these organisations can support clinicians, patients, and carers across the dementia care continuum.
Learning Outcomes:
- Further develop knowledge of appropriate psychotropic use in dementia care.
- Understand the services available to support people living with dementia who are experiencing behaviour change.
- Understand the services and support available to carers of people living with dementia.
Speaker information:
Associate Professor Stephen Macfarlane graduated from Monash University in 1991 and spent the next 17 years at Peninsula Health, prior to becoming a psychiatrist in 2003 and being appointed Director of Aged Psychiatry in 2005. In 2008 he spent some time on secondment as Deputy Chief Psychiatrist for Victoria prior to being appointed as Associate professor and Director of Aged Psychiatry at Alfred Health, where he remained until formally joining Hammond Care in 2016 as Head of Clinical Governance for Dementia Support Australia.