Overview
Empowerment and the rights of people with dementia are central themes of this unit. You will examine models of care and best practice guidelines, to determine their capacity to meet the needs of people with dementia. Ethical and legal issues encountered by people with dementia and those caring for them will be identified. You will design strategies to support those living alongside and/or caring for a person with dementia.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2019
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Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
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Feedback from DDLT and Dean SNMSS
Due to low enrolments, this unit is currently under review for sustainability. The current curriculum and learning content will be modified to aid the development of the new undergraduate program in Healthy Ageing for the Bachelor of Social Work (Honours).
The course and unit are currently under review for sustainability.
- Evaluate models of care for people with dementia
- Analyse the ethical and legal consequences of living with dementia
- Determine best practice guidelines and recommendations to support people with dementia and justify their appropriateness for practice to support a qualify of life for those experiencing dementia symptoms
- Develop recommendations to support people caring for a person with dementia.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||
| 4 - Research | ||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||
| 8 - First Nations Knowledges | ||||
| 9 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 50% | |||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 50% | |||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
a.holt2@cqu.edu.au
Week 1
Begin Date: 11 Mar 2019Module/Topic
Welcome to DEME 20003!
Module 1 - Models of Care
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Refer to the Moodle site. Read the introductory information.
Begin Module 1 activities.
Review Assessment requirements.
Week 2
Begin Date: 18 Mar 2019Module/Topic
Module 1- Models of Care
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Refer to the Moodle site. Continue with Module 1 activities.
Begin preparing for Assessment 1.
Week 3
Begin Date: 25 Mar 2019Module/Topic
Module 2 - Ethical and legal considerations
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Refer to the Moodle site. Begin Module 2 activities.
Continue working on Assessment 1.
Week 4
Begin Date: 01 Apr 2019Module/Topic
Module 2 - Ethical and legal considerations
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Refer to the Moodle site. Continue with Module 2 activities.
Finalise Assessment 1.
Week 5
Begin Date: 08 Apr 2019Module/Topic
Module 2 - Ethical and legal considerations
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Refer to the Moodle site. Continue with Module 2 activities.
Week 5 - Assessment 1 due!
Written Assessment Report - Due: Week 5 Friday (12 Apr 2019) 5:00 pm AESTWritten Report - Due: Week 5 Friday (12 Apr 2019) 5:00 pm AEST
Vacation Week
Begin Date: 15 Apr 2019Module/Topic
Enjoy your study-free week!
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 6
Begin Date: 22 Apr 2019Module/Topic
Module 3 - Best practice models and guidelines
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Refer to the Moodle site. Begin working on Module 3 activities.
Week 7
Begin Date: 29 Apr 2019Module/Topic
Module 3 - Best practice models and guidelines
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Refer to the Moodle site. Continue working on Module 3 activities.
Begin preparation for Assessment 2.
Week 8
Begin Date: 06 May 2019Module/Topic
Module 3 - Best practice models and guidelines
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Refer to the Moodle site. Continue with Module 3 activities.
Continue working on Assessment 2.
Week 9
Begin Date: 13 May 2019Module/Topic
Module 4 - Recommendations
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Refer to the Moodle site. Begin Module 4 activities.
Continue working on Assessment 2.
Week 10
Begin Date: 20 May 2019Module/Topic
Module 4 - Recommendations
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Refer to the Moodle site. Begin Module 4 activities.
Finalise Assessment 2.
Week 11
Begin Date: 27 May 2019Module/Topic
Module 4 - Recommendations
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Refer to the Moodle site. Continue with Module 4 activities.
Week 11 - Assessment 2 due!
Misconceptions about Dementia and its Implications on Practice (Written Assessment) Due: Week 11 Friday (31 May 2019) 5:00 pm AESTMisperceptions about Dementia and Implications on Practice Due: Week 11 Friday (31 May 2019) 5:00 pm AEST
Week 12
Begin Date: 03 Jun 2019Module/Topic
Review and consolidation
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Refer to the Moodle site. Be sure to contact your Lecturer with any questions or queries.
Review/Exam Week
Begin Date: 10 Jun 2019Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Exam Week
Begin Date: 17 Jun 2019Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Written Assessment
Task Description
This task is designed to provide you with an opportunity to prepare a report about your chosen model of care for people with dementia. It draws on your knowledge and understanding of frameworks/models designed to meet the needs of the person with dementia and ethical and legal considerations in providing this care.
You have been invited by the board of management of a community service to prepare a report on the services they provide to people with dementia. They have asked you to nominate one client of your choice to illustrate the ethical and legal implications of providing care for people with dementia. You will need to create an example of a person with a dementia and provide the reader with some details about this (fictitious) community service, to demonstrate your mastery of course concepts.
This task requires you to:
Step1.
· Identify a fictitious or identity protected service in the community who provides services to people with dementia including an example of a person who may be a client of this service
· Identify a model of care for this person with dementia and justify why you have selected this particular model as the most appropriate model for this community service
Step 2.
Using your client as an example:
· Discuss the ethical and legal considerations when providing services to a person who has been diagnosed with dementia
· Identify the complexities of ensuring the person with dementia is protected both ethically and legally whilst receiving services
· Analyse how effectively the chosen model of care assists in ensuring ethical and legal responsibilities are met. Provide examples to justify your argument
Step 3.
- Critically discuss potential/actual facilitators and barriers to effective implementation of the model chosen to ensure people with dementia are treated ethically and legally
· Draw conclusions about the implications of issues for policy and/or practice development within the community service to ensure the ethical and legal needs of the person with dementia are met
- You are required to use a variety of credible academic resources including government reports, health and aged sector reports and published journal articles to support your essay. All references must be from 2008 and beyond
Word count: 2000 (+/- 10% excluding references)
The word count is considered from the first word of the introduction to the last word of the conclusion. It excludes the cover page, abstract, contents page and reference list. It includes in-text references and direct quotations.
Due date: Week 5 (Friday 12.04.19 - 5.00pm AEST)
Total percentage – 50% of overall mark
______________________________________________________________________________________
Week 5 Friday (12 Apr 2019) 5:00 pm AEST
via turnitin and Moodle
Week 6 Monday (22 Apr 2019)
via Moodle site
Please refer to Moodle site for Assessment Rubric
- Evaluate models of care for people with dementia
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
2 Written Assessment
Task Description:
This task is designed to provide you with an opportunity to prepare a report about current best practice guidelines and recommendations and their appropriateness for supporting the needs for a person with dementia and their support people.
This task requires you to:
Step 1.
· Identify current best practice guidelines and recommendations for supporting a person with dementia and the people living alongside them who provide support
Step 2.
· Identify the complexities of ensuring a person supporting a person with dementia received appropriate support
· Critically analyse how effectively and to what extent the current guidelines support the person with dementia and their support person
Step 3.
· Critically discuss potential/actual facilitators and barriers to effective implementation of guidelines identified
· Provide recommendations for supporting people with dementia and the people caring for them based on your findings
-You are required to use a variety of credible academic resources including government reports, health and aged sector reports and published journal articles to support your essay. All references must be from 2008 and beyond
Word count: 2000 (+/- 10% excluding references)
The word count is considered from the first word of the introduction to the last word of the conclusion. It excludes the cover page, abstract, contents page and reference list. It includes in-text references and direct quotations.
Due date: Week 11 (Friday 31.05.19 -5.00pm AEST)
Total percentage – 50% of overall mark
Week 11 Friday (31 May 2019) 5:00 pm AEST
via turnitin and Moodle
Review/Exam Week Friday (14 June 2019)
via Moodle site
Please refer to Moodle site for Assessment Rubric
- Analyse the ethical and legal consequences of living with dementia
- Determine best practice guidelines and recommendations to support people with dementia and justify their appropriateness for practice to support a qualify of life for those experiencing dementia symptoms
- Develop recommendations to support people caring for a person with dementia.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
