Scenario: You are working at the aged-care service providing home care to the Brody’s. After one of your visits to the Brody's, you have asked your supervisor about Mrs Brody's increasing...

Scenario: You are working at the aged-care service providing home care to the Brody’s. After one of your visits to the Brody's, you have asked your supervisor about Mrs Brody's increasing forgetfulness. While talking with you about assessing dementia in home-care clients, your supervisor congratulates you for raising this as an issue for Mrs Brody, and comments that in her experience, many students don't know enough about dementia. Your supervisor asks you to do a 10-minute talk on dementia at the next staff meeting.




Question for On-line Discussion Week 10: Why is it important to teach under-graduate health students about dementia?