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  • This is very fortuitous my learners include carers/nurses for 'at home', residential, and hospital sites.

    There has been some horrendous cases of abuse and neglect in the news of late. We've just had a royal commission to review and make recommendations to improve the situation. Luckily my workplace being a not-for-profit haven't been dragged into this.

    There's definitely the impetus to promote best practice and a person centered approach. They have an excellent dementia centre so if we develop content for clients, nostalgic and evocative content could be great. In the passed, they did experiment with VR to help people sense what a person going through the syndrome may feel. The aim was to increase empathy.

    Anyway, maybe we can share anything we may come across.