The Ontario CLRI at Baycrest develops and evaluates innovative educational approaches designed to enhance not only knowledge and skills, but also values and attitudes in learners. With the assistance of interprofessional summer interns, an initial dementia simulation was created and trialed. A final version is presented here in the form of a toolkit. The scripts and resources in this toolkit have evolved over time using a quality improvement approach and are meant to foster participant awareness and insight into living life with frailty and dementia.
This toolkit contains:
- Information facilitators need to know regarding dementia and dementia
- Simulation techniques and sample scenarios based on common experiences of the
elderly in the healthcare system - Additional modifications for the scenarios
- Ideas on how to structure the simulation session for an interprofessional audience,
including the debrief
As a result, this toolkit will allow users to:
- Identify and utilize dementia simulation techniques and scenarios
- Use these simulations to engage participants in reflection and develop a deeper
understanding of dementia and frailty