HSRAANZ July 2025 Webinar - The impact of a hospital-based special care unit on behavioural and psychological symptoms in older people living with dementia

📅 Date: Tuesday 29 JULY 2025

🕰️ Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM (AEST)

📍 Location: Online (Zoom)

🎙️Topic: The impact of a hospital-based special care unit on behavioural and psychological symptoms in older people living with dementia
While one-in-four medical inpatients have dementia with up to 60% experiencing changed behaviours in hospital and high rates of adverse outcomes, hospitals have not developed effective models-of-care for managing behaviours in dementia. Dr Graham reports on the effective implementation of a specialised hospital-based model of care, demonstrating reduced symptom severity alongside reduced psychotropics and restraint use.

🗣️ Presented by: Frederick Graham

Fred is a Clinical Nurse Consultant Dementia and Delirium at the Alexandra Hospital (PAH), Brisbane and Senior Research Fellow with the Australian Frailty Network, Centre for Health Services Research, University of Queensland. As a clinician-researcher, Fred is recipient of 2023 Metro South Health Future Research Leader Fellowship focusing on models of care and capability building for hospital care of people with dementia and delirium and leading research into identifying pain-related agitation phenotypes. Fred is currently a clinical lead for the Queensland Health Improvement Unit project, PROVIDE – Practical Redesign Options for Violence in Dementia and Delirium.