A Clinician’s BPSD Field Guide 2023: Understanding and helping people experiencing changed behaviours and psychological symptoms associated with dementia is a ‘travel size’ hands-on summary of the comprehensive document A Clinician’s BPSD Guide 2023: Understanding and helping people experiencing behaviours and psychological symptoms associated with dementia (BPSD)*.
UNSW Sydney was funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care to develop this Field Guide as part of a suite of updated resources. These resources also include two apps developed to support carers and clinicians caring for people living with dementia who present with changed behaviours and/or psychological symptoms.
This summary Guide was developed for professionals such as a clinicians working in residential aged care, community care and acute care settings with a role in caring for people with dementia, who present with BPSD. It provides easy access to key messages, descriptions of the most common BPSD, potential causes and brief clinical scenarios to guide assessment and outline strategies for addressing BPSD.
Hard copies of the Clinician’s BPSD Field Guide 2023 are available from the BPSD team at CHeBA, free of charge, pending availability. Email Kim Burns or download the pdf via the link below.
*This abbreviation is used respectfully as a shorthand label for communication between professionals supporting people with dementia. For more information about consumer preferences on terminology, please consult the Dementia Language Guidelines developed by Dementia Australia.
