Course Title: Basic dementia awareness (3 hour course) Course Summary: This course is aimed at administrators and staff working in non-frontline roles where an understanding of the difficulties that arise for people with dementia and their families and carers is required. We will explore what a diagnosis of dementia means, the key difficulties people experience with their activities of daily living, arising from deterioration in memory, attention and logical thinking ability. We will also focus on why communicating with a person with dementia is perceived to be complex and suggest some strategies that may help.
Course Title: Advanced dementia awareness (1 day course 10AM – 4PM) Course Summary: This course is aimed at ancillary staff in daily contact with people with dementia including administrative, catering, domestic, laundry, maintenance and drivers. People in daily contact with people with dementia need to understand the key difficulties people experience with their activities of daily living, arising from deterioration in memory, attention and logical thinking ability. We will explore issues surrounding the behavioural stages of dementia and how the progressive deterioration of the disease affects daily living. We will consider the impact that environments have on people living with dementia and how we can improve them. We will also focus on why communicating with a person with dementia is perceived to be complex and suggest some strategies that may help.
Course Title: Dementia care-giving in the community (1 day course 9AM - 5PM) Course Summary This course is aimed at frontline staff working in supported living settings and PA staff working in people’s own homes. The course will cover what dementia is and is not, an understanding of the key difficulties people experience with their activities of daily living, arising from deterioration in memory, attention and logical thinking ability. We will explore issues surrounding the behavioural stages of dementia and how the progressive deterioration of the disease affects daily living. We will consider the impact that environments have on people living with dementia and how we can improve them. We will also focus on why communicating with a person with dementia is perceived to be complex and suggest some strategies that may help when behaviour is affected by feelings of fear and anger.
Course Title: Advanced dementia care-giving in residential settings (2 day course 10AM – 4PM or 4 half-day sessions) Course Summary This course is aimed at frontline staff in residential/nursing homes and those working in supported living settings and people’s own homes (as described in course 3 above) if they require more in-depth knowledge. The course will cover what dementia is and is not, an understanding of the key difficulties people experience with their activities of daily living, arising from deterioration in memory, attention and logical thinking ability. We will explore issues surrounding the behavioural stages of dementia and how the progressive deterioration of the disease affects daily living and communication. We will consider the impact that environments have on people living with dementia and how we can improve them. We will also focus on why communicating with a person with dementia is perceived to be complex and suggest strategies that may help when behaviour is affected by feelings of fear and anger. We will look at some examples of how we can use planned interventions to support people when they have difficulty with decision making, when we need to make best interest decisions on their behalf that will enhance their wellbeing and support them with empathy and understanding.
Course Title: Complex Care Workshop Course Summary These workshops will be supported by professionals and are aimed at frontline staff working with people with complex needs, confounded by a diagnosis of dementia. We will consider the values and core principles which underpin our work with people living with dementia. We will include exploration into understanding of the Human Rights Act, Mental Capacity Act, DoLS and information in the Restraint Reduction Network and the 6 Safeguarding Principles of the Care Act (2014) Empowerment, Protection, Prevention, Proportionality, Partnership, and Accountability. Ideally, delegates will have considerable experience of working with people with dementia and have undertaken a minimum of the 2-day course described in 4. above or Dr Gemma Jones’s 4-day course.