Dementia Awareness Training

209,600 will develop dementia this year, that’s one every three minutes. 70 per cent of people in care homes have dementia or severe memory problems. Currently, some 850,000 people are thought to be living with the illness, this expected to rise to one million by 2025 and two million by 2051. Dementia is a growing challenge to health and social care provision and society in general.

Dementia awareness training helps individuals understand what dementia is and how and why dementia manifests itself so that individual’s in support feel equipped to put into practice the practical responses to dementia care.

Course Content

• Person centred care
• What dementia care is?
• What dementia care is not?
• What is dementia?
• Types of dementia including: 

1. Alzheimer’s disease 
2. Multi-infarct dementia (M.I.D.) 
3. Lewy body dementia 
4. Pick’s disease 
5. Korsakoff’s syndrome

• Aphasia/Apraxia/Agnosia
• Early stages of dementia
• The progressive stages
• Later stage dementia
• Informing the sufferer
• How significant others cope
• Managing risk
• Informed judgements
• Advocacy
• Life history
• Setting goals
• Communication
• Medication
• Environment
• Behavioural difficulties
• Wandering
• Food and nutrition
• Continence
• Activities

On completion of this course delegates will be able to:

Recognise the signs and symptoms of dementia

Be aware of applications which may be of practical benefit to the dementia sufferer and support worker.

Course Assessment and Certification

There will be continuous tutor assessment, there is no final examination.

Those students who complete the course and are deemed to have reached the required standard will be awarded a certificate that is valid for 3 years.

This half day course is often booked with these half day courses:

• Person Centred Care Training
• Mental Health Awareness

We offer a reduced price for 2 half day courses booked for the same date and same venue.