Webinar Available for this course
Live interactive webinar and onsite face to face training available for this course This course is now being delivered to groups via live interactive webinar as well as onsite face to face and will be delivered by our professional and qualified educators. If you require further information, please complete the booking enquiry form on this page or call 01242 371 999
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.
Info & Booking EnquiryDementia 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:
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Multi-infarct dementia (M.I.D.)
- Lewy body dementia
- Pick’s disease
- 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:
We offer a reduced price for 2 half day courses booked for the same date and same venue.
Onsite Training Locations
Tidal Training provide onsite face to face healthcare training to large and small organisations across the United Kingdom. Our tutors will travel to your workplace or choice of venue and deliver training at a time and date which fits in with your organisation’s work commitments. If you require training outside of normal working hours we will be more than happy to support you. Our clients do not have to pay for mileage or any other added extras.
Information & Pricing
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Onsite Training for Dementia Awareness Training
Dementia Awareness Training courses and all of the courses in our portfolio can be delivered onsite in most cities and surrounding areas in England, Wales and Scotland including:
- Aberdeen
- Bangor
- Bath
- Birmingham
- Bradford
- Brighton and Hove
- Bristol
- Cambridge
- Canterbury
- Cardiff
- Carlisle
- Chester
- Chichester
- Coventry
- Derby
- Dundee
- Durham
- Edinburgh
- Ely
- Exeter
- Glasgow
- Gloucester
- Hereford
- Inverness
- Kingston upon Hull
- Lancaster
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Lichfield
- Lincoln
- Liverpool
- City of London
- Manchester
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Newport
- Norwich
- Nottingham
- Oxford
- Perth
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Portsmouth
- Preston
- Ripon
- Salford
- Salisbury
- Sheffield
- Southampton
- St Albans
- St Davids
- Stirling
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Sunderland
- Swansea
- Truro
- Wakefield
- Wells
- Westminster
- Winchester
- Wolverhampton
- Worcester
- York
- Wherever you are!