Description
The Dementia Care Training Library is an important new project designed to provide authoritative training materials across a wide range of dementia-specific topics. These topics have been chosen to relate directly to the learning needs of care staff working in a range of settings, including those dedicated to dementia and those where people with dementia are supported alongside people with diverse needs. The materials will help learners to develop and maintain person-centred practice.
The Starter Pack provides trainers with a master ring binder and two core modules of content: ‘Dementia Awareness’ and ‘Understanding Behaviour Viewed as Challenging.’ Over time, an array of further discretionary modules will become available in areas such as communication, sexuality, teamwork, the physical environment and quality of life, enabling trainers to build a customised library of the content they need to meet the needs of learners and the people they care for.
The training materials take an Action Learning approach. This means a balance of information and practice-based activities. It allows learners to reflect on and apply new knowledge in real time as a team, which in turn leads to improved practice in care.
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Authors
Tim Forester Morgan is co-founder and Director of the Dementia Training Company. The company offers a range of programmes to equip people with the skills they need to enable individuals with dementia to live well. Tim has previously been responsible for the delivery and management of a wide range of consultation services for care settings requiring guidance on therapeutic environments for people with dementia. He is an NVQ/QCF Assessor and has been a Dementia Care Mapper since 2001.
Sarah Mould is Specialist Practitioner for Dementia at University Hospital Southampton. She qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 1991 and has clinical and managerial experience in Older People’s Mental Health Services. Sarah has an MSc in Dementia Studies and has been a Director of Training for a specialist dementia organisation. In 2011, she co-founded the Dementia Training Company where she remained as Tim’s co-Director until 2019.
Content
Introduction
INTRODUCING DEMENTIA
1: Definitions, prevalence and risk factors
Module 1:
THE LIVED EXPERIENCE FROM FIRST SIGNS TO DIAGNOSIS
1: The individual lived experience of dementia
2: Signs, symptoms & identification of dementia
3: The assessment and diagnosis of dementia
4: Dementia risk reduction and prevention
Appendices and Worksheets
References and Further Reading
Module 2:
DEMENTIA – COMMUNICATION AND BEHAVIOURS VIEWED AS CHALLENGING
1: Communication with people with dementia
2: Positive interactions with people with dementia
3: Supporting people to live well with dementia
4: Rethinking behaviours viewed as challenging
Appendices and Worksheets
References and Further Reading
Audience
Managers or providers of health and social care services, frontline social care workers, workforce development managers, family carers of people with dementia.
Details
ISBN: 9781912755530
Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
Publication date: 26th July 2021
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