Dementia awareness
Venue: Pendleton Business Centre, Pendleton College
Duration: 1 day
Aims:
- To raise awareness of the types and causes of dementia and the difficulties which may be caused, with helpful solutions in dealing with the problems.
- To make the carer aware of how to act and speak appropriately, with suggestions as to how to spend time productively with a person who has dementia.
Learning outcomes:
Have the knowledge and understanding to:
- Be able to differentiate between acute and chronic confusion AND between treatable and non-treatable confusion (dementia)
- Have a better understanding of the causes of dementia
- Be able to recognise the problems caused
- Be better equipped to deal with the problems such as
- Wandering
- Aggression
- Inappropriate behaviours
- Hygiene
- Know the importance of body language and ways to reassure
- Have a clear knowledge of the range of activities which can be tried.
E-learning support
The Scils website contains an e-learning course on 'How to respond to Dementia and Confustion' (see below) that you may wish to read in preparation for this course. Please see the pages on Scils for more details.
Downloadable documents
If you are unable to view documents of these types, our downloads page provides links to viewing software.
Your form will be emailed to sctp@salford.gov.uk
This page was last updated on 29 April 2008
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