Dementia Awareness

Recognition, communication and rights-based practice for practitioners already working with people living with dementia.

Overview

This course is written for practitioners who already support people living with dementia. It assumes you know what dementia looks like across a shift. It is concerned with the harder part of the job: working out what a person is telling you when the words have gone, knowing what the law requires when capacity is in question, and refusing to accept the diagnosis as an explanation for everything that follows.

Most dementia care is delivered by generalists rather than specialists, and around a third of care workers in England are reported to have had no dementia-specific training at all. Ten modules move outwards from the condition itself: what dementia is and how it is recognised, what the law requires when capacity is in question, how to communicate and how to read distress, how to protect physical health, and how to support the family and the person to the end of life. Every module is grounded in the law and guidance as it stands in England and in Wales.

Who this course is for

You will get the most from this course if you already support people living with dementia — it assumes care experience and does not start from first principles.

Learning outcomes

One outcome per module. Each is assessed by the twenty-question assessment at the end of the course.

Career path

Course structure

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