Finding the Light in Dementia
Creating a Calm, Safe Place Course
This course helps you understand how dementia affects a person’s senses and teaches you tips and approaches for modifying a person’s surroundings to help them navigate their world.
Who this course is for:
This course is for anyone who wants to understand more about how dementia affects a person and learn approaches to help. Whether you are living with dementia, a family member, loved one, family caregiver or a health and social care professional such as:
Care Home Manager
Nurse
Carer /Caregiver
Physiotherapist
Occupational Therapist
Speech and Language Therapist
Pharmacist
Audiologist
Optometrist
Podiatrist
Doctor
What this course provides:
This course explains about how dementia affects a person in terms of their changes in attention, sensory perception, cognition, sleep and mobility. You will learn how to make changes to the person’s surroundings that will help them feel safe and less agitated. This course will improve your knowledge and skills, and increase your confidence when caring with and supporting a person who has dementia.
What you will get in this course:
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9 Lessons (combination of videos, presentations, animations and audio recordings)
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An Activity Book to help you develop your skills
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A Reflective Journal to help you understand what you have learnt and how to put this into practice
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Expert guidance in this course from people living with dementia, caregivers and leading professionals and researchers in the field of dementia
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Easy to use tools and techniques to help you
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A certificate of completion
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Unlimited access to revisit and refresh your knowledge and skills whenever required
What People Are Saying
“Wow I had no idea that dementia affected a patient’s eyesight, I have learnt so much to help me look after our patients. I asked our Manager if I could make some changes to the ward and she helped me follow the ideas in this course, its not my imagination, but I notice the patients do seem less agitated most of the time now, since we’ve done this”
Gemma, Care Assistant
