DUETcare™ provides face to face & online dementia courses, study days, webinars and training through its Finding the Light in Dementia brand (click through on the bold text) and includes access to a self- directed online dementia training programme that ‘significantly impacts on practice.”
The focus of the DUETcare™ philosophy is to develop a connection between the individual requiring care and all persons enabling, empowering or providing their care. As a result of the training, staff and caregivers feel more confident and safe in their roles and people with complex conditions such as dementia and Parkinson’s disease feel understood. We also care about our trainees with our Activity Books, Reflective Journals and Wellbeing Hub that are carefully designed to promote their personal and professional development.
Based on core values of putting the care back into Health and Social Care, DUETcare™ focuses on the person with the condition and the people around them – this is at the heart of our training programmes.
DUETcare™ training is co created with people living with chronic conditions, caregivers and leading professionals and researchers in the field and is based on up to date person centred research. Our resources are creative, innovative and enjoyable with films, audios, animations and presentations.
Jane Mullins is the Founder of DUETcare™ Ltd
Please see below for some examples of our training materials
Get in touch: contact@duetcare.co.uk to discuss how we may help you with your training needs
Jim at Teatime
My Favourite Things
This film shows the importance of using objects and the senses in stimulating memory and conversation with a person living with dementia
Aren’t Our Brains Great?!!
This animation is an introduction to understanding how our brains work, how dementia can affect the brain and how it may affect a person
Why DUETcare?
We are experts in the field of older adult and neurological conditions and dementia training and provide consultancy for individuals, teams and organisations who seek to deliver outstanding person-centred care to enable the people they care with to live well. We have a team of highly qualified trainers and associates who are selected for their professional experience, skills, knowledge and dedication to improving the lives of people with dementia and other age related conditions.
Our training programmes encompass both health and social care settings i.e. residential and nursing and medical care, domiciliary and care management environments and have been developed from a number of sources:
Person and Carer involvement
The design and flexibility of DUETcare™ has been informed by listening to the voice and observing people with such conditions through both practitioner experience and through the PhD research interviews and conversations carried out by Dr Jane Mullins, creator of DUETcare™
Jane’s experience extends to facilitating research with people who have dementia, creative industry personnel and designers to explore solutions for some of the challenges they face due to their condition. She has also been a researcher on the Hearing Loss in Place study at Swansea University aiming to increase understanding of the difficulties people with hearing loss experience in a variety of noisy and distracting places and how such noise affects not only hearing, but also attention, cognition, wellbeing and social interaction. The evidence will form the basis of addressing the problem and raise awareness of the issue amongst the public, retail & travel sectors and in making hearing loss-related changes to environments.
Extensive Practitioner experience
DUETcare™ is created as a flexible provision of specialist training modules, face to face training days, webinars and study days in co creation with people living with the conditions, leading professionals and researchers in the field of older adult, neurological conditions and dementia care.
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DUETcare™ uses a creative innovative approach to learning using experiential methods
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DUETcare™ is developed by a dementia nurse consultant, in co creation with caregivers, psychologists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, specialist textile designers, social science researchers, artists, filmakers and musicians
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Training content directly links research to practice
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DUETcare™ offers a modular approach making it accessible to all learners and flexible to their learning needs and can be transferable to all staff
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DUETcare™ follows a values based approach and not just on awareness
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DUETcare™ is evaluated independently by Swansea University by quantitative and qualitative methods and evolves based on those results to ensure it produces the outcomes required
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DUETcare™ is linked to National Occupational Standards for Health and Social Care
Please click through to Finding the Light in Dementia in bold above for more information