Finding the Light in Dementia
How to Communicate & Stay Connected with a Person Living with Dementia Course
This course gives you great insights into how communication is affected by dementia and provides essential tips on how to help the person express their needs, and includes pain assessment and ongoing management.
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 how and why a person struggles to communicate when they have dementia. You will learn tips and approaches to communicate better with the person and how to maintain a connection with them. This course will improve your knowledge and skills, and increase your confidence when caring, communicating and connecting with a person who has dementia including assessing if they have unmet needs such as being in pain and how to help them.
What you will get in this course:
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8 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
“This course has really helped me find the best ways of communicating with our residents. Coupled with the Using Memories to Keep in Touch Course, I feel I have more tools to draw from and am more confident in trying new approaches. We have bought these Courses for all of our staff, who all seem more inspired and are findng out some great ways to connect with our residents.”
Nicky, Care Home Manager
