Active Ageing

The Dementia Care course is a modular programme comprising six core modules and two further modules chosen from a range of options.  Modules can be undertaken as a whole certificate course or they can be purchased and presented individually as stand alone, continuous professional development modules.  Each module lasts for half a day.  Modules commissioned by a single provider can be located close to your workplace and a time to suit the workforce. 

All of the modules include:

Face to face facilitation / presentations using up-to-date practice based knowledge, research, policy and law

A stimulating and varied range of learning and teaching approaches including:  group work, discussion, problem solving, individual reflection and goal planning, written and audio-visual material

Additional reading

Opportunities to achieve academic credit by successful completion of an assignment and associated study. 

The course is particularly aimed at health and social care workers in:  

• Care homes
• Day care
• Respite services
• Home care teams
• Specialist domiciliary teams
• Hospital wards
• Social care and combined teams

The experience of living with dementia

The experience of dementia

The impact that a diagnosis of dementia has on those concerned

Concerns and fears facing those with dementia

The person with dementia

Factors which establish a person’s uniqueness

How personal differences influence a person’s individual experience of dementia?

Different dementia diagnoses

How can the way we relate to people with dementia help to treat each person as a unique individual?  

Positive relationships in dementia care

What sorts of challenges are encountered when attempting to engage with those experiencing dementia?

What helps to promote good communication and positive relationships?

The importance of involvement and participation

Empowering practice in dementia care

What is ‘empowerment’ and how practice can be empowering / disempowering for those with dementia?

Why is empowerment important and why is it difficult to achieve?

What should we do about risk and risk assessment/risk taking?

Attitudes and values in dementia care

 Explore how discriminatory attitudes to older people and those with dementia happen

Look at our own attitudes and views about ageing – to what extent do we have prejudices about ageing and dementia?

What is discrimination and how can they impact on discrimination?

What can we do to challenge discrimination and prejudice about dementia?

Experiences of informal carers

What are the implications for family members and friends when a person is diagnosed with dementia?

How can informal care and support can be a challenge and also a benefit or positive experience?

Impacts of caring for those with dementia

Coping with change

Appropriate ways to support informal carers

• The environment and dementia

How can an environment empower or disempower those with dementia and therefore, impact on well being?

How can we create positive living spaces?  How can living spaces help those with dementia remain in control and able to participate in their own lives? 

What can be done to make care home / day care settings positive places to be?

What can be done to help a person continue to cope at home? 

• End of life care and dementia

Where do people die?

Palliative care and dementia care

What do we mean by end of life?

Combining living a life with palliative care

What should we be aiming for?

• Developing meaningful activity

Why is activity important?

What do we mean by meaningful activity?

Challenges in activity and those with dementia

Aims of activity

Being creative and being real

Keeping uniqueness in mind

• Safeguarding and dementia

What is meant by safeguarding?

What do we mean by vulnerable?

How is safeguarding different from protection?

What are the principles of good practice in safeguarding?

How can the law and policies help in good practice?

Who is involved?

• Legal frameworks and dementia

How does the law help?

What sorts of things are legal issues in dementia care?

What kind of law is important in adult health and social care?

What do I need to know?

How can law help to provide good care – or poor care?

Although modules cover a range of defined topics, each module can be adapted to meet the needs of individual organisations and their workforce. 

We also offer a range of study days on dementia care. 

Please contact us to be added to our data base in order to receive up to date information about up and coming study days and conferences. 

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COURSE:

• "A most enjoyable interesting course that kept all attendees interested and engaged"
• "I have enjoyed all the days on the course and found it all very interesting"
• "Very informative.  I will use all the knowledge to hopefully improve my practice as a support worker"
• "The course leader has a unique ability to explain complex situations easily and makes everyone feel very comfortable"
• "Experimental learning - am so used to 'academic' teaching/training it's really refreshing"

MODULE 1 - The Experience of Living with Dementia

• "Thought provoking, very well facilitated"
• "Excellent, touches on what I complete at work, I found it a very good refresher"
• "Very good putting ourselves in the place of someone with dementia using our thoughts and feelings - very powerful"
  
• "Very good contents interactive between groups, working at how we would feel if we had dementia"
• "Very informative well structured interactions from the group who work in other services that work with dementia groups sharing information"
  

 MODULE 2 - The Person with Dementia"

• " Very interesting and informative sessions that prompt much discussion and reflection"
• "Good insight into persons life"
• "Really excited after this mornings session and keen to restart this afternoon.  Learnt plenty and has really put some common situations in perspective.  Course leader always invites questions and asks us to share situations"
• "Thought provoking, I am already beginning to plan new strategies and working methods to implement in my workplace"

MODULE 3 - Positive Relationships in Dementia Care

• "Excellent contents, showing how to adapt communication skills to suit person with dementia"
• "Interesting morning looking at and analysing the ways we communicate.  Very good group interaction/discussions. Talking Mat - tool to take back to my workplace"
• "Very good course, feel very happy about the pace of the course, Course Leader stops/starts when required and revisits sections if required"
• "The course really helped me to appreciate the value of communication and how it was essential in enabling a good relationship"

MODULE 4 - Empowering Practice in Dementia Care

• "Very interesting looking at empowering practice in dementia care.  I will take lots of ideas back to work and put plenty into practice.  I think the course should be rolled out as standard to all dementia care staff"
  
• "Good contents, made me think about our risk assessments and will be reviewing them to give the person with dementia more choice over life.  Course Leader very knowledgeable"
• "Inspiring and empowering"
• "Makes me feel strong to empowering staff to understand an individual experiencing dementia"

MODULE 5 - Attitudes and Values in Dementia Care

• "I really enjoyed this day, especially stigma and media reports"
• "Makes you realise how people perceive what dementia is"
• "I've got fire in my belly after today's session and I hope to put it to good use.  I want to change the world!"
• "What I learnt today was that stereotyping people is a result of lack of knowledge of how a dementia person really feels.  The subject was presented very effectively, visually and orally"

MODULE 6 - Experiences of informal carers

• "The course has made me look at our working practice and reflect and see what we can do to constantly improve the service we deliver, in delivering care and support in a more person centered way"
• "Many informal carers are ill prepared for the roll ahead of them.  This is due to a lack of education of how the person is feeling and suffering.  Help should be given to them.  The DVDs were very good at highlighting this problem, the discussions that followed were first class and an understanding of both sides were clearly given"
• "I have a better understanding of how informal carers have to care for their loved ones"

The next Dementia Care Course will be held in June 2013, dates and venue to be confirmed.

The Trinity centre, Meole Brace, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. SY3 9HF

Tel: 01743 242660

Exit Meole Brace roundabout towards the town centre, go over the bridge, and bear left onto Roman Road, passing the Brooklands Hotel on your left.  At the roundabout on Roman Road, turn onto the Longden Road; Pass the Priory School on your right, then Meole Brace Science College on your left. Turn left into Stanley Lane and drive over the railway bridge. Church Road is on your right as the road bends sharply to the left. The Trinity Centre is behind the church.

There is ample parking on the “Park and Stride” area adjacent to the Centre’s entrance.

City of Stoke-on-Trent Training & Development Centre, Weston Coyney Road, Weston, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. ST3 6ES

Tel: 01782 – 235300

 Travel Instructions

·   -Take the A500 to the A50, then follow the A50 to the third exit signposted to Normacot.

·   -Turn Left at the roundabout and turn right down the road to the side of the fire station (Meir Hay Road).

·   -Follow the road around to the left and take the first turning on the right (Weston Coyney Road).

·   -Follow the road up the hill.

·   -Look for the “Training & Development Centre” signpost on the left and turn immediately left into

      the centre.

·   -Follow the drive to the end and the centre is in the far left corner of the car park.

Car Parking

·    -Car parking is limited so please use public transport or car share where possible.

·    -Additional parking is provided at the rear of the Weston Coyney Arms 50m up from the centre.

·    -Please do not park on neighbouring establishments.

·    -Please show consideration and respect when parking.

Beacon Internation Centre, Stafford:

From the M6 Motorway

Leave the M6 at Junction 14, and follow the signs for Uttoxeter A518. Cross the A34, follow A513 Beaconside (signposted Uttoxeter A518) for about 2 miles, Having passed the RAF (MoD site) on your left, continue along the same road, and at the end of a straight stretch, there are traffic lights where you turn left into the Technology Park. Follow the map attached for directions to Anson Court.

From the West

Take the Ring Road around Stafford, following signs for Uttoxeter A518. After the ASDA roundabout, continue to the next roundabout (about 1 mile) by the University. Take the first left at this roundabout (signposted Stone A34, M6), and turn right at the first traffic lights after 200 metres into the Technology Park. Follow the map for directions to Anson Court.

From the East

Take the A518 from the A51 at Weston towards Stafford. At the first roundabout by the University (4 miles from Weston) turn right for Stone A34, M6 and turn right at the first traffic lights after 200 metres into the Technology Park. Follow the map for directions to Anson Court.

By Bus........

The number 5 bus leaves the town centre (Sainsburys) every half hour for the Tech Park. The 74 & 75 buses leave Stafford Railway Station every half hour to the university, which adjoins the Tech Park.

£300 for ALL eight sessions

£350 for ALL eight sessions + Assessment

£ 55 per individual module

Included in the cost - a sandwich lunch and refreshments