Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Dementia Care: Living Well as Dementia Progresses
Newcastle University
The course described the progressive nature of dementia and the importance of planning ahead. Its focus was on giving confidence in conversations around care and comfort. Participants explored changes in physical health, emotional wellbeing, and thinking and memory to help them ensure care and comfort through decision-making and comfort care planning. Participants reflected on the importance of self-care for carers, how to manage grief and how to seek support.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Dame Louise Robinson
Director, Newcastle Institute for Ageing
Newcastle University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the progression and symptoms of dementia
- Describe the potential for involving the person with dementia in decisions
- Summarise the services that may be useful to families as the illness progresses
- Explore sources of support for carers and people living with dementia across a range of different settings
- Explore ways to ensure care and communication is person-centred
- Identify ways to maintain quality of life and ensuring comfort for the person living with dementia
- Apply these learning resources to their own situation.
Syllabus
- Understanding the progression and symptoms of dementia
- The potential for involving the person with dementia in decisions
- Signposting to services that may be useful to families as the illness progresses
- Exploring sources of support for carers and people living with dementia across a range of different settings
- Exploring ways to ensure care and communication is person-centred
- Identifying ways to maintain quality of life and ensuring comfort for the person living with dementia
- The course will support learners to apply these learning resources to their own situation.
Issued on 12th August 2019
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