Dementia Awareness Training (Virtual)

Number of Capacity: 16

Dementia awareness training helps individuals understand what dementia is and how and why dementia manifests itself so that individual’s in support feel equipped to put into practice the practical responses to dementia care.

Course Content

• Person centred care
• What dementia care is?
• What dementia care is not?
• What is dementia?
• Types of dementia including: 

1. Alzheimer’s disease 
2. Multi-infarct dementia (M.I.D.) 
3. Lewy body dementia 
4. Pick’s disease 
5. Korsakoff’s syndrome

Expected Outcome

• Recognise the signs and symptoms of dementia
• Be aware of applications which may be of practical benefit to the dementia sufferer and support worker