Dementia Awareness

Dementia Awareness - Course Details

Course intro:

Training Webinar: Awareness of Dealing with Dementia

Introduction – What is Dementia, and can it be prevented? Dementia statistics and people most at risk.

Symptoms of Dementia – the role of a Carer, memory loss, disorientation, personality change, difficulties with everyday tasks and words and how dementia progresses

Course content

• Introduction & Course Objectives
• Understanding Dementia guidance from the HIQA, HSE and best practice including company policy

• Challenging Behaviour, Dementia and Delirium, Explaining and understanding main types of Dementia
• Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular dementia, multi-infarct dementia, Lewy body dementia, Frontal Temporal, Korsakoff’s Syndrome and Creutzfeld-Jacob Dementia

• Q&A
• Conclude & Follow Up Process

Who is the course intended for:

This training course is aimed at all working within community settings with older persons and within healthcare settings creating awareness of Dementia