Aim: A spotlight on understanding and accepting dementia and providing proactive support

Objectives:

By successfully completing this course you will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of dementia
• Describe the types and signs of dementia
• Explain the difference between dementia and other similar conditions
• List relevant legislation in the UK
• Describe the physical, psychological and emotional difficulties faced by people living with dementia
• Distressed Behaviour, possible reasons behind the and strategies to de-escalate them
• Describe how to deliver person-centred care to an individual with dementia
• Explain how to communicate effectively with people living with dementia
• Explain what is meant by “ living well ” and how to create dementia-friendly environments
• Describe the importance of providing effective care at present and in the future

Introduction

Welcome to the Halo Staffing eLearning course on Dementia.

We will begin this course with a description of the fundamentals of dementia.

We will then inform you about the types and signs of dementia.

We will then try to differentiate dementia from other similar conditions.

At this point we will inform you about the relevant legislations in the UK.

Having done that, we will focus our attention on the physical, psychological and emotional problems faced by people living with dementia.

We will then inform you about the behaviours that challenge, reasons behind them and strategies to de-escalate them.

We will also describe how to deliver person-centred care to an individual living with dementia.

Here, we will explain how to communicate effectively with people living with dementia.

We will also inform you what is meant by “ living well ” and how to create dementia-friendly environments.

And finally, we will describe the importance of providing effective care at present and planning for future needs.