Living Well with Dementia

What the course covers:

• National strategy for dementia support: ‘Living Well with Dementia’
• The aims of the strategy
• Common core principles for supporting people with dementia
• Definition of dementia
• Dementia statistics
• Memory assessment services
• Individual strategy
• VIPS – value, individual, perspective, social environment
• How to put in place a strategy for each area
• Key messages
• Traffic light system
• Risk management – environment, service user and support worker
• Elements of cognitive decline
• Medical model – treatments and support
• Social model – treatments and support
• Managing challenging behaviour