Dementia Awareness

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Dementia Awareness

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The purpose of this Course on dementia is to improve your clinical practice when working with people with dementia. It seeks to do this by considering seven distinct but interrelated areas that, collectively, will give you a greater degree of awareness of dementia and what you can do to help. These units seek to address the following questions:

  • What is it like for someone to have dementia?
  • What exactly is dementia?
  • What should our practice be like?
  • Can we communicate with people with dementia? If so, how?
  • What can we do to help people with dementia?
  • How can we help family and friends caring for a loved one with dementia?
  • What are the legal and ethical issues of working with people with deme…

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The purpose of this Course on dementia is to improve your clinical practice when working with people with dementia. It seeks to do this by considering seven distinct but interrelated areas that, collectively, will give you a greater degree of awareness of dementia and what you can do to help. These units seek to address the following questions:

  • What is it like for someone to have dementia?
  • What exactly is dementia?
  • What should our practice be like?
  • Can we communicate with people with dementia? If so, how?
  • What can we do to help people with dementia?
  • How can we help family and friends caring for a loved one with dementia?
  • What are the legal and ethical issues of working with people with dementia?

This Course is divided into seven units, each of which deals with a particular aspect of dementia. Each unit also addresses one or more of the Course learning outcomes so that when you have completed the entire Course you will have achieved all the Course learning outcomes as follows:

By the end of this Course you will be able to:

1. Examine critically the nature of the subjective experience of the person with dementia, and demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the importance of this as the necessary starting point for any consideration of dementia

2. Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the nature of dementia from a bio-psycho-social perspective and evaluate the implications for your practice

3. Examine critically the concept of person-centred care within the work setting and its relevance to dementia care

4. Demonstrate in-depth understanding and application of the importance of communication with people with dementia at varying stages of the illness

5. Examine critically the guidelines relating to the care and management of older adults with dementia, and consider the implications in relation to specific client groups, and local policy and practice pertaining to this, and make recommendations for your own local policy and practice based on your analysis

6. Demonstrate in-depth understanding and application of the importance of working with families and carers of people with dementia

7. Examine critically the legal and ethical contexts of caring for a person with dementia, and demonstrate in-depth understanding of the implications of these to your practice

Syllabus

Unit 1: The Subjective Experience of Dementia

Unit 2: The Condition: What is Dementia?

Unit 3: Care: Theory and Practice

Unit 4: Communication and Dementia

Unit 5: Context of Care: Interventions

Unit 6: Carers: Working with Families

Unit 7: Challenges: Legal and Ethical Issues

Qualifications

On completion of your course, you will receive the dual award:

Award 1 is issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges: Dementia Awareness Certificate

Dementia Awareness Certificate issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges, to view a sample of the college’s award, please click here.

Requirements for Entry

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.

Study Options

In order to offer our students the most convenient and flexible distance learning courses, Stonebridge Associated College offers you the option to study for your course via two methods:

  • 1. Via the traditional paper-based method.
  • 2. Through the online method via ElearnUK.

If you do not have Internet access, or would prefer to study this course via the traditional paper/postal based study method, you can find more information on the course by clicking on the link below.

Stonebridge Prices

Studying by Post. If you would like to pay by instalments, we do offer an affordable interest free payment plan scheme which allows you to spread the cost of your course over a number of months. However, to use this option you will need to study for your course using the traditional paper-based method. For more information on our payment plans please visit our website at www.stonebridge.uk.com

The reason why the course fee is less if you choose to study online, is because with online study there are no costs associated with postage and printing etc. and thus we are able to offer the course at a reduced rate.

The total amount payable over the term's period, is no more than the total cash price of the course.
(APR = 0%). Written quotations are available on request.

Study Hours

This is only an approximate figure and is dependant upon how much time you can dedicate to your studies and how well you grasp the learning concepts in the course material. Furthermore, at the end of each lesson there is a question paper that needs to be completed and returned to your tutor. You should allow at least 1 - 2 hours of study to complete each question paper.

The approximate amount of time required to complete the course is: 105 hrs.

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