Family carer training for Men – 8 weeks from Monday 30th September 8 pm via Zoom
Male dementia carers If you are a man supporting a spouse, partner, relative or friend, in your home, their home or in a care home, this is for you. **You…
Family carer training for Men – 8 weeks* from Monday 22nd April via Zoom
Male dementia carers *We will have a break for both Bank Holidays on 6th and 27th May - so the course is 8 weeks in total, but the last session…
Making a virtue of necessity
The benefits of going virtual When I started training for Understanding Dementia, it was mostly one-off face-to-face sessions delivered to teams or groups. A half-day training would give a good…
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1st September 2022
Lavatorial language and loo lingo: where is it you desperately need to go?
For those who need care, communicating their basic needs can be difficult. Perhaps we should include this issue in health and social care training. We could encourage care workers to listen for unusual lavatorial lingo…
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5th August 2022
Dementia Friendliness – what is it exactly? Awkward questions…
The Alzheimer’s Society doesn't call Dementia Friends Information Sessions ‘training’, but there is a lot of misunderstanding. Several health and care professionals have told me that registering with Dementia Friends has made training unnecessary.
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3rd August 2022
It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it
People often ask which activities work best for people with dementia, but it’s not so much what you do, but how you do it that makes the most difference to their well-being.
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11th June 2022
