Understanding Dementia Barn Dance 2026 – Saturday 6th June 7.30-11pm
Please book your tickets below - just enter the number of tickets required for yourself and whoever you're bringing. You can make your menu choices for the Ploughman's supper on…
Health & Care Professionals training 2026 starting Thurs 23rd April 10am Online via Zoom
*Please note that this is a 9-week course, but we are not running any training w/c 18th May, as that's Dementia Action Week - so the final session will be…
Family Carer Training 2026 – 8 weeks from Friday 1st May – 2pm in Calcot
*Please note that this is a 8-week course, but we are not running any training w/c 18th May, as that's Dementia Action Week - so the final session will be…
Family Carer Training 2026 – 8 weeks from Tuesday 28th April – 8pm Online via Zoom
*Please note that this is a 8-week course, but we are not running any training w/c 18th May, as that's Dementia Action Week - so the final session will be…
Family Carer Training 2026 – 8 weeks from Wednesday 29th April – 10am Online via Zoom
*Please note that this is a 8-week course, but we are not running any training w/c 18th May, as that's Dementia Action Week - so the final session will be…
Family Carer Training 2026 – 8 weeks from Tuesday 28th April – 2pm in Woosehill
*Please note that this is a 8-week course, but we are not running any training w/c 18th May, as that's Dementia Action Week - so the final session will be…
Dementia: learning from the expert in our care
The experts by experience consulted by decision-makers and involved in co-produced training are often relatively young, articulate and in the earliest stages of dementa or related conditions. However our caseload may include people in much later stages. But however advanced their dementia, the individual in our care can be the best expert: they can teach us a lot about how best to support them - if we learn to really listen to them.
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30th November 2024
There’s no place like home
We long to go home. Home - to that place where everything makes sense. But in dementia, things are increasingly not making sense...
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11th July 2024
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
Dementia friendliness – a postscript
It seems it's worth buying equipment that nobody uses in the name of Dementia Friendliness, but too expensive to replace a broken and unsuitable lock on a frequently-used toilet in a 'Dementia Friendly' ward...
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4th August 2022
