Family Carer Training 2026 – 8 weeks from Monday 21st September – 8pm Online via Zoom
Family Carers If you are supporting a friend or relative, in your home, their home or in a care home, this is for you. We hold 8 interactive sessions at…
Health & Care Professionals training 2026 starting Thurs 23rd April 8pm 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…
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…
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
What is well-being and how can we promote it in dementia?
Well-being in dementia is precious and vulnerable, but once we understand the precise nature of the threats posed by dementia, we can learn how promote, protect and restore well-being, even as dementia progresses.
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11th June 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
Is honesty always the best policy?
Telling 'the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth' is not always appropriate in dementia care. When facts slip away, leaving only feelings behind, those feelings become far more important than the facts.
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20th May 2022
