Project Description
Course Overview:
Dementia is becoming increasingly prevalent, both due to an ageing population and also improved recognition of this condition.
Course Outline:
: The Different Types of Dementia
: Anatomy and physiology
: Signs and symptoms
: Effects of the different types of dementia on cognitive and physical function
: How to communicate effectively with people with dementia including the effects of signs, gestures, tone of voice and vocabulary
: Memory; the different types of memory; how and why it is affected
: How to differentiate dementia and depression
: Why people with dementia get agitated and aggressive, and how not to pathologise what is normal behaviour
: Differential diagnoses. Medical conditions that are often mistaken for dementia
Course Duration:
1/2 Day
COURSES DELIVERED
ACROSS THE UK
