Understanding Dementia 

This one-hour dementia awareness session will help you and your team understand more about dementia and how we can all support people living with dementia in our community. 

The engaging, interactive session includes:   

• What is dementia, signs and symptoms, most common types and causes
• How dementia affects the person
• Tips on supporting people to ‘live as well as they can’ with dementia 
• The benefits of having a diagnosis

Duration:  1 hour plus 30 minutes for discussion and questions 

Price:  £10 per person (plus trainer's travel expenses)

Numbers:  From 12 to 30 participants depending on the venue

Up to 100% discount for voluntary and community groups 

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Learning from Living with Dementia

An award-winning and illuminating one-day course, originally developed by Buz Loveday and people living with dementia. It is for anyone who supports someone living with dementia and who wishes to understand more about dementia from the point of view of the person affected.

The interactive and informative day explores strategies for support that help people to maintain their independence and to ‘live as well as they can’ with dementia.  The course includes:

• Key learning points delivered via embedded video clips of people living with dementia, sharing their experience of the effects and what we can do to help them live as well as they can.
  
  
• Trainer-led interactive activities to consolidate the learning and encourage learners plan how they will use what they have learnt to make a difference for the people they support.
  
  
• Opportunities to share experiences and knowledge. 

Learning from Living with Dementia was created by Buz Loveday, founder of Dementia Trainers, with members of EDUCATE, a self-advocacy group of people living with dementia. It addresses all the Dementia Awareness learning outcomes (Tier 1) of the Training Standards Framework (Skills for Health & Health Education England and Skills for Care, 2018.)

Annie Clayton, Alzheimer’s Support’s trainer, is licensed to deliver this dementia awareness course.

Duration:  7 hours in person or two 3.5 hour online sessions

Price:  £45 per person (plus trainer's travel expenses if applicable)                       

Numbers:  From 6 to 12 people

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What they say

Annie is a gifted trainer and I learned so much today.

It is difficult to carry out training via Zoom, however Annie kept it engaging and operated at just the right pace.

The use of non-medical language and real life examples to explain dementia were so refreshing. With my new knowledge, I have better tools and confidence to engage people with dementia. 

An enjoyable course well presented. New things learned and a good reminder of other things learned on previous courses. Person centred approach, Kitwood. Everyone is different and should be treated as such and with dignity and respect. Thank you Annie.

The whole content and presentation was brilliant and I enjoyed it all. The shared knowledge and problem solving using holistic person centered approach was great. Thanks to Annie and all the participants.