About The Dementia Programme
The Centre for Applied Dementia Studies at the University of Bradford is conducting a research project regarding your experience of using the elearning for healthcare dementia programmes. This evaluation aims to find out your thoughts on the dementia sessions and the impact the training has had on your knowledge and practice. If you would like to take part in the evaluation, we are asking you to complete a short survey before completing a session and another short survey after completing your session. There will be separate surveys for each session you complete. We will also be conducting telephone interviews with up to 20 people with regards to how the sessions have had an impact on practice. For further information please contact
The elearning programme in Dementia Care has been designed to enhance the training and education of the health and social care workforce. It focuses on the essential knowledge and skills needed to support and enable people living with dementia and their family carers to live as well as possible, wherever they live.
The programme will also be of interest to those responsible for training and educating the health and social care workforce. It can be used in a variety of ways including as part of induction to structure reflective practice with individual staff and teams for self-paced learning and to revisit as a form of refresher training.
Projects Putting Learning Into Practice
Taking practical education to a fundamental level, some of our courses include a workplace project. An opportunity to test new knowledge and skills and to improve local services, delegates are offered mentorship and encouraged to support their peers as they continue to develop their specialism in a way that directly impacts their patient’s outcomes.
Attendees have free reign over this project. It might be service delivery, patient management or drug treatments, and it could take the form of a service description, an audit, or another form of research. It should meet a local need.
When complete, the project closes with a presentation to the other course members, faculty, and often their managers, commissioners or other people of influence in their area.
Professional Training And Curricula
Training Curriculum: Alzheimers Disease and Related DementiasSixteen core modules and 11 supplemental modules developed by the Health Resources and Services Administration HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce to train the primary care workforce about dementia care, help providers address caregiver needs and help caregivers cope with the challenges of caregiving.
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A powerful, easy to deliver simulation experience that immerses participant into life with dementia, resulting in a remarkable inside-out understanding of cognitive impairment and sensory change.
How Does It Work?
Participants are outfitted in specialized gear and given certain tasks to perform in an enclosed “experience” area. The challenges and struggles one faces become very real to the participant, because they are experiencing them for themselves. This triggers a heightened awareness of and understanding for those with dementia. Following the experience, a trained Coach meets with them in a unique “empowerment session” where participants obtain valuable tools to improve communications and care processes.
What is the benefit of the Authorized Coach designation?
Senior care providers may become designated Dementia Live® Providers. With training, you can offer Dementia Live as ongoing staff training, share this with families and offer it as community education. These 3 components deliver multiple benefits to your organization.
Experience & Offer Dementia Live® in A Variety of Ways!
- Full immersion experience
- Table Top experience
- Dementia Live® Virtual Experience
How The Federal Government Is Supporting Health Care Professionals
The federal government is investing in evidence-based research to find new ways to optimize dementia care quality and efficiency, which is one of the five goals in the National Plan to Address Alzheimers Disease. Efforts include:
Information and tools are available that can help you improve care for people with Alzheimers and related dementias.
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Finding Patience: Raising Awareness Of Dementia In The African Caribbean Community To Facilitate Early Diagnosis
The number of people with dementia of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic origin is expected to rise significantly a seven fold increase over 40 years compared to a two fold increase in the number of people with dementia across the whole UK population in the same period.
It is recognised that within the BAME communities there is low awareness of dementia and low numbers of people accessing dementia services. The Prime Ministers Challenge on Dementia 2020 outlines the need to reduce variation in dementia care, support and access across age, gender, and ethnicity. It commits to an increase in the numbers of people of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic origin and other seldom heard groups who receive a diagnosis of dementia and greater provision of culturally competent care, with staff better able to meet the diverse needs of people with dementia.
The following Implementation Plan called for Health Education England to commission a film for health and social care providers that focuses on the specific needs of the African Caribbean community within the care process.
Finding Patience has been developed with input from experts across the system and follows Patience and her family as they recognise and come to terms with her dementia and ultimately seek help.
Leeds Beckett University have adapted the Finding Patience materials for self-study. Please take a look at their website to access the resources.
Resources For Health Care Providers: Alzheimers And Related Dementias
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Diagnosing, treating, and caring for people with Alzheimers disease and related dementias are challenges that require collaboration among family members, medical professionals, other health service providers, communities, and more. Health care professionals are on the front lines of this effort, working directly with patients and family members. Learn more below about the role of health care professionals in dementia care and about related federal government resources and tools.
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Promoting Prevention Supporting Management
Led by proactive clinicians determined to see improvement in the way we prevent, diagnose and manage dementias, Dementia Academy supports healthcare professionals with the latest tools, resources and courses to do just that.
Designed by clinicians, for clinicians
Healthcare professionals have come together from across different backgrounds, localities, experiences and service models to develop our courses. They make up our valued Faculty, and are constantly shaping and updating the content and style of delivery to maximise its relevance and practicality.
From course to community
As with all our Academies, there is a strong emphasis on the practical application of learning, but with dementia, this brings a strong focus on prevention and risk modification. Equipping delegates with both the knowledge and toolkits they need, this collegiate community is working hard to promote brain health and dementia prevention as well as early diagnosis and optimal management.
Tangible transformation
This Academy is leading the way through national consensus guidance which can in turn be used to improve local service models. Our first Academy to develop a locally-tailored course, 2021 will see a bespoke training series for a whole spectrum of healthcare practitioners from GPs and community services to specialists and consultants. This locally-tailored education in mild cognitive impairment aims to inspire a collaborative approach to quality improvement projects in the area.
Fred’s Story: Highlighting Unsafe Mobility For People With Dementia Who May Leave Their Place Of Care
Thought-provoking films, aimed at healthcare professionals, emergency services, carers and health and social care staff, to raise awareness of the issues faced by a person with dementia who may wander from their care setting including their own home.
The films have an associated workbook and teaching slides which are available to download from the associated documents below.
All the materials provide reflective learning on wandering as behaviour that can become a risk for those with dementia both pre and post formal diagnosis. We become more aware about how it feels to be a person with dementia, and how vital it is to get professionals and relatives on board to help the person with dementia cope.
It raises reflective learning to improve caring, compassion and good communication should the person become a Missing Person and the appropriate actions of emergency services, health professionals and families.
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The Role Of Health Care Providers In Dementia Care
Health care professionals are often the first points of contact for people with Alzheimers or a related dementia including Lewy body dementia, vascular dementia, or frontotemporal dementia who can help provide care and support. Read more about the different types of dementia.
Several types of health care professionals may be involved with diagnosing and providing care to people with dementia. These include:
- Primary care doctors
- Neurologists, who specialize in disorders of the brain and nervous system
- Geriatricians, who specialize in the care of older adults
- Geriatric psychiatrists, who specialize in the mental and emotional health of older adults
- Neuropsychologists, who specialize in standardized assessment of cognition and behavior
- Clinical psychologists, social workers, and general psychiatrists, who specialize in understanding, diagnosing, and treating mental health and behavior disorders
- Speech, physical, and occupational therapists, who specialize in improving patients ability to communicate and perform self-care activities
- Home health aides
These professionals may see patients at a health clinic, hospital, academic hospital, or long-term care facility.
The Positive Approach To Care
Central to our work to up-skill and improve confidence of teams within the aged care sector is the work of Teepa Snow, a world leader in dementia education and care approaches, whose education principles are delivered via her Positive Approach to Care® .
Our accredited PAC practitioners can build the confidence and skills of carers and health care professionals by empowering them to not only identify the needs of those residents living with dementia, but also find dignified solutions for the challenges of care.
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What Is Project Echo
- Project ECHO is a case-based, collaborative model of learning delivered via videoconference bringing advanced training and support to healthcare providers.
- Expert panel delivers short lessons and group consultation on de-identified cases from long-term care communities
- James L. West has joined with University of North Texas Health Science Center to partner with rural nursing homes and assisted livings to provide access to specialty care in dementia. This model gives communities an effective way to learn and provide high-quality dementia care to their residents with an eye toward decreasing disparities due to dementia related behavioral expressions.
New Il Law Requires Dementia Training For Healthcare Professionals
Illinois has become the first state to require Alzheimers diagnosis training for healthcare professionals. The bill, which goes into effect January 1, 2023, requires all healthcare professionals with continuing education requirements to complete at least a one-hour training course during each license renewal period.
The program should cover assessment and diagnosis, effective communication strategies, and management and care planning. Any training on Alzheimers disease and other dementias applied to meet other state licensure requirements, professional accreditation or certification requirements, or healthcare institutional practice agreements may count toward the continuing education requirement.
Among the professions mentioned in the legislation are nursing home administrators, social workers, nurses, physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, speech language pathologists, physician assistants, podiatrists, audiologists, clinical psychologists, optometrists, and counselors.
The Illinois Health Care Association hasnt taken an official position on the new requirement. However, Matt Hartman, IHCA executive director, observed that professionals in the long-term care sector already have training requirements that would satisfy the new law.
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Educating And Training Professionals
EDUCATING AND TRAINING PROFESSIONALS to Make Alzheimers Our Next Public Health Success Story
By 2050, nearly 14 million Americans may be living with Alzheimers dementia, an increase from the estimated 5.8 million in 2019.1As the population affected by dementia grows, the public health, healthcare, and other workforces urgently need additional competencies for coping with this challenge.
Strategies are needed to equip public health professionals with sound and credible information so that they are well-informed when engaging partners from multiple sectors including healthcare, community service groups, and the aging network. They also need to understand the best available evidence in order to perform their role assuring providers have essential competencies when caring for people with dementia. To improve both early diagnoses and professional care for people with dementia, public health can join with academic institutions, clinical practices, and caregiver organizations on educational initiatives that enhance the knowledge andabilities of nurses, social workers, pharmacists, physicians, community health workers, home health professionals, and more. Some essential areas for education include:
» Importance of early detection, diagnosis, documentation of diagnosis, and care of Alzheimers and other dementias.
» Availability of resources including validated clinical assessment tools, online training, and community-based social services.
» Value of comprehensive care planning.
The Dementia Detailing Difference
I wouldnt hesitate to engage Dementia Detailing for any organisation or individual involved in caring for people living with dementia. ~ Matt, Aged Care Manager.
Dementia is recognised as a national health priority in Australia by both Federal and State Governments, and, together with heightened community expectations, the pressure on aged care facilities to lift standards of care is great.
Yet, even the most well resourced facility can lack the internal resources and knowledge to meaningfully advance their dementia-centric model of care for residents living with dementia.
Dementia Detailing draws on contemporary dementia care approaches to assist and empower health care professionals and staff to improve the quality of care for those living with cognitive decline .
We can help you to implement new initiatives or evolve current programs to assist with becoming dementia-care competent and improve your facilitys competitive advantage by offering carers and families a more holistic approach to care.
All of Dementia Detailings training programs meet the Australian Governments Aged Care Quality Standards 2019 and Aged Care Diversity Framework.
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The Gems: Brain Change Model
- Discussion about different states of brain disease with specific examples of how to interact with each state
- The ability to see individuals dealing with brain change as precious, unique and capable
- Role play scenarios and use specific techniques to interact so that time spent together is engaging and productive
Online Alzheimers And Dementia Training Ceus For Healthcare Professionals
Alzheimers Los Angeles and CareerSmart® have partnered to bring you up-to-date online continuing education and training courses for professionals that emphasize best practices in Alzheimers and dementia case management and care coordination.
These online continuing education training courses can be taken as stand-alone modules or as a series, and include the following Alzheimers and dementia topics:
- Fundamentals of Alzheimers Disease for Healthcare Professionals
- Strategies for Managing Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia
- Caring for Family Caregivers
- Effective Communication Strategies for Caring for People with Dementia
Developed by subject matter experts at Alzheimers Los Angeles, these online continuing education courses on Alzheimers and dementia are designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of healthcare professionals such as nurses , social workers , case managers , care managers, and other allied healthcare professionals, including non-clinical staff and healthcare administrators and residential care facility for the elderly / Assisted Living facility administrators.
Alzheimers Los Angeles is a joint provider of the continuing education courses offered by CareerSmart®. Continuing education contact hours are approved for nurses, social workers, case managers, and other allied healthcare professionals as noted in the course catalog listed below.
All courses and corresponding transcripts are accessible for 1 year from the date of purchase.
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Dementia Care Training Videos For Healthcare Videos
Three-part video series that examines best practices in treating and caring for persons with dementia and their families.
This interdisciplinary training video focuses on:
- Differentiating hallmark clinical signs of the four most common forms of dementia,
- Explaining the newest diagnostic and assessment criteria and guidelines for dementia,
- Examining person-centered communication skills with patients and their families including working with different cultures and,
- Identifying professional and community resources
This training video focuses on:
- Use and efficacy of approved medications for Alzheimers disease
- Appropriate use of off-label medications used in dementia care
- Non-pharmacologic interventions for persons with dementia
- Best practices in culture change
This training video focuses on:
- Best practices to improve QOL in persons with dementia including shared decision making
- Safety issues due to sensory deficits including pain management, falls, wandering, and activities of daily living
- The secondary patient and best practices in emphasizing healthy behaviors
- Community resources for safety and QOL
From Prevention And Early Recognition Through To The End Of Life This Academy Is At The Forefront Of Optimal Care Modelling With Its Interactive Care Pathway And New Brain Health Clinic Blueprint
Dementia Academy offers a unique opportunity for healthcare professionals to receive expert training in dementia.
Following in the successful footsteps of the Parkinsons Academy which was established in 2002, the Dementia Academy delivers an innovative educational programme in the field of dementia. The MasterClass aims to provide a structured training programme for clinicians who seek formal training in both the clinical and managerial aspects of running a dementia service. The educational style of the Academy provides unique clinical skills enhancement and service development.
The Dementia MasterClass is for primary and secondary care clinicians, including nurses, GPwSIs, geriatricians, old age psychiatry consultants and registrars. The training course will cover topics including:
- Practical neuroimaging for dementia
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Studies Evaluating Impact Across All Levels
Only three studies evaluated all levels of the framework . Two of these studies were high-quality and one moderate and all used a quantitative design. The training programs they utilized were similar in delivery methods , were of at least 3 hours total duration, and had individual session length of 1 to 2 hours . All reported positive learner reactions to the training, improvements in knowledge posttraining, improvements in behavior posttraining and at least some improved outcomes for people with dementia. However, none of the studies discussed the interrelationship between factors at each Kirkpatrick level in contributing to efficacy of the training program and their quantitative design limits their ability to offer learner or service-based explanations for potential efficacy.