The Dementia Care Training Library: Starter Pack

TIM FORESTER MORGAN is co-founder and Director of the Dementia Training Company, an organisation offering a range of programmes designed to equip people with the skills they need to enable individuals with dementia to live well. He has had responsibility for the delivery and management of a wide range of consultation services for care settings requiring guidance on therapeutic environments for people with dementia. He is an NVQ/QCF Assessor and has been a Dementia Care Mapper since 2001. SARAH MOULD is Specialist Practitioner for Dementia at University Hospital Southampton. She qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 1991 and has both clinical and managerial experience in Older People's Mental Health Services. After rising to Director of Training for a specialist dementia organisation and earning an MSc in Dementia Studies, in 2011 Sarah co-founded the Dementia Training Company where she remained as Tim's co-Director until 2019.

Introduction

Module 1:
INTRODUCING DEMENTIA
1: Definitions, prevalence and risk factors

Module 2:
THE LIVED EXPERIENCE FROM FIRST SIGNS TO DIAGNOSIS
1: The individual lived experience of dementia
2: Signs, symptoms & identification of dementia
3: The assessment and diagnosis of dementia
4: Dementia risk reduction and prevention

Appendices and Worksheets
References and Further Reading

Module 3:
DEMENTIA - COMMUNICATION AND BEHAVIOURS VIEWED AS CHALLENGING

1: Communication with people with dementia
2: Positive interactions with people with dementia
3: Supporting people to live well with dementia
4: Rethinking behaviours viewed as challenging

Appendices and Worksheets
References and Further Reading