News and Events Board
Dear Readers,
This new facility has
been added to DementiaWeb Kent and Medway and the aim is to offer the opportunity
to display local news and events. You can also use the
board to give and receive support, to share experiences with others in similar
circumstances and gain further understanding of dementia. Jackie Pool Associates
is delighted to announce the establishment of a close working relationship
with the Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC)
South East. This relationship will add to the established partnerships
with Canterbury Christ Church University, Avante Partnership and
Dementia UK.
The DSDCse Joint Working with Jackie Pool Associates
Jackie Pool will be formally visiting the University
twice in the next academic year to deliver lectures as part of the DSDCse
dementia care teaching programme in November
2011 and as part of the series of lectures for 2011/2012
in March 2012.
Information about these events will be circulated in due course please email
dsdcse.events@canterbury.ac.uk
to be added to the data base to ensure your receive the information.
The DSDCse will be working with Dementia UK
and Jackie to develop the support and training of leaders
in dementia care, support the development of knowledge and care for staff
in general hospitals and GP practices.
For more information please contact either Penny Hibberd Director
DSDCse penny.hibberd@canterbury.ac.uk
or Jackie Pool jackie.pool@jackiepoolassociates.org
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia
Inquiry into how to improve dementia diagnosis rates in the UK
The APPG
has launched its next inquiry which will focus on improving dementia
diagnosis rates across the UK. Currently we know only 43 per
cent of people in the UK living
with dementia ever receive a formal diagnosis. Overall we also
know that, despite an emphasis in national policies, little progress has
been made towards improving diagnosis rates over the last few years.
For further information on this inquiry please go
to APPG
You can share your views by visiting the online questionnaire appropriate for you or your organisation.
Alternatively you can email your evidence to appg@alzheimers.org.uk or post it to:
APPG Evidence Please Note: The deadline
for written submissions is Friday 2nd March 2012. We are looking to help recruit more
people with dementia to test out an idea called the Scent-Clock, which is
designed to support and encourage people to eat more regularly.
Sarah Tilsed
Alzheimer's Society
Devon House
58 St Katharine's Way
London
E1W 1LB
Test the Scent-Clock!
The Design Council challenge is a competition in which
designers build and test innovative equipment or services to help people
with dementia.
Do you work with or support people with dementia who might want to take part?
Participation will involve testing some scents in the person’s own home for a period of five days – followed by a 2-hour interview.
The designers would also like to arrange a focus group of people with dementia to test their response to various scents.
Remuneration is available for both participants, and for organisations supporting their involvement.
This testing is scheduled to take place as soon as possible, that means in January 2012.
If you are interested in helping us
to support this exciting new innovation or would like to learn more, please
contact Steve Milton on 01392 420076 or
07549 921901 or email to
steve@innovationsindementia.org.uk
The Arts and Excellence in
Social Care Settings
With all the competing pressures a care home manager has to juggle everyday it would hardly be surprising if arts activities did not always feature as a high priority. Any care home manager interested in delivering an excellent service, though, will be aware of the contribution the arts can make to well-being and quality of life and see them more as an asset than as an additional and unrealistic duty.
For further information on this report and a list of various arts activities please go to Creative Care in Residential Homes.
Report
of the National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals 2011 The audit is
funded by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
and managed by a project team based at the Royal College of Psychiatrists'
Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI). The aim of the
audit was to examine the quality of care received by people with dementia
in the general hospital. This created the necessity to collect evidence covering
the whole hospital stay from admission to discharge. Despite the difficulties
of collecting data from casenotes across the admission period, we were
delighted with the response from hospitals. 89% of hospitals eligible for
audit submitted data, which equals inclusion of 99% of Trusts/Health Boards
in England and Wales. The high participation rate shows that care of people
with dementia has been recognised by hospitals as a highly important area
for quality improvement. For further information on this report,
please go to Report.
Medway Link - Accessing Dementia
Services Research Study We want to include providers, carers
and patients with dementia so we obtain a 360° review of current provision
and demand. We recognise the issues surrounding data protection hence the
need to rely on organisations DementiaWeb Kent and Medway to distribute
the survey. All responses are given in complete anonymity so we are not
able to identify those taking part unless they wish to give us their details
to take part in further studies or have their answers attributed to them.
Julie Hodgson This is an invitation to join a consultation about
the Appropriate Care for Everyone (ACE) Partnership Programme which has
a short questionnaire attached to it. You can join the consultation at the
following link
ACE consultation. This is an important piece of work in Oxfordshire
which will affect the way we offer care, in particular, to the older and
frailer members of our communities. The ACE Partnership Programme aims to solve one of
the biggest problems currently facing health and social care in Oxfordshire
which is delayed transfers of care. It will bring this about by making changes
to the way that people avoid hospital admissions, when they do have a hospital
admission supporting them to return home quickly and supporting people to
remain in their own home wherever possible. If you or anyone you know would like a paper questionnaire
Judy would be happy to supply this or there is a paper version available
on the consultation pages which you can print. Ends on: 16th March 2012 Care is in Crisis - Age UK
Petition Alzheimer's &
Dementia Support Services Dementia Café (ADSS) We at Alzheimer’s & Dementia
Support Services are intending to run an exciting (FREE)
monthly Dementia Café for people who have dementia and their carers.
A Dementia Café is an informal
meeting place for people who have dementia, their family, carers and other
interested parties. It is a place to provide practical information together
with emotional and social support. It has the benefits of being all inclusive,
informative, and a self-help type of support group. Above all, a dementia
café helps us all to look at how we can live well with dementia and
be part of a community. We hope the Café will help carers
and the cared for person feel less isolated through peer support. We also
hope to provide specialist information and guidance by inviting health and
social care professionals along. The sessions will be informative and also
enjoyable, a place to relax with others who understand what dementia is
and how it affects a person. The Café will be open one afternoon
each month. There will be a programme that starts with some form of presentation
(either a DVD, or a talk, or an interview with a professional), followed
by an informal discussion and time for light refreshments with some entertainment.
In Swanley at
White Oak Court, Sycamore Drive, Swanley, Kent, BR8 7WF on a Friday afternoon
from 2pm to 4pm. Rock Sturt Carers Matter CIC Please Note:
Venues for these workshops are to be confirmed. To book your place contact:
info@carersmattercic.org Confidently Caring Please Note: Venues
for these programmes are to be confirmed. Start time from 10.00am
to 1.00pm. Further contact details: Forgetmenot Services Hale Place Care Homes Ltd -
Dementia Care 2nd February 2012 Drama Club for People with
Dementia - 'Maple Trees' The clubs will run initially for 7
weeks and will cost £8.00 per pair, per week. However,
the first session is half price and then people can book the remaining 6
sessions for the price of 5. If you are interested in finding out
more or making a booking please contact Katy Hirst on 07823
697 697 or e-mail her at info@brightshadow.org.uk
alternatively please visit their website at Bright
Shadow.
Medway Link is
conducting a Market Research programme and has commissioned
Lake to evaluate the demand for dementia services locally
and identify ways in which accessing help and support for people who suffer
with dementia can be improved. We are keen to develop a network of organisations
with expertise in this field to identify individuals to take part.
The survey can be accessed by clicking on this link:
www.lake-research.com/research
and selecting the button most applicable to you on the left hand side within
the dementia box.
We are able to conduct the interviews face to face
or over the telephone if preferred, we recognise not everyone will want
to complete online or on paper.
For further information about the survey or wish to arrange a face to face
interview or would like to complete it on paper, then please contact:
Tel: 01622 357 060
Email: julieh@lake-research.com
Web: www.lake-research.com
NHS Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Cluster
Consultation Appropriate Care for Everyone
Many of those who need help and support are being badly let down by a faltering
system, while others find themselves having to sell their homes in order
to pay for support they need.
Age UK are calling on the Government to reform the care
system to ensure people in later life receive high quality care and support.
Age UK would like to collect 100,000 signatures and you
can add your name to their petition right now at Care
in Crisis.
The Government has promised a White Paper
on care reform in the Spring. This is a crucial moment
to influence the future direction of social care – possibly for a
generation.
What is a Dementia Café?
Locations and dates are as follows:
• 10th February 2012
• 9th March 2012
• 13th April 2012
In Dartford at the Conservative Club, 46 Spital
Street, Dartford, DA1 2DT on a Wednesday afternoon from 2pm to 4pm.
• 15th February
2012
• 21st March 2012
• 18th April 2012
• 16th May 2012
• 20th June 2012
In Gravesend at the Emmanuel Baptist Church
Hall, Windmill Steet, Gravesend, DA12 1BB on a Wednesday afternoon from
2pm to 4pm.
The dates of these meetings will be held on:
• 22nd February 2012
• 28th March 2012
• 25th April 2012
• 23rd May 2012
• 27th June 2012
If you are a person who has dementia, or you are carer,
we would like to invite you to join us in the new venture. Places are limited
and will be allocated on a ‘first come’ basis.
For more information about future meetings, please
contact:
Alzheimer's & Dementia Support Services
Basement Flat
Dene Holm House
Dene Holm Road
Northfleet, Kent
DA11 8JY
Tel: 01474 533 990
Email: rock.sturt@alz-dem.org
Carers Matter CIC Ltd, is a new Community Interest Company, that
is Limited by guarantee.
Carers Matter CIC, has been founded to enhance the work of the
Carer Support Voluntary Organisations, by offering Skills and Development
programmes to unpaid Carers.
In our role working with Service Users/Clients, very often the
needs of the Carer get overlooked. Whilst we may provide a care package
to ease the Carer’s load, or a Carers Assessment, do you know what
other services are available that may help support them in their demanding
role? Or recognise the stages that Carers may go through during their life
as a Carer? Would you know if you or your colleagues are Carers? Understanding
who/what a Carer is and their needs and their rights could prevent a Carer
from reaching crisis point and impacting on an already overstretched Health
& Social Care service.
For further information please go to our website at www.carersmattercic.org
Come and find out more on a FREE
2.5 hour workshop starting from 10.00am to 12.30pm at the
following locations:
• Deal on 6th February 2012
• Maidstone on 7th February 2012
Confidently Caring
is a FREE 3
day programme designed to help Carers improve their lives and the person
they care for.
The programme takes place over three sessions, (1
session per week for 3hrs) and includes tips on coping with stress, healthy
eating and looking after yourself.
The programme will be delivered in various locations all over the County
of Kent, starting with:
• Dartford on 21st & 28th February 2012
• Sittingbourne on 22nd & 29th February 2012
• Margate on
23rd February 2012
• Ashford on
24th February 2012
• Margate on
1st & 8th March 2012
• Ashford on
2nd & 9th March 2012
• Dartford on 6th March 2012
• Sittingbourne on 7th March 2012
• Deal on 13th, 20th & 27th March 2012
• New Romney on 14th, 21st & 28th March 2012
• Maidstone on 15th, 22nd & 29th March 2012
• Canterbury on 16th, 23rd & 30th March 2012
To Book your place contact your local Carers Support
Service or e-mail: info@carersmattercic.org
Carers Matter (in Kent) CIC
11 Cumberland Avenue
Gravesend
Kent
DA12 2PH
Tel. 01474 535457
Email: info@carersmattercic.org
Website: www.carersmattercic.org
Forgetmenot Services is a new organisation,
with charitable aims, supported by CVSNWK, bringing fresh
services to the community for those with dementia and their carers through
singing sessions with reminiscence.
Services
Forgetmenot Services expect to be setting up services in the Bromley, Orpington,
Swanley, Bexley, Dartford, Gravesend and Maidstone areas very shortly for
people with dementia and their carers. (We do not insist that you have to
have a diagnosis to come along but please be aware that many of the people
attending will have dementia and the content of the sessions will be geared
towards them).
Forgetmenot Singing
Sessions will last 1½ hours and begin with refreshments and a social
time, gentle armchair movement and vocal warm up then Community
Singing at a cost of £2.50 per person.
These sessions are aimed at older people, people with dementia
and other disabilities, carers and the general public are welcome.
These services and sessions will be held fortnightly on the following
locations:
Sessions in Gravesend are held on
2nd & 4th Thursdays each month from 2pm
at Christ Church Hall, Old Road East,
on 9th & 16th February 2012.
Sessions in Swanley are on
alternate Monday mornings from 10.30am
at 92 Northview Community Hall, on 6th & 20th
February 2012.
Sessions in Bexley are on alternate
Monday afternoons from 2pm at St John’s
Church Hall, Parkhill Road near Hurst Road junction,
on 13th & 27th February 2012.
Sessions in Offham, near West Malling
are on alternate Friday mornings from 10.30am at Spadework,
Teston Road, on 3rd & 17th February 2012.
New
sessions in Dartford at The Bridge Learning
& Community Campus on Monday afternoons from
1.30pm – 3pm beginning on 9th January then
fortnightly.
Referrals: Self Referral
Please Note: Forgetmenot Services are registered
with CIC.
For further information, please contact Rose
Waghorn on 07582 451 470 or via email:
info@forgetmenot-services.co.uk
Alternatively, please visit www.forgetmenot-services.co.uk
We improve the health and wellbeing of older and younger people with dementia
by providing a safe, stimulating, loving, warm and caring home environment.
We have been caring for Alzheimer’s sufferers since 1988 and during
this time we have built an enviable reputation, second to none, for delivering
sensitive care to the very highest standard within small, homely surroundings.
Hale Place Care also provide Carer Support monthly meetings.
These meetings will start from 11.30am to 1.30pm, with Guest Speakers at 12.00pm
on the following date:
East Peckham Club
11 The Freehold
East Peckham
Kent
TN12 5AA
For further information, please contact:
Telephone: 01622 871081
Email: info@haleplace.co.uk
Bright Shadow are launching some new drama clubs starting in November
for members of the community, one of which will be for people with Dementia
to come with their carer or someone who supports them.
This club will be called 'Maple Trees' and
will involve informal, friendly sessions; using activities such as singing,
music, movement, story making and sensory journeys to enable both the person
with dementia and their carer/relative to enjoy spending time together,
taking part in meaningful activity that celebrates the person as an individual.
The Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument for an Activity Model of Care
The Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument has become the
framework for care in settings for clients with cognitive impairments caused
by conditions related to dementia, strokes and learning disabilities; across
the UK.
The instrument has been validated and will also be of interest to strategic
level providers and commissioners of health and social care services as
a standardised assessment and outcome measure.
In the clinical practice guideline for dementia, The National Institute
for Clinical Excellence (NICE, 2006), the PAL Instrument
is recommended for activity of daily living skill training and for activity
planning.
This one-day workshop-for which the DSDCse
have commissioned Jackie Pool herself-is suitable for all
care workers from a range of professional backgrounds including occupational
therapists; nurses; social workers; health and social care support workers
and activity providers.
For further information,
please contact: Katy Russ, DSDCse Administrator by telephone
on 01227 767 700 ext. 3884 or by email: dsdcse.events@canterbury.ac.uk
Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Outreach Service
Our NEW
2 Dementia Support Workers will visit you at home
to offer advice and support.
Our Dementia Support Outreach Service goes 'live'
across East Kent (Dover, Deal, Sandwich, Ramsgate, Thanet, Canterbury, Whitstable
and Herne Bay).
Already covering Tenterden, Ashford, Romney Marshes,
Hythe, Hawinge, Folkestone and Canterbury.
Visits are arranged from 9.00am to 5.00pm, Monday
to Friday in Dover, Deal, Sandwich, Ramsgate, Thanet, Whitstable, Herne
Bay.
To make an outreach appointment with
Andrea Foord please contact us at the office on 0845
04 05 919 or you can all her on the her mobile
on 07584503748
Visits are arranged from 9.00am to 5.00pm,
Monday to Friday in Tenterden, Ashford and Romney Marshes, Hythe, Folkestone,
Hawkinge and Canterbury.
To make an outreach appointment with Catharina
Andrew in these areas please contact us at the office on 0845
04 05 919.
Please Note: This service covers East Kent.
The Expert Patients Programme
What is the Expert Patients Programme (EPP)?
The Expert Patients Programme has been
developed to help counter feelings of isolation and help individuals who
have similar problems to share their experiences, take control of their
health and learn how to self manage their condition on a daily basis.
A FREE interactive six week course, led by trained volunteer tutors who themselves live with one or more long-term health conditions, helps with:
• Dealing with pain, fatigue
and depression
• Relaxation techniques and exercise
• Healthy eating
• Communicating better with family,
friends and health professionals
• Planning for the future
Four to six months later, patients who had completed
the course reported:
• GP consultations decreased by 7%
• Outpatient visits decreased by 10%
• A&E attendences decreased by 16%
• Pharmacy visits increased by
18%
Who can take part?
Anyone living with one or more long-term health conditions.
How can I find out more?
Find
a course in your area and book a place
by using the forms in the top right related forms box.
If you are a health professional and would like to refer a patient please see the forms in the related forms box from the above link.
If you would like to talk to somebody about the programme please contact the EPP Team:
Jane
Reynolds
Expert Patients Programme Co-ordinator
Tel: 01233 667808
Email: Jane.Reynolds@kentcht.nhs.uk
or
kcht.epp@nhs.net
Claire Doran
Expert Patients Programme Co-ordinator
Tel: 01233 667810
Email: Claire.Doran@kentcht.nhs.uk
or kcht.epp@nhs.net
Alternatively, please go to the Experts
Patients Programme link for further information.
East Kent Independent Dementia
Support (E.K.I.D.s) Monthly Groups
EKIDS began almost by itself. Originally,
there were two small support groups for about eight years, and I was asked
to 'continue' the memory group after The Sarre Day Unit (our local 'Mental
Health Unit) had finished after its eight week course.
From this we now run seven groups a
month, and are soon opening another. We also have 'professionals' there
to answer any questions you may have.
These groups are friendly, understanding
and are known to offer excellent support for both carers and those cared
for.
When and Where?
1st Tuesday of each month.
From 10.30am to 12 noon at Ramsgate Boating Pool Café,
Royal Esplanade, Ramsgate. Coffee and a Chat socialisation group for those
with dementia and their carers.
2nd Tuesday of each month.
From 10.30am to 12 noon at St. Christopher’s
Church, Princess Margaret Avenue, Newington, Ramsgate. Support group for
those with dementia and their carers. This group is also attended by health
professionals and service providers who can give advice where needed.
2nd Wednesday of each month. From
3pm to 4.30pm. at Trinity Resource Centre, St. Mary’s Avenue, Cliftonville.
Support group for carers only.
2nd Thursday of each month.
2pm to 3.30pm. at Christian Fellowship, Harbour Street,
Whitstable. Support group for those with dementia and their carers run by
the Admiral Nurse for the Canterbury area.
3rd Tuesday of each month.
From 12noon to 2pm. Lunch Club at Trinity Resource
Centre Cafe, St. Mary’s Avenue, Cliftonville. An informal get-together
for those with dementia and their carers.
4th Monday
of each month. From 5pm to 7pm The
Marine Hotel, Tankerton, Kent. An evening support group for younger carers
and those with younger onset dementia (under 65’s)
4th Wednesday of each month.
From 7.00pm to 8.30pm. The Bakehouse, St Mildred’s
Road, Westgate-on-Sea, (between Carlton Cinema and Corals). An evening support
group for younger carers and those with younger onset dementia (under 65’s).
For further information please contact Tessa
Read on 01843 591608 or email t.read8839@btinternet.com.
Maidstone & Malling Carers Project
Maidstone & Malling Carers
Project is a point of contact for carers living in Maidstone, Malling &
surrounding rural areas needing support, information and assistance.
Some of their services include:
• A Listening Ear
• Support Groups
• Regular Contact
• Kent Carers Emergency Card
• Inforrmation on local services
/ support
• Information on Entitlements
/ rights
• Benefits
• Newsletters
• Information Booklets
• Carers Forum
For further information on support and services
available please click on Maidstone
& Malling Carers Project.
New Computer
Club for Carers at the Maidstone Community Support Centre
The Club will run from 11.00am to 12.30pm
on the 1st Wednesday of every month. Open to all abilities,
including carers totally new to computers who want to learn but need confidence
before joining a formal class.
For more details telephone 01622 685276 or email Christine
at: smiffies.gaalatea@googlemail.com
Contact details:
Barbara Hagan
39-48 Marsham Street,
Maidstone Community Support Centre
Maidstone
ME14 1HH
Tel: 01622 685276
Email: carers@vam-online.org.uk
Foundation Degree in Dementia Care
Canterbury Christ Church University is one of the leading universities in the UK for dementia care.
The teaching and learning in dementia care is led by the team in the Dementia Services Development Centre South East (DSDCse), a partnership between the University, Dementia UK and Avante Partnership.
Service development is a core activity of the DSDCse. Its aims are to support dementia services to plan, deliver, or improve the quality of services for older people with mental illness and dementia, curriculum design and development, teaching and training.
Who is the course aimed at?
The Foundation Degree in Dementia Care
is for health and social care support workers, for example, assistant practitioners,
who have experience and wish to specialise in dementia care and gain a qualification
at university.
The work-based programme consists of six dementia modules and six core modules (at level 4 and 5) which, together, focus on practical skills and study at university. Each module is worth 20 credits.
Aims
The aim of the programme is to equip students with the skills needed to provide leadership in person centred dementia care in the work environment.
Course Content
The programme includes six specialised dementia modules that provide education and training in person-centred relational dementia care.
Modules cover:
• Understanding the impact of dementia on the person, family and carers
• Workshops in therapeutic skill development and advanced communication methods
• Implementation of partnership and leadership working that support the person with dementia, their family and carers
• Support and facilitation for workplace practice development
Participants will share and learn from others’ expertise and knowledge within a range of study sessions including:
• Taught sessions in theory and
methods of holistic dementia care
• Practice workshops, seminars,
role play/simulation and group discussion
• Small group projects and analysis
of the work products
• Planning and evaluation of
workplace project • Practice development and analysis Assessment
Assessments usually include one academic paper and practical demonstration of academic and skill achievement in the workplace.
Start date will be in September
2011 and each module consists of five taught sessions per term,
including academic direction at the University (30 hours) and workplace
learning. Interviews will take place in May 2011.
For further information or for an informal
interview please contact Penny Hibberd on 01227
782 602 or email penny.hibberd@canterbury.ac.uk
Broadmeadow Dementia Extension
Model of Care
Many people in the early stages of a dementing illness may not have a formal
diagnosis, therefore people presenting with symptoms of dementia but who
have not had a formal diagnosis will be eligible for the service.
“Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained” Risk Guidance for People with Dementia produced by The Department of Health says “The most challenging time for practitioners and family carers probably occurs at the ‘in between’ stage when the capacity of the person with dementia to make decisions fluctuates, but is not considered to be absent altogether”.
The service will be for adults presenting with cognitive impairment/dementia to improve and provide the following:
• Multi-agency working and commissioning of services
• Meet the future needs of people
with Dementia • Services which will maintain peoples’ independence
through Enablement
• Day care services 7 days a week
Services and offer assessment and maintenance of life skills to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and reduce the need for long term residential care.
Further information can be found on the Broadmeadow Dementia Extension – Model of Care document.
Dover Luncheon Club Awards in Awareness of Dementia/Certificates
in Dementia Care
Social networking group. This group is run in collaboration with the Admiral
Nurses.
Lunch cost is £7.50 per person.
Please book in advance by calling 01304 216600
When: 3rd Monday of every month from 12.00am to 2.00pm
Where: Dover Yacht Club, Marine Parade, Dover
Folkestone Luncheon Club
Social networking group. Collaboration between Alzheimer’s Society and
Folkestone Admiral Nurse. Refreshments/food purchased privately from the bar.
Meals from £4.00 per person.
When: 1st Friday of the month from 12.00pm to 2:00pm
Where: Brickfields, Cherry Garden Lane, Folkestone, CT19
4AP
Develop your knowledge, skills and understanding of dementia with a City
& Guilds qualification.
What are the qualifications about?
Currently 700,000 people in the UK have dementia and this figure is expected
to double over the next few decades. The Awards in Awareness of Dementia/Certificates
in Dementia Care will help to improve health and care services supporting
individuals diagnosed with dementia.
Who are they for?
The qualifications in awareness of dementia and dementia care are aimed
at occupational areas across all service user groups and ages, working in
statutory (including NHS), private and voluntary agencies. This also includes
healthcare/care assistants, support/key workers, family support workers
and team leaders/first line supervisors.
What are the Awards?
City & Guilds Award in Awareness of Dementia (Levels 2 and 3)
QCF
• Provides accreditation for learners’ knowledge and understanding
of this specialised area of care.
• Updates the knowledge and understanding of this specialised area
of care of those already employed in a care role.
These Awards require assessment of knowledge only through completion of
set assignments via a Distance Learning programme. Learners are expected
to carry out their own internet based research and/or reading in order to
complete written assignments within agreed deadlines.
City & Guilds Certificate in Dementia Care (Levels 2 and 3)
QCF
• These qualifications are aimed at those who are already working
in care roles with individuals with dementia and provide an opportunity
to have their knowledge and skills recognised through the achievement of
a nationally accredited qualification.
• They assess learners' competence, i.e. their ability to competently
perform a range of tasks in areas of practice such as person centred working,
communication and interaction, equality and diversity, individuals' rights
and choices.
Further information about these qualifications can be found on: http://www.cityandguilds.com/59412.html?s=2
The Design
Council
The Design Council is partnering with the Department
of Health to work towards improving the lives of people with dementia
and their carers. An innovation competition, Living well with dementia,
is being run to challenge the UK's leading designers, technologists and
social entrepreneurs to come together to improve dementia care.
The project aims to:
* Improve the lives of people living with dementia and their carers by developing sustainable service models and assistive technologies.
* Highlight the opportunity for new approaches to dementia care and provide incentives for partnerships of public, private and third sector to develop these.
* Involve new partners, in particular those with experience of social enterprise and innovation, and stimulate new thinking about future models of dementia care.
* Demonstrate the role designers can
play in addressing this major social challenge, to improve dementia-related
products and services.
For competition information please go to This
is your life.
One in three of us who live to 65 will have
some form of dementia before we die.
The Design Council and the Department of Health want you to rethink life with dementia. A million people in the UK will be living with the condition by 2021. But there's a difference between simply living and living well.
We're challenging you to make the lives of people affected by dementia better.
If you would like to take part in the Living well with dementia challenge, please go to Challenge.
Design Council challenges are an opportunity to use your skills in a new area, whilst making a real difference to people's lives.
Interested? Find out more and meet potential partners at www.designchallenges.ning.com
Skills for Facilitating Learning
in Dementia Care
Dementia Services Development Centre
South East
The Dementia Services Development Centre South
East (DSDCse) serves the counties of Kent, Sussex and Surrey. It
is based in Christ Church University in Canterbury.
The aim of the Centre is to support dementia services
to plan, deliver and / or improve the quality of services for older people
with dementia. These include curriculum design, development, teaching and
training.
From February 2011 DSDCse is offering
a work placed module called ‘Skills for Facilitating Learning
in Dementia Care’.
The module will prepare professionals
at level 6 for teaching dementia awareness in the work place. The module
content includes aspects of leadership, organisational change management,
skills for teaching and learning and skills for delivering accredited QCF
teaching dementia awareness materials.
Delegates who successfully complete
the module and assignment will be able to join a live data base of people
who are prepared to deliver accredited dementia awareness training on the
DSDCse web site. They will be invited back on an annual basis for an update
and to renew their place on the data base.
Who Is the Course Aimed At?
This 20 credit level 6 module is aimed at nurses,
OT’s, physiotherapists, care home managers and senior care workers,
independent trainers, social care staff who need advanced skills in teaching
and learning in dementia care.
Aim
The aim of this course is to enable learners to develop
values and beliefs, knowledge, skills and competency relevant to their work
area, culture and context to be able to deliver dementia awareness training.
Course Content
Delegates will develop a learning agreement using
a template which is formulated and agreed between the learner, the University
and the work place.
The study sessions will include a range of topics
that include:
• Strategies to implement learning
• Theories and principles of teaching and learning
• Leadership, team working and management skills
• Workshops in facilitation of
dementia awareness
In addition, DSDCse also hold a series
of evening lectures, which are FREE
of charge and is open to anyone. All are welcome, including professionals,
carers, people with dementia or anyone else with an interest.
For further information please contact:
Katy Russ
Administrator
Dementia Services Development Centre South East
Canterbury Christ Church University
Becket East Bs25
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
Kent CT1 1QU
Email: katy.russ@canterbury.ac.uk
Telephone: 01227 767 700 Ext: 3884
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Last updated: 3rd February 2012