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Understanding Dementia: Explaining dementia as a decline in cognitive abilities affecting behavior, memory, and reasoning.
Types of Dementias: Covering common forms like Lewy body dementia, vascular dementias, and Alzheimer's disease, and understanding their specific symptoms.
Identifying Symptoms: Recognizing early signs of dementia such as mood and behavior changes, and memory loss.
Communication Strategies: Providing advice on effective communication with dementia patients, including patience, maintaining eye contact, and using simple language.
Providing Care: Discussing methods for delivering quality care, including fostering independence, creating a secure environment, and seeking help from medical professionals and support networks.
Lessons
This course has been particularly designed to raise the awareness and skills of care staff who work with people with dementia. This course seeks out to improve the welfare and experience of people with dementia.
Module 1: what is dementia?
Let’s have a look at the various parts of the brain. The first part, frontal lobes which are controller damage; can lead to the individual no longer being aware of what actions could be seen by others as unsuitable. Next, the parietal lobes damage to these by dementia will cause the individual to have difficulty with language vision or knowing what's up things are fool. Finally, the temporal lobes damage to this area of the brain causes the individual to have problems with short term memory and eventually the long term memories may also fade away as the damage increases further into the deeper regions of the brain.
Module 3: Alzheimer’s disease & Parkinson’s [S1] Disease
Module 4: Strategies to use with clients with Dementia
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