The Dementia Care Training Library is a unique modular suite of person-centred, dementia-specific content designed to enable professionals working in relevant care services to deliver in-house training. The foundation Starter Pack provides core introductory modules on dementia awareness and challenging behaviour, enabling care staff to recognise the unique identity and life story of every individual with dementia and to respond to challenging behaviour in appropriate, person-centred ways. The Starter Pack is expandable, and over time further modules will become available for sale. All Dementia Care Training Library materials take an Action Learning approach, providing a balance of information and practice-based activities that allow learners to reflect on and apply new knowledge in real time as a staff team, and which ultimately lead to changes in practice in the care environment.
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
