Dayspring Dementia Training - Course Breakdown |
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Learning Matters - Core Skills in Dementia
What is dementia?Types of dementia
That is NOT dementia
Brain structure and damage in dementia
Effects of DementiaMemory losses
Problems with decisions
Loss of self
Hallucination, delusion, sun downing, emotional lability, confabulation
Catastrophic reaction
Cause TheoryIdentity - and all it means; identity as an important issue in dementia
Introduction to challenging behaviour & communication
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Brainwaves - Theory and Practice of Dementia for Nurses
Unit One:
Section One: The medical/organic model seen in context
Section Two: The needs of people with dementia
Section Three: What's bothering the person who knows she has dementia?
Unit Two:
Section One: Life tasks
Section Two: Advanced communication and therapy
Section Three: Grief and loss
Unit Three:
Section One: Drugs and dementia
Section Two: Malignant social environment
Section Three: Assessments and testing
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Synergy - Activities and Assessments for People with Dementia
Learning modalities
Visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic
Activity and the person with dementia
Planning sessions
Evaluating sessions
"Rules" to think about
Appropriate assistance
Spectator sports
Developing activity-based in-house assessments
Price: £42. There are discounts available for taking multiple courses. Payment terms can be arranged to suit your budget. See our FAQ for more information.
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Challenges in Practice - Behaviour and Ethical Issues in dementia
The course consists of 3 parts:
Part One
What is challenging behaviour?
Types of behaviour which may be challenging.
Whose problem is it?
Challenging behaviour as a form of communication.
Apathy as a challenging behaviour.
Part Two
Section 1.
The two part crisis; on the day and afterwards - method and investigation.
Using outside resources.
The use and misuse of neuroleptic drugs.
Section 2.
Causes and triggers; theories and practices, the role of carers, avoiding difficulties.
Dementia treatments, their mechanisms, efficacy and potential for cure
Part Three
Ethical issues around dementia are coming more and more to the fore. This unit considers genetics and genetic counselling as well as gene therapy and genetic engineering. We think about informed consent, research and treatments, drugs, and possible difficulties around "do not resucitate" orders and Living Wills. The unit will change as new things come to light.
Price: £42. There are discounts available for taking multiple courses. Payment terms can be arranged to suit your budget. See our FAQ for more information.
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MusicWorks - Working with the emotions with people with dementia
Divided into three fairly large parts:
Part One
Considers the structure of the limbic system, the person with dementia and the processing of emotion and introduces "How Do You Feel?"
Part Two
Thinks about the uses of music in history, culture and as: Relaxation, Stimulation, Reminiscence, Entertainment. It also discusses the making of individual activity tapes for people with dementia. There is a "How do You Feel?" exercise.
Part Three
Asks why people with dementia might appreciate music more than anyone else - and introduces theories around this. It also considers the making of entrainment tapes for ourselves and the people under our care. There is a "How do You Feel?" exercise.
Price: £42. There are discounts available for taking multiple courses. Payment terms can be arranged to suit your budget. See our FAQ for more information.
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Sensation - Multi-sensory working with people with dementia
A very practical course which requires the participant to pay great attention to the senses and validate the fact that they are the only ways which the brain (including the dementing brain) can communicate with the outside world.
Part OneSection 1. The synergy of senses, feelings of loss, putting ourselves, imaginatively, into the place of the person experiencing loss, hypaesthesia. Multi-sensory rooms and everyday multi-sensory work; a richer experience
Section 2. Seeing in believing - sight structure (neural mechanism) and physiology, blindsight, testing, hallucinations, edge faults, deterioration in sense and in dementia. Using mobiles, mirrors, fibre optics, bubble tubes. Creating a visually appealing environment. |  |
Part TwoSection 1. Hearing, music, sounds, vibrations, synchronicity, the neural mechanism of hearing, communication with people who are deaf as well as dementing and how one is sometimes mistaken for the other. Using unfamiliar music, recorded sounds, rain stick, percussion instruments. Creating an appealing auditory environment
Section 2. The Nose Knows You Know - scent, aromatherapy, background, reminiscence, the neural pathways. Using diffusers and scent kits. Creating an appealing olfactory environment.
Section 3. Tactile stimulation, hugs and touches (and warnings!), feeling stuff - with your hand, massage, intrusion and appreciation. Using texture boxes/boards, lucky dips. Creating an appealing tactile environment.
Part ThreeSection 1. Taste, the importance of food as pleasure stimulus for people with dementia. Treats and meals (introduction only). Creating an appealing gustatory environment.
Section 2. Proprioception - the importance of movement and muscle sense. Using rocking chairs and exercise.
Section 3. Putting it all together to work with people with dementia in old and new ways.
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Food for Thought - Issues around food with people with dementia
Revision of food hygiene
What is food for?
Physiology
Psychology
People with dementia and food
Hyperphagia in dementia
Hypophagia in dementia
The eating of non-food items
Sweet, sweeter, sweetest!
Risk assessment
Feeding and re-introducing self-feeding
Psychology of food
Food in activities
Taste-testing
Kitchen activities
The kitchen as the centre of the home
The use of favourites cards
Staging a food-based event
Price: £42. There are discounts available for taking multiple courses. Payment terms can be arranged to suit your budget. See our FAQ for more information.
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Grace Notes - Spirituality & People with Dementia
Consists of two fairly equal parts:
Part OneSection 1 covers: What is spirituality? Our spiritual journey. Challenges to spirituality in the 21st century.
Section 2 is about people with dementia and religious belief - beliefs from the past and experiences which are good and comforting - expressions of spirituality in "mainstream" religion, non-mainstream religion and spirituality expressed in non-religious ways.
Part TwoSection 1 considers bad (or seeming to be bad) experiences of religion which have never been resolved and how they can sometimes be related to challenging behaviour, as well as being able to respond to the person with dementia from a position of empathy, where the person's feelings and experience are accepted as being valid.
Section 2 covers ways of working with people with dementia on a spiritual basis; things we can do and setting our boundaries; worship and prayer, talking with people with dementia about God.
Section 3 discusses the "outcomes" of spirituality and religion; how we carry our spirituality into our everyday lives and how we can assist people with dementia to live according to their own perception of how they should do this.
Price: £42. There are discounts available for taking multiple courses. Payment terms can be arranged to suit your budget. See our FAQ for more information.
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Legend - The Story and People with Dementia
Why tell stories?
The stories people tell
Our own story
Techniques with people with dementia:
As you go along
Preparation
Moving into it
Props and effects
Setting the scene
Handing "difficult" issues
Source materials
Keeping a source book
Closing and reporting
Price: £42. There are discounts available for taking multiple courses. Payment terms can be arranged to suit your budget. See our FAQ for more information.
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Synchronicity - Advanced Communication with People with Dementia
Part One:Section One:
How do we communicate?
Parts of communication
Clarity
Section Two:
Special needs with dementia
Intro to British Sign Language
Intro to signifiers
Part Two:Section One:
Words, words, words...
One person's vocabulary
Spontaneous coding
Consistent coding
Section Two:
Kinaesics (body language)
The emotions
Hostility & friendliness
Openness and not...
Changing the dynamic
Interpreting needs
Section Three:
Other non-verbals
Choice
The interpretation of happiness & sadness
Part Three:Section One:
Communication in speech
Tone of voice
Selection of words
Shouting, facing, lip-reading
Section Two:
Behaviour as communication
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Wellspring - Advanced Training in the Person-Centred Care of People with Dementia
The course is divided into three parts:
Part OneSection 1 is general information about dementia, types, prevalence, pathology, cause theory and effects.
Section 2 covers the needs of people with dementia and the various theories on this.
Section 3 is about identity; what it is, our own identity, the identity of the person with dementia, compromising the identity and emphasising the identity.
Part TwoSection 1 is concerned with therapeutic interventions in the past, present and future (Snoezellen, Reality Orientation, Validation Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Dramatherapy, Music Therapy, Sonas, Jabadao, Mnemosthene etc)
Section 2 introduces the theory and practice of Person-Centred Care in some detail
Section 3 considers reasons why PCC is not more commonly practiced and how this might be brought about
Part ThreeThe Person-Centred Organisation and how it might be structured, managed and maintained. This part consists of only one (long) section, including, as it does, consideration of equality & diversity and how these can be promoted in organisations. Dementia Care Mapping is also discussed in this section.
Price: £80. There are discounts available for taking multiple courses. Payment terms can be arranged to suit your budget. See our FAQ for more information.
Special Wellspring - Advanced Managerial Training in the Person-Centred Care of People with Dementia (by Distance Learning)
This course is tailor-made for senior managers who need to brush up their skills in dementia work.
All modules are optional with the exception of Module One which is compulsory, unless the learner has recently undertaken our "Learning Matters - Core Skills in Dementia" course. This is required because, even if the learner has taken basic training previously, things have most likely changed. If you have recently taken Learning Matters, another module may be substituted for Module One.
The learner must take 8 modules in all for the Special Wellspring Certificate.
Module One (Compulsory)
The brain and its pathology in dementia
The effects of the dementias
Dementia cause theory
Module Two (Optional)
Working on identity - what it is, what it does
The needs of people with dementia
Module Three (Optional)
Person-centred working - how it works and how it doesn't
Barriers to person-centred working
The Person-Centred Organisation and how to achieve it
Module Four (Optional)
Therapies (past, present and future)
Sonas, Reality Orientation, Snoezellen, Cognitive and other Behavioural Therapies, Validation, Mnemosthene
Module Five (Optional)
Introduction to meaningful activities
Appropriate assistance
Spectator sports
Module Six (Optional)
Issues around food for people with dementia (not food hygiene!)
Psychology of food
Vegetarian, vegan and special diets, religious observance
Module Seven (Optional)
Drugs - anti-psychotics, tranquillisers, dementia treatments
The future
Module Eight (Optional)
Ethical issues in dementia - locked doors, drug compliance, informed consent, end of life issues (living wills, DNRs etc)
Module Nine (Optional)
Equality and prejudice
Module Ten (Optional)
Communication with people with dementia
Verbal and non-verbal
Behavior as a communication tool
Kinesics (body language)
The laugh index
Module Eleven (Optional)
Behavior in dementia
Where it comes from and why
Causes and triggers
Interventions and solutions
Module Twelve (Optional)
Eriksson's Life Stages - approaching end of life and ego identity
Module Thirteen (Optional)
Grief, loss & coming to terms
Module Fourteen (Optional)
Personal supervision of staff
Module Fifteen (Optional)
Introduction to Dementia Care Mapping (non-qualification)
Module Sixteen (Optional)
Entrainment - changing moods in clients and self, using music
Module Seventeen (Optional)
Home assessments of people with dementia
Assessments by activity
Module Eighteen (Optional)
Supporting Family Carers
Individual support
Group support
Carers education
Module Nineteen (Optional)
Training for trainers
Module Twenty (Optional)
Introduction to spirituality in people with dementia
Price: £200. Extra modules may be taken at £15 per module if required. There is a 10% reduction for registered charities (please provide charity number).
There are overall reductions if other staff in a facility take courses: please ask for a price.
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Dayspring Personal Supervision and Staff Support
Unit One - Part One
What is a supervisor and how is this different from a line manager?
What is the purpose of supervision?
What are the benefits of supervision?
Experiences of supervision - best and worst
Accountability
The supervision contract in theory
Unit One - Part Two
Keeping the contract - the important 'rules' (duration, frequency, reasons for cancelling, open door or not)
Content of appointments
Agendas, notes, reviews, feeding into appraisal
Unit One - Part Three
Learning styles
Getting engagement
Commitment
Formalising the contract
Unit Two - Part One
A nod to managing performance
Fitting into the management structure
Unit Two - Part Two
Personal emotional issues
Emotional issues around the work
Developing inter-personal skills
Unit Two - Part Three
Prejudice - where and what is it? How do our prejudices affect our work?
Barriers for supervisors
Unit Three - Part One
Blocks, collusion and avoidance
Expectations of supervision
Unit Three - Part Two
Functions of supervision (communication and mediation, education and training, supporting and enabling)
If things go wrong (in supervisory relationship, in job, in professional relationships)
Support during disciplinary procedures
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Serendipity - The Happy Accident in Creative Working
Drawing on the right side of the brain
Specialisation of the two halves of the brain
Disengaging the dominant
Setting-up a session with people with dementia
Carrying it out
Evaluating what we did
Finishing off - time constraints
Can you draw?
Introducing new activities to people with dementia
Safeguards for artists
Computing - the new art!
Setting up computer sessions
Not available by distance learning. Contact us to book in-house or ask about taking the course at our headquarters.
Our courses can be provided in-house to groups of up to 12 people in mainland Scotland, and occasionally in other areas of the UK, or by distance learning worldwide. We supply all necessary learning materials, including specially written texts and articles by experts.
If you would like further information on any of our courses, please contact us on:
01577 863824
Internationally: +44 1577 863824
enquiries@day-spring.co.uk
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