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Courses
January to March 2009
FANCY
FOOTWORK
Course Aim: To provide a dignified and humane framework
for responding to people with dementia who appear to be occupying
another reality.
Trainer: Sally Knocker
Date: 19th Jan 2009
WORKING WITH UNUSUAL BEHAVIOUR
NEW!
Course Aim: The course will provide an update for Social Workers
on practice skills in assessing and planning for clients with
very diverse needs. This is not a course about the basics
of Dementia theory, but an opportunity to challenge and reflect
on practice. Case Studies will be used to explore some of
the dilemmas facing social workers and care managers, for
example:
How to keep the service user central?
How to negotiate user choice and creative responses to need
in a resource constrained environment?
How to balance users and carers needs with risks?
Trainer: Jacky Mortimer
Date: 23rd Jan 2009
PERSON CENTRED COMMUNICATION (COMMUNICATION
WITH PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA)
Course Aim: To refresh learners’ knowledge of
the causes of confusion and practice strategies for dealing
with common communication problems with people with dementia.
Trainer: Aubrey Maasdorp
Date: 26th January 2009
MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP & TEAM
BUILDING
Course Aim: To enable learners to understand the difference
between management and leadership and to provide guidance
on carrying out supervision sessions, including setting and
reviewing objectives. This course is aimed at team leaders
and assistant/deputy/senior managers and anyone who needs
to lead a team of people. The course will also provide guidance
on investigation of incidents and recording information in
an appropriate format.
Trainer: Sylvia Cowleard
Date: 28th Jan 2009
THE ONLY GAY IN THE CARE HOME - MEETING THE NEEDS OF OLDER
LESBIANS AND GAY MEN
NEW!
Course Aim: To provide an overview of the changes in
the lives of older lesbians and gay men over the last fifty
years and how this may influence their care and support needs.
Trainer: Sally Knocker & Mike Phillips
Date: 29th Jan 2009
MY CULTURAL DIVERSITY OR YOURS?
Course Aim: To explore the difficult issues that can
be raised for people from different cultures when working
with older people and people with dementia. The course will
consider the dilemmas that can be raised by staff who may
face prejudice from their clients/service-users and how these
may be managed.
Trainer: Aubrey Maasdorp
Date: 30th Jan 09
DEVELOPING POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS
WITH RELATIVES AND CARERS
Course Aim: To give learners an opportunity to consider
the experiences of family members looking after a person with
dementia, in particular the losses and stresses involved when
a relative moves into residential care.
Trainer: Sally Knocker
Date: 5th Feb 2009
DEMENTIA: ADVANCED SKILLS
Course Aim: To explore the causes of stress and its
impact and a range of coping strategies for stress management
to reduce the effect of stress on the health of staff and
organisations they work in.
Trainer: Fiona Fowler
Date: 20th Feb 2009
SUPERVISION SKILLS FOR MANAGERS
Course Aim: To provide managers working in dementia
care settings with an overview of supervision skills. The
course will demonstrate how to set boundaries and encourage
good practice, it also explores ways to use these meetings
as an opportunity to develop an individual and motivate them
to do well in the workplace. The course will be of particular
interest to those who are new to line-managing staff.
Trainer: Sylvia Cowleard
Date: 26th Feb 2009
HOW TO MANAGE YOUR STRESS
NEW!
Course Aim: To identify the differences between pressure
and stress, explore the impact of stress and strategies for
managing stress within ourselves, our colleagues and our workplace.
Trainer: Mike Phillips
Date: 4th March 2009
VALUING DIVERSITY: WORKING WITH PEOPLE
WITH DEMENTIA FROM DIFFERENT CULTURES
Course Aim: To raise cross-cultural awareness and understanding
of strategies for providing services to these clients. Using
case studies, learners will look at some of the problems and
dilemmas that can arise. Specific information about some of
the resources available to support clients will also be provided.
Trainer: Aubrey Maasdorp
Dates: 9th March 2009
PROVIDING TELEPHONE SUPPORT TO FAMILY
CARERS
Course Aim: To identify and practice the skills of
using the telephone as an effective medium for offering advice,
information and support. This course will be of particular
interest to volunteers and paid workers who may offer support
to family carers on the telephone as part of their work.
Trainer: Aubrey Maasdorp & Mike Phillips
Date: 12TH March 2009
DIET & NUTRITION IN OLDER PEOPLE’S
CARE
Course Aim: To provide information relating to malnutrition,
the basic principals of nutrition and safe food handling.
To give learners the opportunity to consider planning a healthy
diet for older people.
Trainer: Sylvia Cowleard
Date: 13th Mar 2009
Printable
Training Booking Form (pdf)
for dementia is
sometimes asked for advice about what training in dementia
is available around the country.
Apart from the
courses run by for dementia training, we have links
to Dementia Care Mapping courses and post-registration dementia
courses run by universities (ENB N11 equivalent courses and
others).
For further
details contact:
info@fordementia.org.uk
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