Dementia Awareness (E-learning)

What is Dementia?

Dementia is used to describe the symptoms that occur when the brain is affected by specific diseases and conditions. Dementia is a chronic progressive problem of cognition – which is the failure of the brain’s functions. It affects people at different stages of life, it affects different parts of the brain and it affects it at different speeds.

Who is the Dementia Awareness Course Suitable For?

The Dementia Awareness course is suitable for anyone who works with or around people that may be suffering with dementia.

What's Included in the Dementia Awareness Course?

This online Dementia Awareness course is intended to give you an overview of the common types and symptoms of dementia as well as going into how it can affect the brain in different ways. It also covers strategies to use with clients with dementia and dealing with challenging behaviour.

Course Content

• What Is Dementia?
• The Brain
• Types of Dementia
• Strategies to Use with Clients with Dementia, and Dealing with Challenging Behaviour

Course Duration

25 - 40 Minutes

Accreditation

CPD Approved

Related Content

• CACHE Level 3 Award in Awareness of Dementia
• Mental Health, Dementia and Learning Disabilities course
• Care courses
• Mental Health courses

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PC / Mac

OS: Microsoft Windows XP / Mac OS X 10.6

Browsers

Chrome 16+, Firefox 8+, IE9, Safari for Mac 5+

Up to date video drivers

Memory

Minimum of 512MB DDR

Software

Flash Player 10+

Download Speed

Broadband (3Mb+)

Mobile

The content has been tested and is known to work on iOS devices from the iPad 2 onwards and iPhone 4 onwards.

Tested on some Android devices including the Samsung Galaxy tab II and the Kindle Fire HD.

Beyond this is should work on most other Android devices but there may be some exceptions depending on OS version and browser used.

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