Dementia Care

The syllabus includes, for example:

  • Person centred care
  • What dementia care is
  • What dementia care is not
  • What is dementia?
  • Types of dementia
  • Alzheimer’s disease
  • Multi
  • infarct dementia (M.I.D.)
  • Lewy body dementia
  • Pick’s disease
  • Korsakoff’s syndrome
  • Aphasia
  • Apraxia
  • Agnosia
  • Early stages of dementia
  • The progressive stages
  • Later stage dementia
  • Informing the sufferer
  • How significant others cope
  • Managing risk
  • Informed judgement
  • Advocacy
  • Life history
  • Setting goals
  • Communication
  • Medication
  • Environment
  • Behavioural difficulties
  • Wandering
  • Food and nutrition
  • Continence
  • Activities
  • Sexuality