Course details
The aim of the programme is to introduce staff to the differing aspects and considerations within dementia-care; emphasising the importance of knowing each individual resident and to augment staff’s understanding of the role of communication and behaviour within dementia care. The programme is facilitated by Person Centred Healthcare Training.
Objectives:
- Facilitation of staff’s self-awareness within this field
- To help staff understand the symptoms and signs of the differing dementias
- To explore the role of psychological needs in the well-being of each resident
- To facilitate staff to consider the lived experience of the person with dementia
- To identify with staff the importance of having as much knowledge about the inpidual
- Discussion around activity and stimulation
- To emphasise the importance of recognising and responding to feelings and emotions experienced through the varying stages of dementia
- To help staff recognise that a person’s communication style may alter due to presence of a dementia
- To help staff explore the role of behaviour in expressing unmet needs
- To learn about a framework that responds to behaviour in a personcentred way
This programme has Category 1 Approval, CEU’s Continuing Education Units from An Bord Altranais
Updated on 08 November, 2015Course Location
About Milford Care Centre
The overall infrastructure at We_They has changed dramatically over the years since the establishment of Milford House Nursing Home by the Little Company of Mary in 1928. Despite these physical changes we, as a healthcare facility, have strived to ensure that we continue to deliver the highest quality and safe care to our residents, patients and visitors. Today we still uphold the core message of the Little Company of Mary which is reflected in our Mission Statement.
I hope you will have time to browse through our site to see the full range of services we can now offer to our service users and see the supports we provide for family members. We believe that the people we serve deserve only the best and that is what we seek to achieve through our continuous improvement policies and training. Our job here in We_They is to make a positive difference to people’s quality of life and this is a role that we take very seriously.
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