Table of Contents

1. Tutorial Video
2. Reading Materials
• ‘A guide to assistive aids and technology’ by Skills for Care
• ‘Assistive technology’ on the World Health Organisation website
• ‘Assistive technology: Definition and safe use’ on the Gov UK website
• ‘Assistive technology’ by Social Care Wales
• ‘Carers’ experience of using assistive technology for dementia care at home: a qualitative study’ by Vimal Sriram et. al, published by the British Medical Journal
• ‘A guide to Assistive Technology’ by Plymouth City Council
• ‘Patients and machines: does technology help or hinder empathy and person-centred care?’ on The Health Foundation website
3. Presentation
4. Good Practice Example
5. Good Practice Example
6. Interactive Quiz
7. Evidence Opportunities
• NCFE CACHE 2022 (610/0673/7)
• NCFE CACHE
• Highfield
• TQUK
• iCQ
• IAO
8. Extended Learning
• ‘Improving outcomes, enhancing care: Assistive technologies and the case for a Sector Deal for the learning disability sector’ by Hft and Tunstall Healthcare.
• Dementia-friendly technology for organisations’ on the Alzheimer’s Society website.
• Click to find impartial advice about equipment to help make daily living easier from AskSARA's Medequip website.
• Click to read ‘Technology changing lives: How technology can support the goals of the Care Act’ by the SCIE.
• Click to access the website of the British Assistive Technology Association (BATA).
• ‘How assistive technology can help to improve dementia care’ on the Access website. Click to read this blog.
• ‘Assistive technology’ by Sense. Click to learn about different types of technology and communication aids.
9. Think And Challenge