Dementia care
In this lesson, you will learn:
- What dementia is and what its symptoms are
- The cognitive functions likely to be affected by dementia
- The reasons why depression, delirium and age related memory impairment can be mistaken for dementia
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Types of dementia’ on the Alzheimer’s Society website
- ‘The brain and dementia’ on the Alzheimer’s Society website
- ‘Dementia and the brain’ by Dr Caroline Vafeas, Dr Elisabeth Jacob, and Sarah White
- ‘Symptoms of dementia’ on the NHS website
- ‘After diagnosis of dementia’ on the SCIE website
- ‘Living with young onset dementia’ on the Young Dementia UK website
- ‘Using person-centred thinking to implement dementia care mapping’ published by Helen Sanderson Associates
- ‘How to create a daily care plan for someone with dementia’ from the Unforgettable website
- ‘Dementia’ on the Skills for Care website
- ‘Dementia: assessment, management and support for people living with dementia and their carers’ by NICE
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation on ‘Causes of dementia’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘The impact of diagnosis of dementia’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s third presentation on ‘Applying a person-centred approach to dementia care’.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click the link to the NHS website about dementia.
- Click to read ‘The Eden alternative domains of well-being: Revolutionizing the experience of home by bringing well-being to life’.
- Click on the link below to access the Social Care Institute for Excellence’s Open Dementia Programme chapter about the emotional impact of dementia.
- ‘The seven areas of wellbeing’ by Dr Caroline Vafeas, Dr Elisabeth Jacob, and Sarah White.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘The seven areas of wellbeing’.
- Good Practice Example
- Think And Challenge
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