CPD Approved

Dementia Awareness Course Description

The 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.

Duration: 25 minutes (Note: This is based on the amount of video content shown and is rounded off. It does not account in any way for loading time or thinking time on the questions)

Target Audience

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

Advantages

This Dementia awareness course will go over information such as how Dementia is used to describe the symptoms that occur when the brain is affected by specific diseases and conditions and that Dementia is a chronic progressive problem of cognition – which is 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.

Further Progression for Dementia Awareness

We offer other medical courses that would be perfect for someone who also has this course.

Module Number	Module Name	Pass % Required
1	What Is Dementia?	70
2	The Brain	70
3	Types of Dementia	70
4	Strategies to Use with Clients with Dementia, and Dealing with Challenging Behaviour	70

Recommended System Requirements

Browser: Up to date web browser
Video: Up to date video drivers
Memory: 1Gb+ RAM
Download Speed: Broadband (3Mb+)