Overview
This one day course for Social workers and Social care workers is to understand dementia and how it may present. We will consider how this may inform how you undertake a social work assessment and contribute to support plans. It will ensure that as a professional you will maintain a strengths base approach.Who is Understanding Dementia in Social Care Practice aimed at?
Social workers and Social care workersCourse Length
1 dayLearning Outcomes
By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:-
- Understand the different types of dementia and how they can progress. Have an awareness of the Impact of medication.
- The impact of other co-existing conditions, specifically Learning Disabilities
- Understanding the impact of dementia for the person and their family.
- Impact of dementia on co-morbidities
- How to carry out an assessment when someone may or may not have a diagnosis of dementia.
- To consider how best to modify your communication to ensure that you can gather their wishes and feelings, with or with a Learning Disability.
- Specific considerations when a person presents with early onset dementia of how to ensure we develop the plan to support their needs and aspirations.
- Ensuring that you maintain a strengths based approach in that you: ensure your assessments and reports are written in clear language that a family would understand (ie not using medical language), ensure that we explore and understand how the person would like things to be.
