Category: Visual Impairment

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Dementia and Sight Loss Training

 

Dementia and Sight loss Training

A one day course designed for social care staff working or supporting people with Dementia.

This includes home carers, Rehabilitation Officers (Visual Impairment), OT’s,  Nurses and other professionals.

The course is 7 hours duration, and covers many types of dementia. Such as Alzheimer’s, Infarct dementia’s and Multi Infarct Dementias, Lewy Body’s, Binswanger’s, Parkinson’s disease related Dementia, Pick’s and CJD.

Course Content

You  will look at the  causes and current treatment & support available.

An Image of old Lady with Dementia in a jigsaw with a piece missing to Indicate Dementia
Dementia Missing Pieces

 

 

Additionally the course will look at  complex issues caused by Dementia and sight loss. How this  may  affect  the design of support, assessment and the ability to  develop and maintain a healthy life.

The impact of sight loss

You will understand how sight loss may contribute to visual hallucinations.

How  conditions such as Cerebral Visual Impairment CVI, greatly affects a persons ability to understand what they are seeing.

Understand how this may heighten the effect and degree of Dementia the person is experiencing.

Another important aspect of this  course is that it  will also look at the sight conditions related to the ageing process.

Essential training as Dementia and sight loss are rarely put together as a condition but is more common than you might realise.

These include  cataracts, macular disease, diabetic related eye conditions, refraction issues and how these impact on everyday tasks.

Essentially this  will greatly improve your  communication support for people living with this condition.

It will  provide you with ideas, for better, safer, and easier to use environmental design for people with dementia and sight loss.

The course explores the additional signs of sensory deterioration to look out for.

These maybe indicating sight loss,  or hearing loss such as Presbyacusis and other common symptoms of a dual diagnosis and how you can get further support.

This in turn will help you to develop and change your practice more effectively.

This course is offered In house for up to twenty people at a venue of your choosing for £800 INC VAT

Or you can access one of our many training days around the UK on our training course pages

 

 

 

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Supporting People who have Dementia and Sight Loss

Course information: Supporting People who have Dementia & Sight Loss

A one-day workshop for Rehabilitation Officers and support staff supporting people who have Dementia and may be experiencing Sight difficulties this course is designed to give an overview of Dementia and common sight conditions experienced by older people.

The training course will then look at behaviours associated with sight loss where people are non-verbal or have difficulty explaining what is happening to them as their sight deteriorates.

This includes types of Dementia

Common Eye conditions of Ageing

Common Eye conditions linked to types of Dementia

Behaviours indicating sight loss

Strategies for support

The course will then touch on potential sight testing methods and look at adaptations to daily practice and the care environment to improve support.

This one-day course is delivered through a series of PowerPoint presentations and some group work. It is available in-house for 20 people or as an external workshop or on Zoom.

On line  or face to face courses are advertised on the News and Events section.

However, it is possible to organise your own in house course for up to twenty people in a venue of your choice.

The course is around 7 hours in Duration with Breaks for refreshments or video breaks if on line.

Who should attend?

  • Dementia Support workers
  • Home Managers
  • ROVIs
  • Learning Disability Support Workers working with people who have Down’s Syndrome  or older people with learning disabilities
  • Occupational Therapists and other related professionals

Cost:

  • In-house course £600 + VAT
  • Zoom Courses £75 +VAT

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Supporting People with Visual Impairment and Mental Health Issues

Course information:

The training programme will be facilitated as a series of described PowerPoint sessions and workshop sessions which result in key Practice points for each category.

At the end of the session the group will look at their own practice reflectively and look at what things they might change or do differently in relation to the days additional Knowledge.

Who should attend?

The course has been designed For Rehabilitation workers and Officers and similar professionals who support people with visual impairment in the community or in Hospital settings.

Costs:

  • In-house course £600 + VAT
  • External workshops £100 + VAT

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Visual Awareness Guiding and Environment Audit training

Course information:

This one-day course explores the main eye conditions that affect people with Visual Disabilities and will provide experience of Guiding Skills and Environmental Auditing to ensure safe practice.

This one-day course is delivered through a series of presentations and some group work. It is available in-house for 20 people and includes handouts and resource information to take home.

Who should attend?

This course is open to all Health and Social Care professionals, parents and family carers are especially welcome.

Costs:

  • In-house course £300 + VAT and expenses

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Supporting Older People with a Visual Impairment

Course information:

A one-day course designed for care staff to assist their knowledge and understanding of sight loss in Older People.

The course looks at common eye problems, implications for support and covers identification, testing, supporting people before and after surgery for eye care and those who are certified as blind or as visually impaired.

The course is a mixture of presentations and practical exercises that will prepare the staff team for the vast majority of common sight loss scenarios. This course also covers the basics of guiding and support Issues.

The course can be carried out at your place of work or, if this isn’t practical, from a location nearby for a small additional fee.

The programme can be modified to suit your care needs, for example you may prefer more guiding skills, or environmental adjustment relating to access and DDA please contact us to assist you with your specific needs.

Costs:

  • In-house course £600 + VAT
  • Contact us if you need a location nearby.

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Supporting people who are Deafblind with Learning Disabilities Course

Deafblind person doing sign language

Course information:

This one-day course on Supporting people who are Deafblind with learning disabilities  identifies the key visual and hearing conditions which combined can lead an individual to be supported as Deafblind.

It covers both congenital and acquired Deafblind issues and will provide an overview of the best communication support methods and resources for further support.

It is available in-house for 20 people and includes handouts and resource information to take home.

Who should attend?

This course is open to all Education ,Health and Social Care professionals, parents and family carers who are supporting people who are Deafblind with learning disabilities, SEN Teachers  and Parents are especially welcome.

Costs:

  • In-house course £400 + VAT
  • On line Course from £50 per person

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Disability in the Equality Act (Updated for BREXIT)

How is your compliance?

Course information:

This one-day workshop is effectively an Audit tool for your business. Gender, Age, Sexuality, Disability was pulled into one act in 2010 called the Equality ACT, it was also strengthened in parts by new additions to Disability Discrimination Law, and Human Rights Law.

This one-day workshop is designed to ensure that you make cost effective reasonable adjustment without harming your service delivery.

The day will cover what’s new in the Equality Act that you need to know including:

  • How the Human rights legislation is enforced: Myths and Facts
  • What are the key issues for people with disabilities? This covers blind and visually impaired people, deafblind, physically disabled people, people with mental health problems and people with a learning disability.
  • Getting it right; what is reasonable adjustment?
  • Access issues (staff and customers)
  • Communication issues (staff and customers)
  • Employing disabled people
  • Where you can get help?
  • (updated) What are the Implications of Brexit to Equality & rights?

It is available in-house for 20 people and includes handouts and resource information to take home.

Costs:

  • In-house course £800 + VAT

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Supporting People with a Visual Impairment and a Learning Disability

Course information:

Our Most Popular Course

Studies show approximately one third of the population of people with a learning disability could be registered blind or partially sighted (500,000). Accordingly a further third (500,000), require glasses or contact lenses to correct their vision.  Source RNIB (2005)

However, many people with a learning disability  do not get access to the right eye health support.  As a result many go blind through treatable eye conditions that are not detected and because of communication difficulties. Emerson & Robertson (2011)

This one-day course you will be attending, outlines the common visual disabilities found in the learning disabled population. It will cover  the behaviours that indicate sight loss. Identify treatments and the development of person centred care pathways, and the additional support available.

Subsequently, it will help you to rethink your practice and consider how to  more accessible to people requiring the services you are providing.

Furthermore  the course covers Cortical Visual Impairment and the symptoms related to it and the many ways it affects learning and development and support design.

The day will also look at sight testing from both the  functional  and acuity testing perspectives. you will then learn how to support the individual and their carers through eye surgery, and wearing glasses for the first time.

It is available in-house for 20 people or as an external workshop.

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