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.
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
