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WORKING WITH DEMENTIA AND STROKES

Dementia and strokes training from one of the UK's leading providers of intensive short courses.

   
   
 
   
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Older People
Key Knowledge and Skills
Working with Dementia and Strokes
Working with Depression in Older People
           
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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
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A 3-day course covering:

•  Brain anatomy. An overview of the brain, the left and right hemispheres and their
   functions, the frontal lobe, dysexecutive syndrome, the parietal, temporal and occipital
   lobes. The functions of each of the lobes, and what symptoms occur when each is
  damaged.

•  Brain function. Perception, including recognition disorders (e.g. the inability to recognise
   faces). Memory, including short and long term memory and also ‘prospective’ memory
   (remembering to do things). Language impairment, movement disorders.

•  Dementia. Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, lewy body dementia and
   fronto-temporal dementia. Dementia-like symptoms not caused by dementia and how
   they may be treated. The diagnosis and management of dementia. Drugs for Alzheimer’s
   disease. Suitable activities. Sexual difficulties. Coping with unusual behaviour.

•  Helping carers and relatives in looking after people with dementia.

•  Strokes. What are they? The two crucially different causes, and the range of deficits that
   may occur as a result. Rehabilitation. Why ‘practicing’ remembering tends to be
   remarkably ineffective whilst using some memory aids can produce very good results.

•  Aphasia, apraxia and agnosia. Typical symptoms and effective interventions to overcome
   them as far as possible. Case examples.

•  End of course quiz and action-planning.

•  Registration and continuing professional development.

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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
We bring the training to you for an all-inclusive fee of £4,165 plus VAT.

 
We are happy to provide our courses anywhere in the world for the standard UK fee plus the cost of one business class return airfare from the UK to the location of the course.




Target Training Day also available on this topic – see Targeted Training Days.

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