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Dementia Awareness
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Intended audience group: 1 and 2
Group 1: Unpaid carers*, paid carers, volunteers, people living with conditions and personal assistants of care when funding may be used from personal health budgets for continuous healthcare.
Group 2: Basic awareness for all front line staff in all health and social care environments, (residential, domiciliary, nursing and community), including volunteers, people living with conditions and personal assistants of care when funding may be used from personal health budgets for continuous healthcare.
This course aims to provide the learner with the skills and knowledge to be able to recognise the stages of dementia identify dementia as a disability list the most common types of dementia and their causes and identify factors relating to an individuals experience of dementia.
Central Bedfordshire Council’s Learning Central
Skills for Care has listed this as a specifice condition as part of the core and mandatory training for all ASC worforce. It supports:
CQC
- KLOEs
Safe: S3
Effective: E1, E2, E4
Caring: C1, C3, C4
Responsive: R1
Well-led: W1, W2 - CQC fundamental standards: Staffing
Skills for Care’s suggested refresher frequency
- It is expected that providers will monitor performance to assess knowledge and competence at least annually
- Provide learning and development opportunities when identifed or required or when a new need is identifed
- At least every 3 years
