Dementia Care Course

This course prepares careworkers to have a deeper knowledge on dementia and the professional skills to be able to give a holistic, comprehensive, and patient-centered care. The primary training objective is to develop competencies in assessment, communication, health-care planning, providing care and responding to special needs of the elderly with dementia.

Dementia Care Course

MODULE 1: Understanding the Aging Phenomenon

MODULE 2: Assessment of the Elderly and Understanding Common Geriatric Syndromes

MODULE 3: Dementia: The Brain, the Disease, and the Person

MODULE 4: Principles of Care and Quality of Life in Dementia

MODULE 5: Providing Care and Support to the Elderly and Persons with Dementia

MODULE 6: Communicating with the Elderly and Persons with Dementia

MODULE 7: Responding to Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

MODULE 8: Rehabilitation in Dementia

MODULE 9: Planning and Managing Nutritional Needs

MODULE 10: Palliative Care in Dementia and Management of Pain

MODULE 11: Emergency Preparedness Skills, Safe Physical Environment and Infection Control

MODULE 12: Caring for the Caregiver