Excellence in Dementia Training for Care Homes & Domiciliary Care Agencies
Why choose Amber Academy Dementia Training?
Projections of care for older people with dementia in England.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov) projected that the number of individuals living in care homes will rise to 417,000 in 2025 and 667,000 in 2040, an increase of 166% over the 25-year period.
This is a shocking statistic, but it demonstrates a real need for excellence in dementia care. Families will always want to seek the best possible placement for their loved one and having a team that provide excellence in knowledge and care, demonstrate that they are care professionals and have the learning behind their skills is paramount for your service.
Amber Academy Dementia Training is a practical experience that will inform and educate your teams about dementia. It isn’t about watching a ten minute tick box course on youtube or a formal exam. Amber Academy Dementia Training is about real-life scenarios, real life examples and real life solutions to the challenges of dementia care.
I am passionate about dementia and educating as many people as possible about this incredibly challenging and debilitating disease.
My dementia training sessions give you practical examples of the right and the wrong way of approaching dementia care. It will give you examples of the tools you need to help people living with dementia to have the most positive life experiences possible. You will learn how to manage behaviours that challenge, and you will learn from my practical sessions around experiencing dementia at first hand.
We will discuss various scenarios that you have experienced and how the outcomes could have been different. We will discuss how you are ‘feeling’ after a care shift with dementia, and we will talk about positive outcomes that are easy to achieve for everyone.
Amber Academy Dementia Training is interactive, enjoyable, understandable and you will honestly have some ‘lightbulb’ moments that help you truly understand this incredibly challenging disease and how it affects the person living with dementia, their family, their friends and the care team that are supporting them.
Amber Academy Dementia Training for Care Homes & Domiciliary Care Teams
Dementia training is important in all sectors but especially in a care and residential care home setting.
It is essential that registered managers and frontline care staff to take a person-centred approach to dementia care and develop the essential skills to be able to meet the needs of people with dementia and their families.
Amber Academy Course Content
- Local, national and international statistics on dementia
- The different types of dementia and understanding their impacts
- Understanding how dementia effects how people cope with day-to-day life
- Verbal and non-verbal communication
- Establishing trust
- Behaviours positive and challenging
- Nutrition and hydration
- Wellbeing, activities and engagement
- Interaction and feedback to family members
- Brain gym and physical exercise
- Practical sessions to experience living with dementia
The training programme addresses the needs of staff in care homes who work with people living with dementia, including frontline staff, training managers and care home managers.
Duration
All course durations are different but please call or email to discuss options for your service. We can create bespoke yet affordable packages as well.
Qualifications
All courses by Amber Academy are registered with The CPD so all participants will be credited with CPD points. They will also receive a certificate and badge which states that they are a ‘Care Professional’ thus elevating their value in being a care professional, understanding dementia and being dedicated to excellence.
Find out more by contacting us using the form below or call Lesley-Anne Lloyd on 07778 196931 or lal@amber-support.com
Dementia Friends Sessions
The dementia friends programme is a totally free of charge information session that takes around 45 minutes. Dementia friends sessions can be delivered to anyone, family, friends, businesses and from 1 person to 100 people and more.
Lesley-Anne delivers these sessions in her role as an Ambassador for The Alzheimer’s Society. The Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friends programme is the biggest ever initiative to change people’s perceptions of dementia. It aims to transform the way the nation thinks, acts and talks about the condition. Dementia Friends is about learning more about dementia and the small ways you can help.
From telling friends about the Dementia Friends programme to visiting someone you know living with dementia, every action counts.
Attend an Information Session Information Sessions are run by Dementia Friends Ambassadors to help you understand what it’s like to live with dementia and the actions you can take.
Get your organisation involved We work with all types of organisations from large to small across the private, public and third sector and support them to roll out Dementia Friends to their workforce.
‘Employees were proud that M&S were talking about dementia; they wear their badge with pride and feel they are able to support customers more.’ Beth Ryder, Employee Wellbeing Manager, Marks & Spencer.
