Sector Training Activities

Dementia & Intellectual Disability

This 1-day training session will assist in developing your understanding of Dementia.
How the brain alters and what changes occur to the individual throughout their lifespan.
Develop an understanding of the impacts for the individual with Dementia, their family, friends and yourself.
Gain a better understanding of health, environmental and communication changes.
How simple methods of support, changes to environment can be of great benefit for the individual and yourself.

Feedback from training sessions:

“Different types of dementia – never heard of lewy-body dementia before today.”

“I found the course very interesting and informative now have a better knowledge.”

“How dementia changes an individual’s perception.”

“I have enjoyed learning about dementia, very informative and quite new for me a lot of it would be applied to my group home and correct some of the environmental creation of behaviour.”

Training dates:

24 July 2015

25 September 2015

19 October 2015

2 November 2015