Brief description
This programme aims to enhance quality of life for the person living with dementia. This programme will provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to enable a person centred approach to supporting the person living with dementia and their family. Topics covered include:
- Challenging beliefs and attitudes to dementia
- Dementia and a human rights approach
- Person centred communication
- Partnership in dementia care
- Creating dementia friendly environments
- Non-cognitive symptoms
- Palliative care and the person living with dementia
- Nutrition and dementia
Duration
2 days
Mode of delivery
Group Face to Face
Cost
Free
Target Audience
All staff working in residential and community care settings that may come into contact with a person living with dementia and their family. There is a bespoke national acute dementia education programme, however, some acute hospitals also deliver the 2 day programme.
Areas Available and Providers Details
St. James's Hospital, Dublin
Centre of Nursing and Midwifery Education (CNME), St. James, Dublin
Snehal Prabhukeluskar
Regional Education Co-ordinator South Dublin, Kildare & Wicklow
Register Nurse Tutor
Centre for Learning and Development, St James’s Hospital, Dublin 8.
Email: SPrabhukeluskar@STJAMES.IE
Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford and South Tipperary
Contact: Centre of Nursing and Midwifery Education (CNME)
Kerry
Centre of Nursing and Midwifery Education (CNME)
Contact: Mary McNamara, Specialist Coordinator, KCNME
Sligo
Centre of Nursing and Midwifery Education (CNME)
Sligo, Leitrim, West Cavan
Contact: Moya Comer
Donegal
Centre of Nursing and Midwifery Education (CNME)
Contact: Philippa McGavigan, CNME, St. Conal's Campus, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Cork
Centre of Nurse Education (CNE), Mercy University Hospital, Cork
Contact: Angela Geary, Specialist Coordinator
Laois/Offaly
Contact: Joan Mannion
Mayo and Roscommon
Contact: Grainne Glacken, Specialist coordinator, CNME, Mayo & Roscommon
Peamount Healthcare in Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow
Contact: Mary Doyle