DementiaTraining

Dementia training built on current doctoral research and two decades of running services. Not a course bought off a shelf and delivered by someone reading the slides.

 

Most dementia training tells your staff that care should be person-centred. Ours begins with a harder question: which person? Two people with the same diagnosis, on the same corridor, can have entirely different experiences of dementia. Gender, ethnicity, first language, faith, sexuality, class, disability, whether someone was in care as a child, whether they lived forty years in a community that has since disappeared — all of it shapes how dementia is recognised, how it is disclosed, how it is diagnosed, and what support a person is offered or refused along the way.

 

Training that skips this teaches person-centred care as a principle and leaves staff to work out the specifics on their own, in the moment, usually while short-staffed.We teach the specifics.

 

Why our dementia training is different

 

It is research-led, not recycled

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Our Director is a doctoral researcher at the University of Stirling, working on intersectionality and person-centred dementia care, and a published author on inclusive dementia care. What that means practically is that the content reflects where the evidence has actually moved to, rather than a course written some years ago and lightly refreshed since. When something changes in the research or the regulatory position, the training changes with it. It is written by people who have run services

 

Research on its own produces training that is interesting and unusable.

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Every module is written by people who have held registered manager and director-level responsibility in social care, and each one has to answer a single test before it goes into the programme: what changes on Monday's shift? If a session cannot be reduced to something a care worker will do differently, it does not earn its place.Inclusion runs through it, rather than sitting beside it

 

Equality and diversity is usually a separate module that staff sit through once.

 

In our programme the intersectional lens is threaded through every session — through communication, through distress and responsive behaviour, through life story work, through end-of-life care. It is not an add-on because in practice it is not an add-on.

 

It is mapped to the framework your regulator uses.

 

Training that cannot be evidenced is training you paid for twice. Every session is mapped to the national workforce framework for your jurisdiction, so that what your staff have completed can be shown directly against what an inspector expects to see.