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"DEMENTIA KNOWLEDGE CENTRE" PROGRAM
Dementia Knowledge Centre. London, England.
Access available online.
Program Description
The "Dementia Knowledge Centre" has a library available for access at a physical site as well as online.
The "Dementia Knowledge Centre" helps to educate and train health and social care professionals, researchers, trainers and students.
Dementia resource materials include: medical information, health care, social care, housing, design, therapies, novels, personal accounts and more.
The"Dementia Knowledge Centre" publishes a series of helpful Quick Fact Sheets on dementia.
A large variety of dementia training topics are covered:
-Adaptations, improvements and repairs to the home
-Equipment to help with disability
-The Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE)
-Assistive technology - devices to help with everyday living
-Driving and dementia
-Counselling: how can it help?
-Dental care and dementia
-Festivals, holidays and celebrations
-Respite care
-After a diagnosis
-Travelling and going on holiday
-Frequently asked legal questions
-Selecting a care home
-Understanding and respecting lesbian and gay people
-Choosing residential accommodation for lesbian and gay people
-Communicating
-Moving and walking about
-Coping with incontinence
-Safety in the home
-Washing and bathing
-Keeping active and staying involved
-Dementia and children or young people
-Grief and bereavement
-Dealing with aggressive behaviour
-Dressing
-Eating and drinking
-Pressure sores
-Sex and dementia
The Alzheimer's Society also provides support services for those with dementia and their caregivers through the "Alzheimer's Society National Dementia Helpline," online forums and a unique, user friendly “dementia brain tour,” that shows how the brain works and how it changes in those with dementia.
source: alzheimers.org.uk
The "Alzheimer's Society" also provides the following other Alzheimer's and Dementia programs:
Alzheimer's Society Training in Dementia for Caregivers Program
Alzheimer's Multicultural Awareness Program
