Dementia awareness e-learning course

All non-regulated frontline staff working in health and social care including:

• activities workers
• assistant practitioners
• care assistants
• carers
• day care assistants
• domiciliary care workers
• healthcare support workers
• homecare workers
• maternity support workers
• nursing assistants
• personal assistants
• reablement assistants
• residential care workers
• senior homecare workers
• support workers
• volunteers
• and other health or care assistant-related roles

The CQC require organisations to deliver care in a way that is safe, effective, caring and responsive. Organisations must also meet Care Act (2014) requirements and be well-led.

Caring for people in a way that is ‘person-centred’ (that meets the needs and wishes of people and their families) is at the heart of CQC and other legal requirements – because of this it is also the central focus of this course. Finding out what people need and want, being kind and treating people with dignity and respect, are all important aspects of the person-centred approach.

The Department of Health’s best practice guidance Quality Outcomes for People with Dementia: Building on the Work of the National Dementia Strategy (2010) lists four areas of priority in dementia care:

• Good quality early diagnosis
• Improved quality of care in general hospitals
• Living well with dementia in care homes
• Reduced use of antipsychotic medication

This course helps organisations improve in these priority areas by promoting understanding and better care of people with dementia. Better care can be delivered by improving the ability of staff to understand people who are living with dementia, and by improving their ability to respond to behaviour that challenges. Better responses from staff have been shown to reduce distress and reduce the need for antipsychotic medication.

This awareness course has been developed to align with Tier 1 of the National Dementia Training Standards Framework, which is a requirement for all staff working in social care. It will also allow you to collect evidence towards the relevant section of the Care Certificate.

If you are interested in hosting this e-learning course on your Learning Management System (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) we are able to help.

We can provide:

• Course content: A SCORM 1.2 or 2004 compliant version of the course.
• Course updates: We will supply you with course updates for an agreed period of time.
• Custom changes: We can help by making custom changes to the course to meet your specific learning and development needs.

Contact us to find out more about bringing our course to your learners on your platform.

This is always a difficult question to answer as no two people are the same. There are a number of factors to consider such as level of knowledge, reading speed and in which order the course is completed.

For that reason, our estimates are really quite broad. Analytics shows that learners take an average of 30 minutes to study the course.

v1.0 (May 2019): Original release of Dementia awareness course.

Previously: SCIE published a Dementia e-learning course, released in 2009. This new, 2019 released, Dementia awareness course replaces our 2009 Dementia course.

• The price stated is exclusive of VAT. Customers will be charged VAT at the UK’s standard rate in addition to the price stated.
• On receipt of payment, we’ll issue you, the customer, with course invite(s).
• You, the customer, will be able to issue course invites to your learners. Each learner must have a unquie and working email address, and must sign-up (or log into their existing) MySCIE account to accept the invite. MySCIE accounts are free.
• Course invites must be issued to, and accepted by, learners, within 90 days of purchase, otherwise the invite will expire.
• Learners are required to agree that their course progress is shared with you, the customer, before they can access the course.
• From accepting the invite, the learner will have 90 days access to the course.
• Please check the recommended devices / web browsers for this course, before purchase.
• Please check who this course is for, before purchase.
• An internet connection is required, with the ability to stream video content from YouTube.
• All material in these resources, including text, graphics, photographs, video and audio is copyright of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), unless otherwise stated.
• Although SCIE’s courses have been used over many years with almost no reported problems, SCIE cannot provide technical support for their implementation or to investigate or fix any reported technical problems, nor does it warrant that they are fully compliant with all or any technical platform. Please review the recommended devices / web browsers advice.
• Video scenarios have been produced using actors. This approach has been adopted to protect the identities of individuals whose accounts have been drawn upon to create the scenarios. The professional reflections are provided by experts (i.e. real people) whose professional responsibilities involve ensuring the safeguarding of adults at risk.

SCIE recommends using the latest versions of device operating software and browsers to access our e-learning courses.

The minimum technical requirements are (depending on your setup):

• Chrome: Latest version
• Firefox: Latest version
• Microsoft Edge: Latest version
• Safari: Latest version
• iOS: 10
• Android: Marshmallow (6.0)

This course has been tested on a selection of Apple and Android mobile and tablet devices, running the latest web browsers.

SCIE cannot take responsibility if the course does not work on your particular device or software.

Please note: Usage of Microsoft Internet Explorer, including IE 11, is not recommended.

SCIE used to provide free access to the content of this course. This course is no longer available for free.