Dementia Informed

Designed for:  All frontline staff who work with service users

Learning Outcomes:

• Have a baseline knowledge about dementia
• Identify skills used when working with people with dementia
• Establish a plan for future learning needs in relation to dementia

Evaluation methods:

• Staff learning forms

Links to:

       Policy & Legislation:

• Adult Support & Protection policy and legislation
• Right’s and Safety Policy
• End of Life Care Policy

• National Care Standards
• SSSC – CPD/PRTL Requirements and Codes of Practice
• Promoting Excellence: A Framework for all health and social services staff working with people with dementia, their families and carers
• Scotland’s National Dementia Strategy 2010
• Standards for Care for Dementia in Scotland

      CLF:

• Managing relationships: empowering people

their carers; working in partnership;

• Managing self: professional autonomy; lifelong learning; Awareness of wider context.