About the Dementia programme
The elearning programme in Dementia Care has been designed to enhance the training and education of the health and social care workforce. It focuses on the essential knowledge and skills needed to support and enable people living with dementia and their family carers to live as well as possible, wherever they live.
The programme will also be of interest to those responsible for training and educating the health and social care workforce. It can be used in a variety of ways including as part of induction; to structure reflective practice with individual staff and teams; for self-paced learning; and to revisit as a form of refresher training.
The programme directly addresses the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia 2020 by covering all aspects of care for people living with dementia and their family members, from prevention and risk reduction to diagnosis through to bereavement. It emphasises the importance of adopting the perspective and experience of those directly affected by dementia – people living with dementia and their family and friends – and ensuring effective support is provided to health and social care professionals charged with providing compassionate, co-ordinated, evidence-based person-centred dementia care.
More information
The programme is a resource to help with implementation of the following:
- NICE guideline 97. Dementia: assessment, management and support for people living with dementia and their carers (NICE, 2018)
- The Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia 2020 (Department of Health, 2015)
- The Dementia Training Standards Framework (Department of Health, 2018)
The programme is consistent with relevant legislation, including that regarding human rights such as the:
- Equality Act (2010)
- Carers Act (2014)
- Mental Capacity Act (2005)
The programme is aligned with the Dementia Action Alliance Dementia Statements.
The programme draws on a rich and diverse evidence base including personal testimony – the voice of the person living with dementia and their family carers – national and international care and services research, and professional and clinical best practice. The content reinforces the importance of dementia being everyone’s business and the importance of having a workforce that is both well-informed and supported to provide high quality, compassionate care.
Programme structure
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Module 1
Introduction to living with DementiaModule 1
This module provides an introduction to living with dementia. The sessions explore the various types of dementia, influences on living with dementia plus draws on key principles in person-centred dementia care. It contains two elearning sessions:
- Dementia awareness
- Person-centred dementia care
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Module 2
Enabling people to live well with DementiaModule 2
This module describes how the health and social care workforce can enable people to live well with dementia, covering a range of topics across a range of settings, in the context of diverse communities and current legislation. It contains 12 elearning sessions:
- Dementia identification, assessment and diagnosis
- Dementia risk, reduction and prevention
- Communication, interaction and behaviour in dementia care
- Health and well-being in dementia care
- Pharmacological interventions in dementia care
- Living well with dementia and promoting independence
- Families and carers as partners in dementia care
- Equality, diversity and inclusion in dementia care
- Law, ethics and safeguarding in dementia care
- End of life dementia care
- Research and evidence-based practice in dementia
- Leadership in transforming dementia care
Programme authors
The sessions have been written by experts by experience (people living with dementia and their family carers) working in collaboration with a multi-professional team with backgrounds in education, gerontology, nursing, occupational therapy, patient and public involvement, pharmacy, psychology and speech and language therapy.
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Multi-professional team
Multi-professional team
- Dr Ana Barbosa, Dementia Care Consultant and Trainer, Centre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford
- Lindsey Collins, Senior Dementia Care Consultant and Trainer, Centre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford
- Prof Murna Downs, Professor in Dementia Studies, Centre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford
- Dr Kathryn Lord, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford
- Clare Mason, Dementia Care Trainer and Experts by Experience (Patient and Public Involvement) Lead, Centre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford
- Prof Gail Mountain, Professor in Applied Dementia Research and Director, Centre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford
- Prof Jan Oyebode, Professor in Dementia Care, Centre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford
- Dr Sahdia Parveen, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford
- Dr Catherine Powell, Senior Research Fellow, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of Bradford
- Danielle Woods, Adult Nurse Lecturer, School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership, University of Bradford
- Hadar Zaman, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, University of Bradford
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Experts by experience
Experts by experience
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Consulted with:
Consulted with:
- Andrea Hudson and team at Westwood Hospital, Bradford
- Jane Chatterjee, St Gemma’s Academic Unit of Palliative Care
Meet the team
Professor Murna Downs
Professor of Dementia Studies, Centre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford
Tracy Watkins
Lead Learning Designer, HEE elearning for healthcare
Steven Gibbons
Lead Learning Designer, HEE elearning for healthcare
Karen Walker
Learning Designer, HEE elearning for healthcare
How to access
Available to all
The Dementia programme is freely available to access here.
Please note your progress and completion of sessions will not be recorded and you will not be able to generate a record of completion. If you require evidence of learning, please register and then log in to access this programme on the elfh Hub.
If you already have an account with elfh, then you can enrol on to the Dementia programme by logging in to the elfh Hub, selecting My Account > Enrolment and selecting the programme. You can then access the programme immediately in the My elearning section.
To view the Dementia programme, select the View button below. If you already have an account with elfh, you will also be able to login and enrol on the programme from the View button.
NHS healthcare staff in England
The Dementia programme is also available to NHS healthcare staff via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). Accessing this elearning via ESR means that your completions will transfer with you throughout your NHS career.
Further details are available here.
Not an NHS organisation?
If you are not an NHS health or care organisation and therefore do not qualify for free access elfh Hub, you may be able to access the service by creating an OpenAthens account.
To check whether or not you qualify for free access via OpenAthens, you can view the eligibility criteria and register on the ‘OpenAthens’ portal.
Care home or hospice staff
To register for the Dementia programme, select the ‘Register’ button, above. Select the option ‘I am a care home or hospice worker’ then enter your care home / hospice name or postcode and select it from the options available in the drop down list. Finally enter your care home / hospice registration code and select ‘Register’. You may need to see your employer to get this code.
If your employer does not have a code, then they need to contact the elfh Support Team. The Support Team can either give the employer the registration code or arrange a bulk upload of all staff.
Social care professionals
Access to elfh content is available to all social care professionals in England whose employers are registered with the Skills for Care National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC). Every employer providing NMDS-SC workforce information to Skills for Care has been given a user registration code for their staff. This code enables you to self-register for access to Dementia. Please contact your employer for more details about the registration code. For information about registering your organisation with the NMDS-SC your employer should access www.nmds-sc-online.org.uk or contact the Skills for Care Support Service on 0845 8730129.
If you have a registration code, you can register by clicking here.
Registering large numbers of users
If you are a HR, IT or Practice Manager and would like to register and enrol large numbers of staff within your organisation for access onto the Dementia programme, please contact elfh directly.
Organisations wishing to use their own LMS
For HR departments wanting to know more about gaining access to courses using an existing Learning Management System please contact elfh directly to express interest.
How to license
In the event that you do not qualify for free access to the Dementia programme, you are able to license access through eIntegrity, a community-interest company established for this purpose.
You can check whether or not you qualify for free access by clicking on the ‘Register’ button above.
For more information on the licensing options available for the Dementia programme, please visit the eIntegrity website.
More information
Please select the following link for more information on how to use the elfh Hub.