James WhiteheadIT Manager (SheffCare) Limited

Dementia Awareness Link

Emotional transfer To understand the carers stress To create empathy and understanding

Audio and Visual links Using Video and Visuals helps the transfer

Roleplay Using Role play to underpin knowledge

transfer.

In Britain around 700,000 people suffer from dementia, a condition in which so much of the brain has died that function is severely impaired.

How many people do you know who are forgetful, do they have Dementia?

Do you know the signs? How do you deal with people with

Dementia?

Working in small group 10 mins find a video on YouTube ‘Dementia Signs Symptoms’

Create a simple e-learning package for a hairdresser who has to deal with a Dementia suffer for the first time.

Search on YouTube for ‘That's amore Dean Martin’

In a small group think about how this could help engage with someone with Dementia.

Ivy Bean, who is 104 years old, is the UK's oldest Tweeter on the social networking site, Twitter http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_sty

le/health/article6879663.ece

As a whole group Are you more aware of Dementia How we can reduce the risks

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