Educational Opportunities related to Dementia
The Many Faces of Dementia – free online course
Dementia is one of the foremost priorities in global health and is estimated to affect over 44 million people worldwide. This has a huge impact on individuals and on society, so improvements in understanding, care and treatments are desperately needed.
In this free online course you’ll discover some of the key issues in dementia care and research by exploring four less common forms of dementia through the eyes of people affected by the condition, and world-leading experts at UCL. We’ll show how research into the signs, stages, symptoms and causes of less common forms can bring us closer to the aim of defeating dementia.
2 hours per week. Starts 14 March 2016
More details from https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/faces-of-dementia
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Improving Healthcare through Clinical Research, free online course, University of Leeds
Find out how medical treatments are discovered, tested and evaluated, to improve healthcare for all.
Everything we do in healthcare – every tablet that’s prescribed, every treatment that’s given and every test that’s performed – has to be first discovered and then thoroughly evaluated before it can be put into practice. This course is designed for anyone who wants to know more about modern healthcare, and the role of clinical research and discovery within it.
No previous knowledge is needed to take this 4 week course.
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Stand By Me – A free e-learning course in Dementia for all healthcare staff.
A new online resource to improve communication and care for people living with dementia was launched at the University of Worcester. A trailer for the e-learning course is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SPC7w3gVB0
More information from http://www.worcester.ac.uk/discover/9981.html