Support for Professional and Family Carers
Having the right tools to do the job. It's an expression familiar to us all, but how does it relate to caring?
To be the best carer you can be, may take more than just wanting to do it - you will need knowledge and confidence in having the skills to make positive changes in your life and that of the person you care for.
Guideposts Trust provides free training sessions for carers, designed to offer a variety of ways for carers to gain confidence in their role and to promote their own wellbeing.
For further information about what is happening throughout Warwickshire contact Guideposts Trust on 0845 600 9980 or e-mail afarr@guidepoststrust.org.uk
Resources for "In-House" Training
The Alzheimer's Society produces a range of publications to enable care homes, and other providers, to promote good practice in dementia care.
Guideposts Trust has a new Dementia Care Development Pack to help care staff in care homes and in the community as well as family carers understand and help the older person with dementia. The pack has been produced following a Department of Health research project lasting 3 years. It introduces ways of working within organisations to help staff identify where they need to improve practice and also how to utilise learning more effectively. The bulk of the pack is devoted to specific information about ageing and dementia. The 10 part dementia section covers subjects such as eating and drinking, the enabling environment, activity and occupation.
Jill Conroy
Practice Development Consultant
Guideposts Trust
Two Rivers
Station Road
Witney
Oxford
OX28 4BH
Tel: 01993 700061
Fax:
Email: jconroy@guidepoststrust.org.uk
Dementia UK
Dementia UK Trainingspecialises in the provision of high quality training courses for those who work with older people and people with dementia.
A modular training programme designed by Dementia UK Training in partnership with the DSDC Network and accredited by the Open College Network.
This is a six-month programme which aims to provide learners with an in-depth knowledge and enhance their skills in providing care for people with dementia and their carers.
Please click on Accredited Programme for a full list of certificated programmes available.
For further information you can send an email to: training@dementiauk.org.
