Best Practice Updates
The Best Practice in Dementia Care Learning Programme has experienced its biggest update to date. Whether you are a current Facilitator or looking to implement the Best Practice Programme in your organisation, the changes will bring a plethora of enhancements for you.
What is the Best Practice Programme?
The Best Practice Programme has been designed to enhance the culture of dementia and ageing care within organisations. It does this through using evidence-based information, translated into practical and easy to understand learning tools for staff.
Find out more about the Best Practice Programme from Dave, our Senior Dementia Consultant at DSDC:
What are the changes?
The core and purpose of the training remains the same, however we have updated the training to include:
A significant update to the knowledge content provided to facilitators through the Facilitators Training. The updates will encourage Facilitators to truly reflect on practice and encourage them to challenge perceptions.
Updates to training content both for Facilitators and Participants through additional course content, including more voices of people with lived experience.
A revalidation for Facilitators, to ensure the quality of our training remains at the highest level and filters through to Participants and ultimately people living with a dementia and their care partners.
Here’s Dave to tell you a bit more about the changes:
What impact can the Best Practice course make?
Implementing the Best Practice programme in your organisation can make improvements to the culture of care, ensuring that people living with a dementia are supported in a way that is appropriate for them. It can improve quality of life for people living with a dementia, and their care partners. For staff, they receive the appropriate training, knowledge and skills that they need to support them in their role, to feel confident, which research has shown can impact on their on wellbeing.
Listen to Dave tell you a bit more about it:
Want to find out more about the programme or chat through some of the changes? Not a problem, contact the team at dementia@stir.ac.uk
