Helen Scott
Helen is an Independent Nurse Lecturer specialising in palliative and end-of-life care and dementia. She is a Visiting Lecturer for St Christopher’s Hospice, London, and an Associate Trainer for Dementia…
Dementia training days
Palliative Care for People with Advanced Dementia
Event overview
- 21 Jan, 2027
- Three separate training days
- 9.30am-4.15pm
- £120 plus VAT per day
- Online
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As a health or social care professional supporting people at the end of life, do you feel confident and competent to support and care for people with advanced dementia and their carers?
As part of our learning programme here at St Christopher’s CARE to upskill clinicians and colleagues working in all settings to better understand and support the growing number of people with dementia at the end of life, we’ve created three training days looking at various topics associated with the end of life for people living with advanced dementia and their carers.
To meet the needs of people with busy working schedules and different areas of interest and expertise, this has been designed to be a flexible course – learners may complete all three days, any two, or just the one that most suits their needs.
What will I learn?
Thursday 21st January 2027 (virtual)
Communicating with people living with advanced dementia and their loved ones
- Understand the different ways in which individuals with dementia communicate
- Understand communication barriers and factors that can affect communication in a negative way
- Be aware that non-verbal communication is an essential component of communication for people living with dementia
What will I learn?
Next date tbc
Common Symptoms in People Living with Advanced Dementia
- Dementia: pathophysiology, aetiology and key symptoms
- How to support people displaying distressed and adaptive behaviours
- How to recognise and managing pain in people living with dementia
- How to recognise delirium in people living with dementia
- Discuss dementia case scenarios
What will I learn?
Next date tbc
Key palliative care issues relating to the people with advance dementia and their carers
This study day will highlight some of the important palliative care issues relating to people with advanced dementia and their loved ones. The goals of the day are to help learners:
- Be more familiar with the signs and symptoms that dementia is progressing and of the last 6-12 months of life
- Understand the importance of end-of-life planning to prevent crisis admissions to the hospital
- Recognise and address ways in which dementia may impact on nutritional intake
- Be more aware of how people with advanced dementia process and cope with grief and loss and how best to support them and their families talk about grief and loss
- Understand that services can be developed to support people with advanced dementia stay at home for as long as possible
- Know the stressors associated with caring for someone with dementia at the end of life
This course is pitched at an intermediate level and is suitable for nurses, doctors, social workers, occupational therapists, paramedics, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists.
Shafika Banoo
Shafika currently works at St Christopher’s Hospice as a clinical fellow in the IPU. Shafika previously worked in India as a consultant in the city of Chennai in India for…
Professor Graham Stokes
Graham Stokes is Director of Dementia Care Services at HC-One and Honorary Visiting Professor of Person-Centred Dementia Care at the University of Bradford. Previously he was a Consultant in the…
Dr Monica Crugel
Dr Monica Crugel has more than 20 years’ experience in psychiatry and specialises in the care of older adults and people with dementia. She was a research fellow in a…
Dr Jemima Collins
Dr Jemima Collins is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Care of Older People at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests are in ageing populations with chronic pain. She…
Tracey Carter
Tracey Carter is an Registered Mental Nurse with over 35 years experience within the mental health arena, the last 15 years having been specifically within the Dementia Care field. Tracey…
Maria Aparicio
Maria has worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care with St Christopher’s Hospice in the Community team in 2018. For two years she joined the St Christopher’s Centre…
Mary Hodgson, PhD.
Mary is Director of Inclusion & Social Innovation at St Christopher’s where she is responsible for our community action, lived experience working and tackling inequalities work to create greater health…
Annette Banks
Annette, Dementia Care Manager at HC-One, is a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), who works in the care sector. Her HC-One name badge says ‘Share a Smile’ because she says a…
Katy Jenks
Katy, Head of Specialist Services at HC-One, is a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) and chose to work in the care sector because it is person-centred, and it has always been important…
Isabelle Latham
Dr Isabelle Latham is Researcher-in-Residence for Hallmark Care Homes and honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Association for Dementia Studies at the University of Worcester. Isabelle is the UK’s first…
Wilco Achterberg
Wilco is a professor in care for older persons, with research mainly based in nursing homes. He specifically focusses on pain in neurodegenerative diseases. Wilco is dedicated to improve clinical…
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