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…
Palliative Care for People with Advanced Dementia
Event overview
- 30 Nov, 2023 , 07 Dec, 2023 , 01 Feb, 2024
- Three separate study days
- 9.30am-4.15pm
- £66 per day with funding from The Bartholomew Trust (50% off usual price)
- All prices include VAT
- Varies - see session details
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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 a whole new 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 this three-day course.
And, 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. That means learners may complete all three days, any two, or just the one that most suits their needs.
You can choose to attend all 3 days or whichever one suits your needs.
What will I learn?
New dates to be released soon
Day One Topic: 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?
Thursday 7 December 2023 (virtual)
Day Two Topic: Key palliative care issues relating to people with advanced dementia and their carers
This study day – the second in our three-part palliative care and dementia series – 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.
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…
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…
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…
Helen King
Helen is a Consultant Nurse at St Christopher’s. Helen joined St Christopher’s in 2019 to work on embedding the Age Attuned Palliative Care project – this work continued during the…
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…
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…
What will I learn?
Thursday 30 November 2023 (in person at CARE) and Thursday 1 February 2024 (virtual)
Day Three Topic: 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
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.
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Why our education programme?
We have a well-established programme of high quality, cutting-edge, specialist palliative care education, designed for those working in the UK and internationally.
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Education is at the heart of St Christopher’s mission to promote and provide hospice care of the highest standards.
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