Special Wellspring - Advanced Managerial Training in the Person-Centred Care of People with Dementia

Offered worldwide by distance learning. We include all teaching materials, including specially written texts and articles by experts. We are also able to suggest further reading, although our own materials are all you need to complete the course.

Any questions you may have will be dealt with straight away - by post, telephone or e-mail.

The learner must take 8 modules in all for the Special Wellspring Certificate.

Module One (Compulsory)
The brain and its pathology in dementia
The effects of the dementias
Dementia cause theory

(If you have recently taken our Learning Matters course, another module may be substituted for Module One. It is compulsory to all others, because this is a fast-changing field.)

Module Two (Optional)
Working on identity - what it is, what it does
The needs of people with dementia

Module Three (Optional)
Person-centred working - how it works and how it doesn?t
Barriers to person-centred working
The Person-Centred Organisation and how to achieve it

Module Four (Optional)
Therapies (past, present and future)

Sonas, Reality Orientation, Snoezellen, Cognitive and other Behavioural Therapies, Validation, Mnemosthene

Module Five (Optional)

Introduction to meaningful activities
Appropriate assistance
Spectator sports

Module Six (Optional)
Issues around food for people with dementia (not food hygiene!)
Psychology of food
Vegetarian, vegan and special diets, religious observance

Module Seven (Optional)
Drugs - anti-psychotics, tranquillisers, dementia treatments
The future

Module Eight (Optional)
Ethical issues in dementia - locked doors, drug compliance, informed consent, end of life issues (living wills, DNRs etc)

Module Nine (Optional)
Equality and prejudice

Module Ten (Optional)
Communication with people with dementia
Verbal and non-verbal
Behavior as a communication tool
Kinesics (body language)
The laugh index

Module Eleven (Optional)
Behavior in dementia
Where it comes from and why
Causes and triggers
Interventions and solutions

Module Twelve (Optional)
Eriksson's Life Stages - approaching end of life and ego identity

Module Thirteen (Optional)
Grief, loss & coming to terms

Module Fourteen (Optional)
Personal supervision of staff

Module Fifteen (Optional)
Introduction to Dementia Care Mapping (non-qualification)

Module Sixteen (Optional)
Entrainment - changing moods in clients and self, using music

Module Seventeen (Optional)
Home assessments of people with dementia
Assessments by activity

Module Eighteen (Optional)
Supporting Family Carers
Individual support
Group support
Carers education

Module Nineteen (Optional)
Training for trainers

Module Twenty (Optional)
Introduction to spirituality in people with dementia