About Dementia courses
Our Dementia Academy offers 3 distinct areas of training: in dementia, Alzheimer's, and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Our Dementia MasterClass covers all dementias across prevention, diagnosis and care, and is designed for secondary care clinicians including nurses, old age psychiatry consultants and registrars.
Our new Alzheimer's MasterClass is designed specifically for those who are already dementia specialists and want to deepen their knowledge and specialism. Delegates should come to debate the cutting edge in Alzheimer’s disease and immerse themselves in the literature and then to apply that knowledge practically through quality improvement (QI) projects, research projects or even business cases afterwards. These projects form a core part of the overall course, and delegates must complete all aspects of module 1, the inter-module project, and module 2 to gain their certificate.
Finally, we are trialling a digital MCI course with a built-in quality improvement project suited to a broad spectrum of healthcare practitioners for the first time this year.
| Dementia | Alzheimer's | MCI |
| Nurses | ||
Band 6 MS Support Nurses | Band 8 Consultant/Lead Parkinson's Specialist Nurse | Support, community and specialist nurses |
| Neurologists / geriatricians / old age psychiatrists / registrars / GPs | ||
Secondary care clinicians | Consultant neurologist with specialism in dementia | Secondary care clinicians |
| Other AHPs (bands are a general guide - other bands may apply) | ||
| Band 6 therapists | Newly Qualified | Band 6/7 |
Band 6/7 Neurorehabilitation therapists (SLT, Neurophysio, Dietician, OT) | Neuropsychologists | Neurorehabilitation therapists (SLT, Neurophysio, Dietician, OT) |
Dementia MasterClass
This residential MasterClass, entitled “Practical dementia diagnosis and care”, is for secondary care clinicians, including nurses, old age psychiatry consultants and registrars.
Alzheimer's Advanced MasterClass
For dementia specialists from neurology or old age psychiatry and geriatricians or care of the elderly consultants.
Mild Cognitive Impairment
The webinars would be suitable for people involved in the provision or development of services for those with mild memory impairment. This might include GPs, commissioners, community psychiatric team nurses or managers, later life consultant psychiatrists and trainees, geriatricians and trainees, service users or carers and those involved in third sector organisations.
