Dementia Course
What will I learn?
Improve your skills in looking after older people with our complete Dementia Course, made for healthcare workers in Zambia. Get useful skills in knowing the different kinds of dementia, signs, and how it gets worse. Learn about the right foods to give, good ways to talk to patients, and how to put care plans in place. Find out how to handle confusion and restlessness, check if the care is working well, and make surroundings that help patients feel good. Get better at working with other healthcare staff and set goals that you can actually reach to keep getting better. Join now to change how you look after people with dementia.
Apoia's Unique Offerings
Develop your skills
Enhance your practical skills listed below
Know the right foods: Make sure dementia patients are eating well for their health.
Make care plans: Create and change care plans that are just right for each person.
Improve communication: Use words and actions to talk to patients in a better way.
Handle restlessness: Use ways to calm patients down and keep to a routine to lessen confusion.
Make surroundings personal: Design calm places that fit what each person needs.
Suggested summary
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours
Before starting, you can change the chapters and workload.
- Choose which chapter to start with
- Add or remove chapters
- Increase or decrease the course workload
Examples of chapters you can add
You will be able to generate more chapters similar to the examples below
This is a free course aimed at personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but provides practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.