Main description:

The Dementia Care Training Library is a unique modular suite of person-centred, dementia-specific content designed to provide everything required for professionals working in relevant care services to deliver authoritative in-house training. Once users have delivered the two core introductory modules contained within the Starter Pack binder, they can expand the resource by adding any or all of twelve further DCTL modules (Modules 3-14), to be published regularly throughout 2022, 2023 and 2024. The optional modules are provided as loose-leaf pages to be added to the master binder. All Dementia Care Training Library materials take an Action Learning approach, providing a balance of information and practice-based activities that allow learners to reflect on and apply new knowledge in real time as a staff team, and which ultimately lead to changes in practice in the care environment.

Contents:

Introduction
SESSION 1: THE PERSON-CENTRED APPROACH TO EATING AND DRINKING WELL
1. What is eating and drinking well?; 2. Applying the person-centred approach to eating and drinking; 3. Understanding why the nutritional needs of people with dementia may be different to the general population; 4. A healthy lifestyle
SESSION 2: AN ACTIVITY-BASED APPROACH TO EATING AND DRINKING WELL
5. Exploring an activity-based approach to eating and drinking; 6. Enhancing engagement and independence to aid eating and drinking; 7. Sharing a meal; 8. Adapting an activity
SESSION 3: SUPPORTING THE PERSON WITH DEMENTIA TO EAT AND DRINK WELL
9. Anticipating the health needs of a person with dementia related to eating and drinking; 10. Creating positive mealtime experiences to reduce the risk of malnutrition and dehydration; 11. Food and fluid monitoring
SESSION 4: INVOLVING OTHERS IN ENABLING PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA TO EAT AND DRINK WELL
12. Specialist support for people with dementia to eat and drink well; 13. Eating and drinking problems; 14. Evaluation and close
Appendices and Worksheets