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Course Outline

A Mile in My Shoes is our new Dementia Awareness course.  Originally developed by Coleman Training for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to train their inspectors.  As a result, care services can now align their dementia learning with their regulator.

A Mile in My Shoes is delivered through interactive exercises, videos and group work to  build a deeper understanding of dementia.

People living with dementia may experience the world around them differently.  Therefore, small changes that we make, can make a big difference.  Attendees will learn to walk a mile in the shoes of a person living with dementia and explore ways to support people who are living with these changes. Understanding a person with dementia has to be our main aim.

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On completion delegates will be able to:

• separate the facts from fiction and see each experience as unique to the individual
• identify the impact of neurological impairment on the person
• understand how our memory works and appreciate how our past can shape our future
• identify how dementia can affect the perception of the environment
• recognise that the reality for people living with dementia is likely to be different from our own
• understand how dementia can affect our senses
• appreciate ways of connecting with a person with dementia and to recognise how our own actions can affect the way a person connects with us
• recognise different ways of communicating