• Continuing professional development (CPD)

Leadership and innovation in dementia care

CPD Level 7
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Overview

Overview

This credit-bearing continuing professional development course will ensure you appreciate a critical understanding of how to support people living with dementia to live well, upholding their dignity, sense of self, human rights, and independence.

This will include acquiring skills in supporting staff to provide good quality care for people living with dementia and their families (e.g. educational interventions), and being an innovative leader in dementia care services by understanding leadership and management styles.

Designing, managing and improving dementia-specific services in primary, secondary and tertiary care is a key aim of this course. This is done with the inclusion of key stakeholders (people living with dementia, their families and professional care staff views) and the use of assistive technologies and digital innovations; thereby developing and implementing change in dementia care.

Course requirements: See below

Cost and funding: This fee covers the full course cost.

  • Sept 23 - Aug 25 fees: £900
  • Sept 25 - Aug 26 fees: TBC

Credits: 20

Assessment method: Practical

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Study dates and times

Study dates and times

This course is taught on day release, select a start date to see the study days:

At the end of this module, you will be able to:

  1. Critically evaluate the relevant research evidence, contemporary theory and literature underpinning person-centred assessment and care planning.
  2. Comprehend and develop a critical response to service design and delivery, identifying and formulating transformative approaches in dementia services and practice.
  3. Develop an innovative approach to involving people with dementia, their families and practitioners/professionals in policy and service development.
  4. Use critical self-reflection to analyse and appraise one's own actions in dementia practice, identifying and addressing professional and personal developmental needs.
  5. Critically evaluate and feedback on the skills of others (e.g. care and support staff working with people with dementia and their families), identifying and addressing gaps in knowledge (education) and championing good quality dementia care.
  6. Compare and contrast strategic leadership and management styles, and critically evaluate their effectiveness and integration within the national and global context of dementia care services.
Entry requirements

Entry requirements

We look for students who show enthusiasm and a passion for the subject through previous study or professional experience.

You should have an honours degree (2:2 or above) from a UK university or equivalent in a related subject (such as nursing, occupational therapy, social work, psychology, or similar) and relevant work experience (such as health, social, independent, or voluntary sector care). Or you may be planning a career working in or leading dementia care services.

If you do not have a 2.2 Honours degree or international equivalent in a related subject, then we may offer you a place based on relevant work experience and training in dementia care. 

All applications are considered individually.

If you have any questions about the relevance of your qualifications or experience please contact the course leader shown in the teaching staff.

Teaching staff

Teaching staff

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Dr Laura Cole

Dr Laura Cole is a Senior Lecturer and Course Lead for the MSc in Dementia Studies: Contemporary Approaches to Practice. She is also Co-Lead for the DEfIN-YD Project (engaging people living with young onset dementia in research).

She has a background in psychology and has worked with older people living with cognitive problems and dementia for over twenty years in various clinical, care and research settings.

Laura was co-applicant for an Alzheimer’s Society-funded study exploring the views and experiences of people living with dementia and their family carers on residential respite services. Her previous dementia care research investigated the timing of a move to a care home, continence management (or problems using the toilet) for people living at home and the effectiveness of reminiscence art groups for people living in care homes.

Laura is President Elect and Honorary Treasurer of the Geriatric and Gerontology section at the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the editorial board for Dementia: Journal of International Social Research and Practice. She is also a member of HEDN (Higher Education for Dementia Network) and INTERDEM (a pan-European network of dementia care researchers).

Dr Laura Cole is a Senior Lecturer and Course Lead for the MSc in Dementia Studies: Contemporary Approaches to Practice. She is also Co-Lead for the DEfIN-YD Project (engaging people living with young onset dementia in research).

She has a background in psychology and has worked with older people living with cognitive problems and dementia for over twenty years in various clinical, care and research settings.

Laura was co-applicant for an Alzheimer’s Society-funded study exploring the views and experiences of people living with dementia and their family carers on residential respite services. Her previous dementia care research investigated the timing of a move to a care home, continence management (or problems using the toilet) for people living at home and the effectiveness of reminiscence art groups for people living in care homes.

Laura is President Elect and Honorary Treasurer of the Geriatric and Gerontology section at the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the editorial board for Dementia: Journal of International Social Research and Practice. She is also a member of HEDN (Higher Education for Dementia Network) and INTERDEM (a pan-European network of dementia care researchers).

Study and career progression

Study and career progression

This course be taken as a standalone module or the credits can be used towards the following courses:

  • MSc Dementia Studies: Contemporary Approaches to Practice
  • PgCert Dementia Studies: Contemporary Approaches to Practice
  • PgDip Dementia Studies: Contemporary Approaches to Practice
How to apply

How to apply

We recommend your application is submitted to the University at least two weeks prior to the start of the course. 

After your application is accepted and you have been offered a place on the course, you will be sent information about how to enrol. You must complete enrolment before your course starts.

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Contact us

For more information about our range of dementia courses, please contact Laura Cole.