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Admiral Nurse Dementia Helpline
Call or email our Dementia Helpline/Alzheimer's Helpline for reassuring and practical advice from our specialist team of Admiral Nurses.
New free online course for family carers of people living with dementia and health and social care professionals.
We spoke to Consultant Admiral Nurse, Sharron Tolman, around this new free online course for family carers of people living with dementia and health and social care professionals.
The course has been developed by Newcastle University and led by Dame Professor Louise Robinson. It launched this week.
We understand families facing dementia can often feel ill-equipped to manage the complexities of the condition. It can be particularly emotionally and physically taxing during the end of life stage of dementia, which is what this course seeks to address. Through videos, quizzes and articles as well as a forum to share views and experience, family carers and health and social care professionals now have a platform to build up confidence in this area.
The course will help learners to:
As a dementia specialist Admiral Nurse, I was able to share my experience in supporting families and people with advanced dementia at end of life, which then informed the course content. It was a truly collaborative effort with involvement from a range of other health and social care professionals as well as family carers.
The course runs over three weeks, and completing each week will take around three hours. We recognise that family carers as well as health and social care professionals have extremely demanding schedules. This is why the course can be completed in bite-sized chunks, and you can save your progress so you can easily pick up where you left off.
You can sign up now and view our trailer which explains more. The course will be open for sign up for 6 weeks. Once signed up, you have access to the course for 5 weeks.
*An example of a word cloud within the course – an interactive step which encourages carers to share their thoughts and feelings
Call or email our Dementia Helpline/Alzheimer's Helpline for reassuring and practical advice from our specialist team of Admiral Nurses.
Whether you have a question that needs an immediate answer or need emotional support when life feels overwhelming, these are the ways our dementia specialist Admiral Nurses can support you.