Dementia Awareness QCF Certificate Level 3

Course Delivery:

Month 1: Induction and enrolment
Month 2: Unit 1 – ‘Understanding Dementia’
Month 3: Unit 2 – ‘Understanding Person-Centred Dementia Care’
Month 4: Unit 3 – ‘Understanding Challenging Behaviour in the Context of Dementia’
Month 5: Unit 4 - ‘Applying a Person-Centred approach to Dementia Care’
Month 6: Completion workshop

The course is delivered in the form of taught sessions over 12 months and will involve a significant amount of hands on activity with additional work outside the sessions to develop content and materials for completion of the course.

Students will be expected to complete a workbook at the end of each session which will be assessed by a suitably qualified tutor from the health & social care team.

To achieve the qualification, students must achieve at least 21 credits – 15 of which must come from the four mandatory units and the remaining six from the optional units. The topics covered by the units are wide-ranging and include:

• Understand the process and experience of dementia.
• Enable rights and choices of individuals with dementia whilst minimising risks.
• Understand and enable interaction & communication with individuals with dementia.
• Equality, diversity and inclusion in dementia care practice.