8 x half day workshops entitled:
1. The biology of dementia
2. Different types of dementia
3. Early onset dementia
4. Understanding behaviour
5. Experiences of dementia
6. Negative influences
7. Family, friends and carers
8. National and local drivers

Plus additional sessions to launch the module, the assessment and facilitate discussion related to the assessment

A 2,500 word reflective account of how the course and its content have raised your awareness of dementia and how this might affect you and your approach in the future

Additional Assessment Details (including formative feedback / assessment):
Draft work will be reviewed during tutorials or electronically to guide the student in preparing their assignment

Contact hours: (32)
24 hours workshops (8 x 3)
6 hours Interactive lecturers
2 hours Tutorials

Independent Study Hours: (118)
50 hours Locating, retrieving, reading relevant materials
50 hours Preparing assignment
18 hours Visits (practice, pressure groups, voluntary sector, private sector)

Library and IT services
TV and video/DVD player
CDROM
Internet
Laptop/projector
Blackboard

Kitwood, T.M. (1997) Dementia Reconsidered: the person comes first. Buckingham: Open University Press
Mattson-Porth, C (Ed.) (2007) Essentials of pathophysiology. Concepts of altered health states (2nd Ed.) Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Nolan, M., Lundh, U., Grant, G. & Keady, J. (2003) Partnerships in family care: understanding the caregiving career, Maidenhead: Open University Press
Stokes, G. (2000) Challenging behaviour in dementia: a person-centred approach. Bicester: Winslow Press