{"id":70,"date":"2021-11-04T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dementianursing.co.uk\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:45:18","slug":"courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewidespectrum.co.uk\/?page_id=70","title":{"rendered":"Courses and Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Courses and Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are no public open-enrollment courses at present.
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Course Descriptions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For an overview of all courses taught, please click HERE<\/a>, and for a brief description of course content, please click on the titles below<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Communication and care-giving in dementia: a positive vision”<\/a><\/strong>
– 4-day course … for professionals<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Communication and care-giving in dementia: a positive vision”<\/a><\/strong>
– 4-day course … version for family carers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Lighting DARC’ (Dementia Awareness Reaching Communities)<\/a><\/strong>
– 1-day course<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“How to host an Alzheimer Cafe: for co-ordinators and interviewers”<\/a><\/strong>
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“Educating the Educators: training for using the DVD version of the pre-requisite course”<\/a><\/strong>
– 2-day course<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Previous courses and their commissioners<\/strong>
Our dementia related courses have been taught to over 15,000 people.<\/strong>

Course commissioners have included:<\/strong>
National Alzheimer\u2019s Society (England, Wales, N Ireland)
Alzheimer\u2019s Society (N Ireland)
Alzheimer Society Branch groups
Alzheimer Concern Ealing
Social Services (London area, Berkshire, Surrey, Derbyshire)
\u2018For Dementia\u2019 training, UK
Residential and Nursing Homes
Hospitals (local and district)
Specialist Care Homes and settings for elderly people with learning disabilities, for clergy and religious
Rudolph Steiner Hospital, the Hague
Housing and Care Home Charities
University of Utrecht, Post-graduate Nursing Programme
Aorta Health Care consultants, the Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Previous events (some by invitation):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the 17th September 2021 the Farnborough Alzheimer Cafe re-opened <\/strong>
celebrating its 21st anniversary!<\/strong>
see the pics here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Alzheimer Caf\u00e9 UK Networking Day: 2016”<\/strong>
for those hosting and starting Alzheimer Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Alzheimer Caf\u00e9 UK Networking Day: 2014”<\/strong>
 for those hosting and starting Alzheimer Caf\u00e9s
Guests: Dr. B\u00e8re Miesen, Prof. Viv Bennett, Sinead Grennan, Maggie Bennett
Read the TAD Newsletter on the 2014 AC Networking day<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
Date: 11 June, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 “10 anniversary Alzheimer Caf\u00e9 UK conference”<\/strong>
Guests: Dr. B\u00e8re Miesen, Drs. Marco Blom (Director- Alzheimer Nederland)
Date: May 14th, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gemma teaching the course ‘How to host an Alzheimer Cafe’ in Dublin, January 2015.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courses and Events: There are no public open-enrollment courses at present. Course Descriptions For an overview of all courses taught, please click HERE, and for a brief description of course content, please click on the titles below “Communication and care-giving in dementia: a positive vision”– 4-day course … for professionals “Communication and care-giving in dementia: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":234,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewidespectrum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewidespectrum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewidespectrum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewidespectrum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewidespectrum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/thewidespectrum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/thewidespectrum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/675"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewidespectrum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewidespectrum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}