Person-Centered Dementia Care Training Course

Name: Advanced Person-Centered Dementia Care Training Course
Availability: InStock

Apply person-centered assessment, communication, behavior support, family partnership, and coordinated dementia-care practices.

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Casablanca, Tbilisi, Seoul, Lisbon, Tashkent, Dubai and more
Next session: 2 – 6 November 2026, Casablanca
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Advanced Person-Centered Dementia Care Training Course is a one-week advanced course for dementia-care nurses, care coordinators, residential-care supervisors, allied health professionals, social-care practitioners, and family-support leads who leave with a Person-Centered Dementia Care Portfolio. Participants connect cognitive and functional profiles, life stories, communication, unmet-needs analysis, meaningful activity, daily living, family partnership, transitions, advance planning, workforce wellbeing, and quality review. Agile Leaders Training Center presents dementia care through personhood, evidence, and coordinated practice.

Who Should Attend

Care functions responsible for person-centered assessment, daily support, and care-plan review
Nursing functions responsible for health observation, medication support, pain, nutrition, and safety
Therapy functions responsible for cognition, communication, mobility, activity, and environmental adaptation
Coordination functions responsible for family partnership, referrals, transitions, and continuity
Service leadership functions responsible for workforce support, safeguarding, quality, and improvement

The course assumes participants already support people living with dementia and leaves out initial professional qualification, prescribing, formal diagnosis, and general elderly-care operations.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that provide or coordinate dementia-specific care across the disease course.

Memory services and community dementia teams
Residential, nursing, and long-term-care organizations
Hospital, rehabilitation, and palliative-care services
Home-care and social-care providers
Family support, care navigation, and voluntary-sector services

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Build person-centered cognitive and functional profiles
Apply adapted communication and meaningful engagement methods
Analyze behavior changes through unmet-needs evidence
Use daily-living, nutrition, mobility, and safety supports
Evaluate family partnership, transitions, and advance planning
Prioritize workforce wellbeing and care-quality improvements

Course Agenda

Day 1: Person-Centered Assessment and Planning

Personhood and Life Story Profile
Cognitive and Functional Observation Map
Strengths, Preferences, and Routine Register
Collaborative Dementia Care Plan
Dynamic Care Review Schedule

Day 2: Communication and Meaningful Engagement

Adapted Dementia Communication Guide
Nonverbal Cue Observation Tool
Validation and Reassurance Response Method
Meaningful Activity Matching Matrix
Supportive Environment Review Checklist

Day 3: Behavior, Health, and Daily Living

Unmet-Needs Behavior Analysis
Structured Pain Observation Tool
Nutrition and Hydration Support Plan
Mobility and Falls Adaptation Map
Medication and Health-Change Escalation Log

Day 4: Families, Transitions, and Quality

Family Partnership and Support Map
Dementia Care Navigation Pathway
Care Transition Handover Record
Advance Statement Review Framework
Dementia Care Quality Scorecard

Day 5: Dementia Care Practice

Exercise: Build a Person-Centered Profile
Exercise: Adapt a Communication Encounter
Exercise: Analyze a Behavior Change
Exercise: Plan a Care Transition
Capstone Exercise: Person-Centered Dementia Care Portfolio

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities from memory services, residential care, hospitals, rehabilitation, home care, and community support.

Suggested activity: create a profile linking life story, strengths, preferences, cognition, function, routines, and care priorities.
Suggested activity: adapt communication and meaningful activity to a person's abilities, cues, and emotional experience.
Suggested activity: investigate a behavior change using pain, health, environment, communication, and unmet-needs evidence.
Suggested activity: assemble a portfolio linking care plans, family partnership, transitions, workforce support, and quality actions.

FAQs

Who suits person-centered dementia care training, and what does it assume?

Person-centered dementia care training suits experienced care, nursing, therapy, coordination, social-care, and service-leadership functions. It assumes current involvement in dementia support rather than introductory elderly-care operations.

How does person-centered dementia care differ from general elderly-care management training?

Person-centered dementia care focuses on cognitive change, communication, behavior, life story, meaningful engagement, family partnership, transitions, and dementia-specific quality. General elderly-care management covers wider resident operations, staffing, safety, and service administration.

How should dementia-related behavior changes be assessed?

Behavior changes should be treated as communication and investigated for pain, illness, medication effects, environment, unmet needs, fear, fatigue, sensory barriers, and interaction patterns before support is adjusted.

Why are life stories important in dementia care?

Life stories help care teams recognize identity, relationships, routines, preferences, abilities, and sources of meaning. They support individualized communication, activity, reassurance, and care planning as cognition and function change.

How can dementia care support family partners?

Dementia care can involve chosen family partners in decisions, education, observation, planning, transitions, and review while preserving the person's voice, privacy, rights, and preferences. Support also includes caregiver wellbeing and access to help.

Conclusion

The course integrates assessment, communication, engagement, behavior support, daily living, family partnership, transitions, and quality review. Participants take back a Person-Centered Dementia Care Portfolio. The portfolio changes how their teams interpret needs, coordinate support, involve families, protect continuity, and improve dementia-specific care.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewAdvanced Person-Centered Dementia Care Training Course is a one-week advanced course for dementia-care nurses, care coordinators, residential-care supervisors, allied health professionals, social-care practitioners, and family-support leads who leave with a Person-Centered Dementia Care Portfolio. Participants connect cognitive and functional prof…

Are training dates available?

Yes. Available dates and destinations are listed in the course dates section on this page.

How can I register?

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Person-Centered Dementia Care Training Course