Living well with dementia - Living well with dementia
Lifelong learning course
Scientific coordinator: Erika Borella
Period: 3 December 2021
Aims:
MAIN:
To provide the basic theoretical knowledge and the operational and technical tools needed to run groups for people with dementia (including early-onset dementia) following the programme “Living well with dementia”. The aim is to help people with a diagnosis of dementia speak more openly about their diagnosis, while also offering a supportive and safe space in which to build the resources needed to cope with their new reality; to explore in greater depth the role played by the psychosocial support group in facilitating adjustment to a dementia diagnosis and in undertaking the most appropriate pathways to maintain and ensure a good quality of life.
FURTHER
To give prospective facilitators of the programme “Living well with dementia” the opportunity to explore the emotional and social aspects that facilitate or hinder facilitation work.
Target participants: The course is aimed at psychologists already working in CDCDs or in other private/affiliated facilities, as well as psychologists in training (including psychology students – and postgraduate programme students, specialist trainees) interested in working in the post-diagnostic clinical field relating to neurocognitive disorders and dementias. Other health and social care professionals with proven experience in the field of care for people with dementia may also take part.
Teaching methods: Theoretical lectures delivered remotely and in person; individual and group practical activities to encourage personal reflection and the exchange of skills and good practice; tasks to be completed asynchronously for the applied in-depth study of the theoretical lectures.
Enrolment fee: 150 €
How to apply: https://www.dpg.unipd.it/didattica/corsi-apprendimento-permanente/living-well-dementia-vivere-bene-con-la-demenza.
Payment of the fee is required in a single instalment. The fee will be refundable only if the course does not start owing to failure to reach the minimum number: min. 8 participants - max. 25 participants.
For information: master.invecchiamento@unipd.it
Course facilities: Zoom platform and classrooms in Via Venezia 12, School of Psychology, Padua
Lecturers:
- University lecturers: Erika Borella,
- External lecturers:
- Samantha Pradelli, Senior Psychologist, Primary Care - AULSS 7 Pedemontana, or Livia Wright, cognitive behavioural psychotherapist, Associazione Novilunio APS
- Cristian Leorin, President, Associazione Novilunio APS,
- Eloisa Stella, Vice-President, Associazione Novilunio APS
- Richard Cheston, Professor of Dementia Research
at the University del West of England
Programme:
- Module 1: The course “Living well with dementia”: aims and contents.
During this module, the new social and clinical context that created the need to design the “Living well with dementia” model will be discussed, and the aims, tools and contents of the intervention (8+2 sessions of the model) will be presented.
The techniques proposed by the model for carrying out group work will be discussed. Good practices for promoting the group, selecting participants and preparing
the setting for each meeting will be shared, and some support materials produced together with group participants will be presented.
The experiences of those who have run this programme both in person and online, both in institutional settings and in association-based contexts, will be presented. The pros and cons of the two meeting formats will be discussed.
- Module 2: Experiential workshop
This module includes an experiential workshop, in small groups, in which participants will have the opportunity to discuss and experience the emotional and practical aspects of the different course modules. Transcripts of group meetings led by the speakers, in which critical issues and useful facilitation strategies emerged, will be shared, analysed and commented on. Each participant
will therefore have the opportunity to take on the role of facilitator and thus experiment with modes of
interaction and responses to be formulated, while critical ability in formulating the intervention will be encouraged. Following this exchange, and by adopting a co-design approach, the good practices to be adopted in groups will subsequently be developed together
Lifelong learning courses