Training

Dementia Training

Dementia Stars programme

Our flagship dementia stars programme puts professionals in the shoes of someone living with dementia.  Helping staff to understand behaviours and reactions, discovering what you might do to help and support a person with dementia better. 

The programme is split into 3 2- hour sessions bronze, silver and gold to give participants chance to reflect in-between sessions and re-establish learning regularly.

What will I take away from the workshops?

  • Increased knowledge about dementia and how it affects the brain

  • An understanding of the impact dementia on the communication, the senses and behaviour

  • What you can do to help and support a person with dementia better

After attending each workshop participants will receive a badge and a certificate of the relevant stage; bronze, silver and gold.

What have attendees said?

‘I think this training course is well worth attending and is vital to staff that are working with people with dementia.’

‘This should be a mandatory course for all people who work with people with dementia’

If you would like to book Dementia stars for your staff contact us here.


 Bespoke Dementia training

Following on from Dementia Stars sessions we have created bespoke dementia workshops around themes such as:

  • Mental Capacity and Dementia

  • End of Life and Dementia

  • Dementia with additional sensory loss

This has given staff members greater insight and in-depth understanding around particular issues.

What have attendees said?

‘Really useful and thought-provoking, lots of information but also lots of time for sharing thoughts and ideas’

‘Brilliant session’

If you would like to book bespoke dementia training for your staff contact us here.

Improving your workplace training

 Preparing for retirement

Did you know that 9% of people experience a negative impact on their mental health when they retire?  Help your staff to not be part of that statistic!   

This 1-day course helps staff to explore the impact of retirement on every aspect of their life and what they can do now to plan for the best retirement possible.

What will I take away from the workshop?

  • Understanding around the impact of retirement emotionally, physically and financially

  • Understand how to prepare for the change of retirement

  • How to plan for a better retirement


Well-being in the workplace

Poor mental health costs employers in the UK between £33 billion and £42 billion a year (Thriving at Work report, 2017).  Come along to this workshop to learn what you can do about it.

This 1-day course helps staff to understand the value of staff well-being, what the workplace can do to achieve better staff well-being and how this can improve your business. 

What will I take away from this workshop?

  • How staff well-being impacts on your business

  • How to create a more positive impact on staff well-being

  • What to do about staff stress


 Adapting your workplace for older staff

 How can your business get the most out of the older staff you employ?  Why do so many organisations lose these integral employees at a most crucial time?  What can you do to stop it?

This half day course allows staff to explore how older staff members might feel, what we can do differently and how we can keep valued older staff members part of the business.

What will I take away from this workshop?

  • What the barriers are for older workers

  • How you can better support older staff members

  • What you can do to get the most out of older employees


Adapting your workplace for older customers

How can your business make more money by focussing on older customers?  Why do so many organisations lose the valuable older customer?  How can you harness the power of the older customer? 

This half day course allows participants to experience what an older customer may feel like.  In doing this, we piece together what might be done differently and how we can enable older customers to feel they want to engage with the organisation again and again.

What will I take away from this workshop?

  • Identify the barriers for older customers

  • how to encourage more older customers to spend with you

  • how to get the most out of your older customers

Bespoke training

 Do you want to improve your workplace but want some training designed specifically for your company?  Do you want all your staff to know about how to improve the work-place well-being within your company? Think we could help?  Just contact us here.