Dementia Care Training

'Coping with Caring' is a training course for carers that runs in the spring each year. It takes place over nine half day sessions. It's for carers, family and friends of people with dementia.

Dementia is a term used to describe various different brain disorders that have in common a loss of brain function that is usually progressive and eventually severe. There are over 100 types of dementia. The most common are Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. Symptoms include loss of memory, confusion and problems with speech and understanding.

The 'Coping with Caring' sessions are:

• What is dementia?
• Residential services; Day care services
• Medication; Continence
• Role of the care co-ordinator; Person centred care
• Coping with the stress of caring; Nutrition
• Benefits
• Direct payments; Carer's grant
• Further support; The Alzheimer's branch and support groups
• Feedback evaluation

If you are a carer for a person with dementia and would like to book a place on the course or would like to find out more about Alzheimer's and the other illnesses that cause dementia then get in touch.

Useful contacts

Coping With Caring - Dementia Care Training
Address: Heath Road Day Centre, Heath Road, Ashton-In-Makerfield, Wigan, WN4 9HH
Phone: 01942 777979
Email: d.ralph@wigan.gov.uk

Wigan Independent Advice Centre
Address: 26, Rodney House, King Street, Wigan,WN1 1BT
Phone: 01942 324851

Alzheimer's Society Ashton, Leigh and Wigan
Address: Wigan Investment Centre, Waterside Drive, Wigan, WN3 5BA
Phone: 01942 247837 or 0845 300 0336 if out of hours
Web: www.alzheimers.org.uk
Email: wigan@alzheimers.org.uk