Care Certificate | Standard 9: Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia and Learning Disability e-Learning
Care Certificate: Standard 9 - Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia and Learning Disability
This session is designed to support you in improving your awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disability. It forms part of the learning for the Care Certificate.
Session Overview
This session is designed to support you in improving your awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disability. It forms part of the learning for the Care Certificate.
Duration: 30 minutes.
Complete
By the end of this session you should be able to:
- list how someone may feel if they have a mental health condition, dementia or learning disability, how their support needs differ and how these conditions may affect their needs in relation to the care they receive
- explain how positive attitudes towards individuals with mental health conditions, dementia or learning disabilities improves the care and support they receive and how the social model of disability underpins these attitudes
- describe the types of adjustments that might need to be made to the care provided to individuals with a mental health condition, dementia or learning disability, and how to report concerns associated with unmet needs
- explain why early detection of mental health needs, dementia or learning disability is important and give examples of how adjustments might need to be made to care and support once identified
- list the main legislative requirements and explain how this legislation may affect day-to-day living
- explain the term capacity, why you should assume an individual has it and circumstances where an assessment of capacity might need to be undertaken
- explain the term ‘consent’ and how it may change according to decisions that need to be taken
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