Communication, Interaction and Behaviour in Dementia Care for Medical Doctors

This session will introduce ways to facilitate effective communication with people living with dementia. It will help you to understand the communicative impairments as well as the retained abilities that individuals with dementia may experience and the variety of ways people with dementia may communicate their needs and preferences.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Describe different ways of communicating
• Explain the importance of communication
• Reflect on the impact of communication impairments on people living with dementia, their carers and supporters
• Identify ways in which you can effectively support communication with people living with dementia

In this session, we will reflect on the importance of communication and consider the ways in which we can recognise different ways of communicating and support effective communication with people living with dementia.

This session has been mapped to the Dementia Training Standards Framework and is designed to support the Dementia Action Alliance Dementia Statements.