Educating and Training the Workforce to Work with People with Dementia: Two Projects from the United Kingdom

Autor/inn/en	Mustafa, Nageen; Tsaroucha, Anna; Le Mesurier, Nick; Benbow, Susan Mary; Kingston, Paul
Titel	Educating and Training the Workforce to Work with People with Dementia: Two Projects from the United Kingdom
Quelle	In: Educational Gerontology, 39 (2013) 6, S.398-412 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0360-1277
DOI	10.1080/03601277.2012.701102
Schlagwörter	Dementia; Foreign Countries; Labor Force Development; Course Content; Health Personnel; Classification; Patients; Comorbidity; Caseworkers; Questionnaires; Health Services; Training; Knowledge Level; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Adult Education; Higher Education; Interviews; Employees; Life Style; Mental Health; Intervention; Older Adults; Caregivers; Caregiver Training; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Demenz; Ausland; Arbeitskräftebestand; Kursprogramm; Medizinisches Personal; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Patient; Fragebogen; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Ausbildung; Wissensbasis; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Lebensstil; Psychohygiene; Älterer Erwachsener; Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Großbritannien
Abstract	Educating and training the dementia workforce is a global challenge, given the expected increasing number of people living with dementia across the world as the population ages. Two projects from the UK (one regionally and one locality based) investigated courses available to the workforce and mapped the content of identified courses against a locally developed dementia care pathway. The locality project included a survey of what percentage of staff time was spent with people living with dementia, and what percentage of staff caseloads were devoted to people living with dementia. There was a great variation in the extent of education and training available, with some stages of the dementia care pathway poorly addressed. An educational strategy for the dementia workforce in the UK might include four categories of education and training: basic dementia awareness, intermediate level, advanced level, and dementia awareness for managers. Staff requiring education and training might be divided into three groups: those employed to work specifically with people living with dementia and their families; those working with people who have other conditions but some of whom will have a coincidental dementia; those working with other conditions but in settings where a high proportion of their patients have a comorbid dementia. To improve workforce skills in dementia care will require actions across the whole of education and training for professionals and untrained workers who provide services to this group. (Contains 2 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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