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Time for Dementia: an innovation in education

02 November 2017
Features
02 November 2017
Volume 9 · Issue 11

Abstract

This paper describes an innovative undergraduate educational initiative called the Time for Dementia programme. It was developed to improve the knowledge, attitudes and skills in dementia among healthcare students. Time for Dementia involves pairs of healthcare students (medical, paramedic, adult and mental health nursing, and allied health professionals) visiting a person with dementia and their carer in their homes over a period of 2 years. The aim of the programme is to enable students to learn with people with dementia and their carers—recognising that people with dementia have unique expertise derived from their experiences. Their personal narratives offer students a unique insight into the subjective experiences of dementia.

Dementia is a global condition affecting 46 million people with an annual cost of $600 billion. Case numbers will double, and costs will at least triple, in the next 20 years (Alzheimer's Disease International, 2010; Prince et al, 2013).

Time for Dementia (Banerjee et al, 2016) is an educational programme for undergraduate healthcare students including medical, adult and mental health nursing, and allied health professionals, as well as paramedic students. The programme involves students visiting a family affected by dementia in their homes over a 2-year period in order to enhance their skills and knowledge about the condition.

The programme was established to address limitations in the skills of healthcare personnel. Examples include insufficient knowledge of dementia, and limited attitudes, skills and competencies across all professional groups, which lead to poor care experiences and outcomes for people with dementia and their carers. UK policy is clear that dementia education needs to be improved (Department of Health (DH), 2009; 2013; 2015; Prince et al, 2016). People with dementia are frequent users of healthcare services. Consequently, there is a need for quality dementia education to ensure the future paramedic workforce is equipped with the skills to provide quality care to people living with dementia (DH, 2010; College of Paramedics (CoP), 2015)

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