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Understanding dementia and behaviour
Focus on understanding dementia and behaviour while building confidence in understand common dementia symptoms.
Person-centred dementia support for caregivers, support workers and family-care environments.
Dementia Care Basics is designed for care aides, family-care supporters, group-home staff, and new learners preparing for dementia-aware environments.
You move through 6 guided modules that combine practical explanations, scenario-based learning, and final assessment readiness for care skills work.
No formal clinical experience is required. Empathy and learner readiness are enough.
Each section is built to help learners apply the course in a real workplace, onboarding, or supervised support context.
Understand common dementia symptoms
Communicate with empathy
Respond to anxiety and agitation
Support dignity and routine
Learn in sequence, build confidence at each stage, and move toward the final assessment with clearer expectations.
Focus on understanding dementia and behaviour while building confidence in understand common dementia symptoms.
Focus on person-centred communication while building confidence in communicate with empathy.
Focus on supporting daily routines while building confidence in respond to anxiety and agitation.
Focus on responding to agitation and sundowning while building confidence in support dignity and routine.
Focus on safety, wandering and documentation while building confidence in understand common dementia symptoms.
Focus on scenario-based assessment while building confidence in communicate with empathy.
Instead of giving you a disconnected checklist, this course walks you through the tasks, decisions, and reporting habits that employers expect from healthcare support learners in Canada.
Work through a communication scenario involving anxiety, confusion, and reassurance.
Design a simple support routine that protects dignity and reduces distress triggers.
Respond to a wandering or agitation scenario with calm, person-centred choices.
Self-paced
Assessment includes communication scenarios and behaviour-response decision points.
A learner certificate is generated after course completion and assessment success.
Care aides, family-care supporters, group-home staff, and new learners preparing for dementia-aware environments.
This course is designed to support onboarding, confidence building, and role-readiness conversations for practical healthcare environments.
Care aides, family-care supporters, group-home staff, and new learners preparing for dementia-aware environments.
A learner certificate is generated after course completion and assessment success.
Short, clear answers to the practical questions that matter before you start.
No formal clinical experience is required. Empathy and learner readiness are enough.
A learner certificate is generated after course completion and assessment success.
Care aides, family-care supporters, group-home staff, and new learners preparing for dementia-aware environments.
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