Residential & Nursing Service Specification - Dementia Care Appendix 1               

Resources/ Training & Guidance:

Standard 9 of the Care Certificate training on Mental Health, Dementia and Learning Disabilities as minimum requirement.

Standard 9 (skillsforcare.org.uk)

NICE guidelines on supporting people with dementia and their carers in Health and Social Care:

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs184

Dementia Friendly Environments:

https://www.scie.org.uk/dementia/supporting-people-with-dementia/dementia-friendly-environments/video-environment-care-home.asp

Common Core Principles for Supporting People with Dementia - A guide to training the social care and health workforce:

https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Documents/Topics/Dementia/Common-core-principles-for-dementia.pdf

Stop Look and Care:

https://eastsussexlearning.org.uk/node/1468

Dementia Friendly Communities:

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/get-involved/dementia-friendly-communities

Dementia Care Training Pathway & courses:

Dementia Training Pathway

https://adults.eastsussexlearning.org.uk/courses/bookings/default.asp?ds=1&keyword=dementia