"Baristas can receive more training to make great coffee" compared with the preparation given to care workers looking after ...

Baristas get more training than social care workers tasked with looking after dementia patients, a charity has revealed.

Training and staff retention are especially important due to the complexities of caring for residents with dementia or other cognitive impairments. A mid-December report confirmed that staff education ...

This report reveals huge gaps in dementia training across social care: half of staff receive just one to two hours of dementia learning despite 70% of care home residents living with the condition. It ...

No one associated with nursing homes – as residents or their families, friends, staff or administrators – is unaware of the massive impact of the pandemic on these facilities which provide essential ...

Quality of life for people with dementia living in residential and nursing home care substantially improved after staff took part in a digital training program that was specially adapted to COVID-19 ...

Quality of life for people with dementia living in residential and nursing home care substantially improved after staff took part in a digital training programme that was specially adapted to Covid-19 ...

George Mason University Assistant Professor Li-Mei Chen partnered with fellow social work professor Megumi Inoue to launch a pilot to train certified nursing assistants through virtual reality.

Aging makes independence more challenging for many adults, particularly those with dementia. Long-term care facilities, such as assisted living and memory care, however, can help fill the gaps ...

Alzheimer’s Society is warning that serious shortfalls in dementia training in Northern Ireland are leaving social care staff ...

When a New Jersey facility opened a new memory care neighborhood last month, it touted a special building design, dementia-specific caregiver experience and training, and life enrichment programming ...

Quality of life for people with dementia living in residential and nursing home care substantially improved after staff took part in a digital training programme that was specially adapted to Covid-19 ...