selfpaced, online. Dementia is one of the foremost priorities in global health and is estimated to affect over 44 million people worldwide. This has a huge impact on individuals and on society, so improvements in understanding, care and treatments are desperately needed. In this online course, you’ll discover key issues […]

29th November to 1st December 2021, online. This year’s conference will be held under the motto “Resilience in dementia: Moving beyond the COVID-19 pandemic”.  We wish to showcase how people with dementia, their carers, Alzheimer’s associations, policy makers, health and social care professionals, researchers and industry adapted to the ongoing […]

21st September 2020, worldwide. What is dementia? The word ‘dementia’ describes a set of symptoms that may include memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving or language. These changes are often small to start with, but for someone with dementia they have become severe enough to affect daily life. A […]

Start: 30. August 2016, free online course. In response to the recent dramatic rise in the global incidence of dementia and the subsequent need for quality dementia education, this course is designed to provide understanding to improve the quality of life across the trajectory of dementia for people with the […]

Start: 17th August 2015, free online course by University of Tasmania. This is a course about dementia looking at a broad range of topics including basic brain anatomy, pathology, dementia research, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, medical management, living with dementia, progression and staging, palliation, behaviours and therapeutic approaches. In response […]