Mental Health Dementia and Learning Disability (Awareness)

Objectives:

• Each of the three main topics – mental illness, dementia, and learning disability – is discussed separately and then strategies for enabling people to live lives as they choose are introduced.
• Particular concerns are addressed, such as hate crime, and the stigma of mental illness.
• What is a learning disability
• What the experience of a person with a learning disability might be
• The possible support needs of people with mild, moderate and severe learning disabilities
• What is dementia
• What the experience a person with dementia might be
• The possible support needs of people with mild, moderate and severe dementia
• About different types of mental illness
• What the experience of a person with a mental illness might be
• The possible support needs of people with different mental illnesses
• How to promote the safety of people with a disability
• What are social and medical models of disability
• How to support a person with a learning disability, dementia or a mental illness
• The importance of early diagnosis
• About the legislation relating to people with mental illness, learning disability or dementia
• The requirement for confidentiality
• About mental capacity and decision-making