Duration
1day
Location
In-house
Availability
Good
Suitable for: All What does this mean?
We do not know how many over 55’s experience mental illness or neurodiversity:
- Dementia is mostly detected but sometimes this happens later than is helpful for the person or their family
- Many older people have long term mental health problems, some develop mental illness because of their age, or isolation, economic inactivity, physical illness, bereavement, financial issues can all trigger poor mental health
- Many men over 55 have minor Autism (previously called Asperger’s), or other forms of neurodiversity which were not easily understood and assessed before the 1990’s.
This session will explore older people’s mental illness, neurodiversity and dementia. It will explore these conditions, the tips to work with these conditions, and how to try and get help from social services or mental health services.
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Delegates will:
- Explore over 55s mental health from stress to late onset Psychosis
- Be given possible causes of poor mental health in older people and preventative strategies
- Look at neurodiversity and learning disability, diagnosed or suspected in over 55s
- Explore dementia and its many different types, early signs, MCI vs normal forgetfulness
- Understand the care act 2015 and both need assessment and safeguarding, and what type of support is needed when
- Understand relevant elements of the Mental capacity act 2005, Mental health act 1983/2007, and the Equalities act 2010 especially the ‘reasonable adjustment’ elements of the landlord duty
- Look at communication, engagement, risk management and other tools, techniques and strategies for working with this group of people.
Who should attend?
This course will benefit anyone who works with the over 55s, general needs, sheltered schemes, customer facing staff and managers.
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Our trainer
Danny McGowan BSC, MSC has been involved in supporting people with substance misuse, mental health and other complex needs for over 20 years. He has developed experience in many specialist areas, such as working with hoarders and those with a dual diagnosis and has delivered training in techniques such as motivational interviewing and CBT. He has been delivering training for the housing sector for over a decade and has many years’ experience of developing client/customer involvement and peer mentoring schemes.
Danny uses a combination of his years of experience, current good practice guidelines and research evidence to deliver the topics he trains. He uses a holistic interactive training style that provides delegates with real skills and information, which they are then able to apply back in the workplace and beyond. He has delivered training and provided consultancy to numerous organisations during his career. Notable clients include the Department of Health, Department of Work and Pensions and the Home Office as well as housing organisations across the UK.
We can bring this course to you.
If you have five or more staff interested our
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