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Welcome to the NHS Walsall & Walsall Council Older People’s Mental Health e-Learning portal. Below are a series of seven e-Learning programmes developed and hosted by the Social Care Institute for Excellence.
This is a free training resource which will supplement face-to-face training. However, it should not be used in isolation or as an alternative to face-to-face training. This is because people always have questions and e-Learning does not give you the opportunity to have them answered as it does when attending face-to-face training.
To take part in this e-Learning, simply click on the sessions below and start to improve your understanding of Older People’s Mental Health:
An introduction to mental health and older people
Ageing population statistics, defining old, defining mental health.
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Attitudes and images of ageing
Attitudes to older people, poverty and old age, older people’s own attitudes.
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Risks and protective factors: older people’s mental health
Importance of mental health, defining mental health (2), mental health and successful ageing, promoting mental health.
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Common mental health problems amongst older people
Introduction to depression, introduction to dementia, long standing mental ill-health.
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Understanding the early stages of dementia
Recognising and diagnosing dementia, living with dementia, community support, values and attitudes in care.
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Understanding later stage dementia
Later stage dementia, communication, treatments and interventions, independence, carers and families.
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Understanding depression in later life
What is depression and who gets depressed?, diagnosis, risk and protective factors, suicide.
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Ageism, age discrimination and social exclusion
Age differentiation and discrimination, ageism, ageism in health and social care, social exclusion.
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Services for older people with mental health problems
Service user statistics, policy context, the care pathway, assessment, cross cutting issues.
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The life course, life stories, reminiscence and the biographical approach.
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