Professional Certificate in Clinical Practice – Dementia Care
Objectives
The certificate provides knowledge and skills, through Person Centered Care principles, for practitioners to be more effective in their direct work with Persons with Dementia and/or caregivers.
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Respect and recognize the decisions/ choices that persons with dementia can make in some aspects of their care.
- Gain understanding of the needs of persons with dementia through the illness trajectory.
- React appropriately and communicate effectively when caring for persons with dementia who display distressed or challenging behavior.
- Support the needs and provide engagements to persons with dementia with the aim of enhancing their quality of life.
- Engage persons with dementia in making future plans and decisions, as well as protect their interest.
- Allow care staff and caregivers in their journey with persons with dementia to provide continuing care to persons with dementia till end of life.
Who Should Attend
This certificate is targeted at:
- Social workers, counsellors, case workers, community workers who work with Persons with Dementia and their caregivers, and
- Two years of relevant work experience of working with Persons with Dementia and/or their caregivers
Delivery Mode
Face-to-Face Sessions and Preparation Work
Funding Type
SSG Funding
Course Brochure
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Enquiries
Email to swkcpepc@nus.edu.sg
Certificate Outline
We Understand - Persons with Dementia and their Caregivers’ Challenges
[16 & 17 July 2024]
Participants will be able to:
- Experience what Persons with Dementia go through and reflect upon their own attitude towards dementia
- Meet the needs of Persons with Dementia at their various stages through the disease trajectory
- Empathise and support caregivers in their caregiving journey to provide continuing care to persons with dementia, as well as self-preservation.
We Support – Enabling Persons with Dementia, Empowering Caregivers through Person Centered Care
[15 & 16 Aug 2024]
Participants will be able to:
- React appropriately and communicate effectively when caring for a person with dementia who display distressed or challenging behavior
- Learn ways to engage Persons with Early Dementia as they begin their dementia journey and to perform insight assessment
- Practise PCC through role plays and work on a challenging case as a group, through PCC assessment and intervention
We Journey – Till End of Life, through Grief & Loss in Dementia
[13 Sep 2024]
Participants will be able to:
- Understand the challenges the Person with Dementia and caregivers face during EOL of dementia care
- Provide therapeutic interventions to support caregivers undergoing the process of grief and loss, with intent to preserve the personhood of Person with Dementia. This includes social ACP interventions.
We Plan Ahead & Protect – Capturing Wishes of Persons with Dementia and Protecting their Vulnerabilities
[20 Sep 2024]
Participants will be able to:
- Learn ways to engage in early advanced care planning for Persons with Dementia and ways to conduct an insight assessment for readiness of ACP
- Understand the various protective legislations, the ethical considerations, family dynamics and conflict as well as to reflect on the appropriate approach that social worker can take to provide protective care to the vulnerable Persons with Dementia
Fees
| Fees Description | Total Nett Programme Fee (Before GST) | Total Payable (Inc GST) for Professional Certificate |
| Full certificate fees | $5,700.00 | $6,213.00 |
| Pricing after SSG Funding* (Singapore Citizen below 40 years / Singapore Permanent Resident) | $1,710.00 | $1,863.90 |
| Pricing after SSG Funding* (Singapore Citizen aged 40 years and above) | $664.13 | $723.90 |
About the Instructors
Dr Goh Soon Noi
Senior Master Medical Social Worker
Changi General Hospital
Ms Jenny Goh
Medical Social Work Specialist
Dementia & Geriatric Care
Dr Goh is the pioneer social worker in the area of geriatric social work. She makes her contribution as a practitioner, researcher, innovation in service delivery, educator and advocate. She is a firm believer of our unique model of joint responsibility of individual, family, community and government in elder care.
An advocate for integrated care services and support for families she spearheaded the home care coordinators in CGH in 2001, which evolved into the ACTion team under Agency of Integrated Care and later Neighbours under the Hospital to Home pro-gramme. Dr Goh also holds appointments in committees in social service agencies.
Ms Jenny Goh has more than 20 years of clinical experience in acute hospital social work. She was Manager of the Medical Social Service department in Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) for 10 years. With specialised training in dementia care, she has a clinical practice as a Principal Medical Social Worker in Geriatric clinic at KTPH. Her clinical work revolves around counseling persons with early dementia and guiding them in advanced care planning, supporting caregivers and helping them cope with caring for a relative with dementia, in particular challenging behaviour, grief and loss.
She is an Advanced Mapper in Dementia Care Mapping, has been trained in Time Slips© creativity for dementia care and has also been certified in Advanced Care Planning (ACP) from Respecting Choices©. She teaches Person Centred Care, end of life care, ACP and ethical issues in case management. She is also a well-established clinical supervisor. For her teaching excellence, Ms Jenny has been awarded the Ann Wee NUS Social Work Alumni Award in 2019.
Ms Alicia Tan
Senior Master Medical Social Worker
Sengkang General Hospital
Ms Anuradha Kaliappan
Principal Medical Social Worker
Changi General Hospital
Ms Alicia Tan is a Senior Master Medical Social Worker of Sengkang General Hospital. She possessed more than 20 years of clinical experience in acute hospital social work and used to head the Medical Social Service department till 2024. She is a certified mapper in Dementia Care Mapping and has been trained in Montessori Based Dementia Programming®.
Her clinical work revolves around care planning for people with and also works with survivors of elder abuse and domestic violence.
Ms Anuradha is a Principal Medical Social Worker in Changi General Hospital with more than 10 years working experience with older persons and people with dementia, a recipient of 2013 Single Award Winner, ACTA (Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment) certified trainer and a certified Dementia care mapper and certified trainer for Mental Health First Aid Trainer in Older Persons (MHFA OP). She graduated with a Bachelor of Psychology Counseling and Graduate Diploma in Social Work, she has worked with adult and elderly patients with both medical and psychiatric conditions. She also provides mental health training for community partners.