Promoting Positive Mental Health in Older Persons

 Length of course: 1day
This course tackles the crucial subject of mental health in older persons and aims to increase hope and determination in participants that mental ill health or emotional distress do not have to be inevitable aspects to growing older. Good mental health or emotional well being in older people is not simply an absence of mental health problems, but a positive state of being at a time of life when physical discomforts may be increasing and bereavement may be too common for comfort.

The course objectives are to:

• show how mental ill health does not have to be inevitable in older age;
• consider ways of preventing mental ill health in older persons and ways of protecting ourselves for the future;
• examin contemporary law and policy in this subject;
• consider repectful communication with older people in distress;
   

This course is aimed at:

everyone who is involved in improving and maintaining the mental health and well-being of older people and woud be especially suited to front line care workers, people who are new to their role, informal carers and those who work with them, members of the public and those who simply wish to refresh knowledge and enter into discussion with other professionals about good practice and ways forward on this crucial subject.

Cost of Course: £75.00

Course Venue: TBA

Course Date: TBA

This course can also be provided in house for groups of up to 18. The course can also be delivered over two-days for a more in depth look at working ethically with older people. The two-day course looks in more detail at issues of communication, types of dementia, roles, boundaries and legal frameworks. If you are interested in the two day course please specify as provision is based upon the extent of need.