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Dementia Supportive Communities: Everyday Skills That Make a Difference
This short course is for community members, leaders, and workers who want to understand dementia and help make life better for people affected by it.
Course Introduction
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Welcome to Dementia Supportive Communities: Everyday Skills That Make a Difference.
This short course is for community members, leaders, and workers who want to understand dementia and help make life better for people affected by it.
Whether you joined out of curiosity, care, or because it’s part of your role, this course will give you clear tools, real stories, and useful examples. You’ll build both confidence and empathy as you learn.
You’ll discover how dementia affects people and families, what you can do to reduce barriers, and how small actions – when many people take them – can change whole communities.
By the end, you won’t just know more about dementia. You’ll know how to help create communities where everyone belongs.
Learning Outcomes
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After completing the course, you will be able to:
- Explain what dementia is, including common symptoms and how they may show up in daily life.
- Understand the practical and emotional effects of dementia on individuals and families.
- Describe what it means to be part of a Dementia Supportive Community.
- Take confident first steps to make your own community more dementia supportive.
Course Breakdown
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This course has four sessions:
- Introduction to Dementia
- The Impacts of Dementia
- Dementia Supportive Communities
- Your Dementia Supportive Communities Toolkit
Each session is broken down into parts that contain useful information and activities that test your understanding.
How to Navigate and Complete the Course
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To begin, click on a session in the Course Sessions section at the bottom of this page. From there, you can move through the sessions and parts using the buttons at the bottom of each page.
When you have reviewed all the parts and completed the activities for each session, you’ll receive a digital badge. This shows your commitment to raising awareness, reducing stigma, and taking dementia supportive actions.
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