Summative - 3000 word essay

1 - Written assignment (including essay) - 100

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<ul><li>The evidence base for advanced aspects of care in Dementia and Frailty </li></ul>
<ul><li>Communicating and connecting with people with complex needs </li></ul>
<ul><li>Carer and family engagement </li></ul>
<ul><li>Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment </li></ul>
<ul><li>Shared decision making  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Balancing risk and safety </li></ul>
<ul><li>Promoting self-management and engaging technology </li></ul>
<ul><li>Staying connected – social networks, care networks </li></ul>
<ul><li>Managing transitions in care </li></ul>
<ul><li>Service development  </li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

Self-directed - 

Caring for Older People: A shared approach London Sage

Living Better with Dementia Good practice and innovation for the future

Excellence in Dementia Care Research into practice

International Journal of Nursing Studies 66 pp 60-71 

Supportive care for older people with frailty in hospital

APM059 - Leading Care in Dementia and Frailty

APM059-PRD3-ALV1

Teaching on this module will be student-centred and interactive.  Classroom based activities will include lectures from experts in the field, case study discussions and journal club activities, where you will be supported to relate your learning to your area of practice. Sharing experiences from practice and peer to peer learning will be encouraged. 
 
Self-directed study will be vital to your success on the module and will be used to help you prepare for and consolidate learning from the classroom based activities. This may include online discussion fora to debate relevant topics and share learning and online activities to consolidate your knowledge of age related conditions and dementia. You will be directed to key literature and recent research related to frailty and the management of dementia and complex conditions so that you may develop an increased awareness of contemporary thinking in this field of practice.  
 
A formative presentation on the development of an aspect of supportive care based on assessment of need will help you to relate learning to practice and to consider the evidence for an aspect of care in preparation for your summative assessment. 
 
This module’s contact hours will be delivered using a number of different approaches. As an example, you may have a combination of in-person sessions (i.e. face to face on campus), and/or online synchronous sessions (participants are engaged at the same time online) and online asynchronous guided activities (you need to plan time to engage with these so you are prepared for the in person and synchronous sessions. These may include viewing recorded lectures and/or other online resources, reading materials, undertaking quizzes, completing exercises and chatting on forums.) In addition to these teaching delivery approaches, you will undertake your own independent study, which may involve wider reading, independent research, skills practice and preparation for assessment. Please see this module’s Moodle page and/or handbook for further information.

Leading Care in Dementia and Frailty

Critically evaluate the evidence base for fundamental aspects of care that people with complex needs require  

Knowledge

Propose ways to manage the psychological, emotional, cultural and information needs of people and their families or carers. 

Skills

Develop ways to help and empower other members of the care team to understand and apply the evidence base for fundamental aspects of care 

Challenge stereotypes including individual, organisational and societal 

Values and attitudes

Propose ways to help people with complex needs remain independent and stay connected, engaging technology as appropriate 

Critically evaluate policy, practice and theory related to ageing, dementia and frailty 

 Critically discuss the concept of transitions in care as more than moving between care settings but as moving along a continuum of care from diagnosis to end to life 

Reflect critically on the complex communication skills required in the assessment of and facilitation of supportive care for people with dementia and/ or frailty

Critically explore and analyse the range of options available to provide supportive care for people with complex needs within your area of expertise, balancing risk and safety 

Critically explore your role in leading and managing supportive care and in supporting the person and their family to be at the centre of transitions in care

Critically evaluate the human, environmental, organisational and care related factors that may alter the health status of a person with complex needs and critically evaluate your role in minimising and preventing deterioration 

Critically evaluate the role of social and care networks in supportive care

Critically evaluate the use of a comprehensive geriatric assessment and the evidence that underpins this 

Undertake a comprehensive assessment of the person with complex needs that includes their level of function and quality of life and be able to recognise and respond to changes in the person’s health status 

Critically evaluate and reflect on your own knowledge in relation to age related conditions, dementia and frailty and the impact these have on care needs and quality of life 