Providing Stage-Appropriate Activities for People Living with Dementia

Are you committed to delivering truly person-centred engagement for people living with dementia?

Join us for a practical, inspiring, and evidence-informed learning experience that puts the individual at the heart of everything we do.

What Makes This Course Unique?

• Led by NAPA’s CEO, a dementia care and activity specialist with over 30 years of experience in person-centred engagement.
• Co-facilitated by NAPA’s Services Manager, who brings 15 years’ experience as an Activity Provider, championing meaningful connection through activity.
• Hear directly from people living with dementia about what matters to them, real voices, real experiences.
• Learn from NAPA’s Research and Impact Officer about the latest research on non-pharmacological, person-centred approaches to dementia care.

🌼 What You’ll Gain:

• A deeper understanding of how to adapt activities to suit the individual’s needs, interests, and stage of dementia
• Practical tools to help you build relationships through meaningful moments
• Insights into how lived experience can guide best practice
• Confidence to deliver activities that respect identity, dignity, and choice
• Strategies to support wellbeing without relying on medication

At the heart of this course is a belief that every person has the right to be seen, heard, and valued, regardless of their diagnosis. This course gives you the skills to make that happen, every day.

What Participants Say:

“Truly the most person-centred course I’ve ever done - grounded in experience and filled with heart.”– Course attendee

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Help us put people, not conditions, at the centre of care.

Attendees need to access the course using a laptop or a computer - NOT BY MOBILE PHONE

We are happy to invoice for 5 places or more. Book 10 places or more and get 1 free!!

Please email our finance team for more information: finance@napa-activities.co.uk

Course Aim

To provide activity providers and care staff with the knowledge, confidence, and practical tools to deliver person-centred, stage-appropriate activities for people living with dementia. The course blends theoretical understanding with practical application through interactive, engaging online methods.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this online training course, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the main types of dementia and describe typical signs, symptoms, and progression stages.
2. Recognise how person-centred, non-pharmacological approaches enhance wellbeing across all stages of dementia.
3. Assess individual needs and preferences at each stage of dementia and align activity provision accordingly.
4. Apply the NAPA framework of engagement to design and adapt meaningful, stage-appropriate activities.
5. Demonstrate increased confidence in using creative, inclusive methods to engage people living with dementia in emotionally and cognitively supportive ways.

Who Should Attend:

- Care Home Activity Providers

- Care Workers

- Volunteers

- Anyone interested in improving the quality of life for care home residents

Registration Fee: £69.99

Please note:The training environment will need to be quiet and undisturbed.Staff will need to give the course their full attention and should not be on duty.

Each person attending this event needs to have purchased a ticket.

If you are purchasing the tickets on behalf of someone else please forward them the booking confirmation.

Attendees need to access the course using a laptop or a computer - NOT BY MOBILE PHONE

As an attendee of the training day you MUST have your camera on during all of the sessions, this is to verify your participation/attendance.

Certificates of attendance will only be issued to attendees who attend for the whole of the session.This course will be delivered via ZOOM and will include, presentations, discussion and reflection, case studies, videos and demonstrations. Please make sure that you are familiar with using ZOOM.

Please make sure that the name and email address you register is the name and email address of the person attending. Only people registered will be admitted on to the training.

Any questions please email: qualifications@napa-activities.co.uk

Ticket sales end at 4pm on 15th October 2025 or when the event is full

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