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GREAT Cognitive Rehabilitation - eLearning course
GREAT Cognitive Rehabilitation - eLearning course
What is GREAT goal-oriented cognitive rehabilitation?
GREAT goal-oriented cognitive rehabilitation (GREAT CR) is a personalised intervention that supports functional ability for people with mild-to-moderate dementia. It helps people maintain independence by more effectively managing the impact of dementia on their ability to engage in everyday activities. GREAT CR is conducted in people’s own homes over several sessions with a practitioner, who works with the person and the care partner to identify realistic and meaningful goals, plan ways of addressing these, and support goal attainment. GREAT stands for goal-oriented rehabilitation in early-stage Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
What is the evidence for GREAT CR?
The GREAT randomised controlled trial showed that GREAT CR enables people with dementia to improve their everyday functioning in relation to the goals that they work on. A subsequent study showed the same benefits when GREAT CR was delivered as part of usual NHS services.
What does the course cover?
You will learn the skills needed to offer GREAT CR to people with dementia and their families, including:
· The principles of GREAT CR
· How to work with clients to formulate individual rehabilitation goals
· How to apply a range of rehabilitative strategies to enable people to attain their goals
· How to evaluate client progress and make adaptations where needed
You will gain access to a handbook and other resources to use in your work with clients.
Who is the course suitable for?
The course is suitable for health and social care practitioners, assistants and trainees involved in the direct care of people with dementia, including occupational therapists, nurses and psychologists. Managers who support practitioners working in this way may also find the course useful.
The GREAT CR development team are Linda Clare, Sue Evans, Jackie Pool, Rachael Litherland, Aleksandra Kudlicka, Jan Oyebode and Bob Woods.
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Our trainers
Our trainers
Jackie Pool
Jackie Pool
Jackie Pool is a leading UK specialist in dementia care who has dedicated her professional career of more than 30 years to improving the lives of people who are living with dementia. She began as an Occupational Therapy support worker in a Liverpool hospital in the early 1980s where she saw at first-hand how services provided to people with dementia could vary from being highly supportive to being undermining of an individual’s wellbeing.
Sue Evans
Sue Evans
Sue Evans is an experienced Occupational Therapist who has been involved in research on developing GREAT Cognitive Rehabilitation for over 10 years and has extensive hands-on experience of delivering the intervention to people with early-stage Alzheimer’s and related dementias. Sue has recently been training and supervising practitioners as part of her involvement in the GREAT into Practice Implementation study. She lives and works in mountainous North Wales.
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