Why join the course?
The course will provide an update on current diagnostic standards, best practice and new developments in clinical practice relating to the young onset dementias. A case-presentation session at the end of the meeting will give delegates an opportunity to have difficult cases or management dilemmas discussed by an expert panel.
Audience
General practitioners; psychiatrists (consultants and trainees); neurologists (consultants and trainees); dementia specialist nurses; dementia support workers.
Course Description
After attending the course, it is aimed that delegates will have an improved understanding of:
- The features that distinguish early stages of neurodegenerative dementia in people under 65 from the worried well or the effects of depression or anxiety.
- The diagnostic processes that lead to the recognition of Alzheimer’s disease, the frontotemporal dementias and other, rarer types of dementia in people aged under 65.
- The support that is available to people with young onset dementia after diagnosis.
Programme
The provisional programme can be viewed here (This programme is provisional and may change).
Certification
Delegates will be issued with a certificate of attendance and CPD will be sought from the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom.
Past students have said...
"Well delivered and very informative. I found the patient journey powerful and informative. Overall, I am more informed than when I started the event, which is always a win. I left the whole event feeling inspired and wanting to develop a more robust and supportive pathway and model for our young onset dementia patients."
- Delegate 2023-24
"The course was excellent! Engaging and interactive with interesting and extremely impressive presentations. Expertise shown all through out. I would definitely be looking forward to next one and highly recommend."
- Delegate 2023-24
"Brilliantly engaging lecturing style. Excellent breadth of cases. Very well presented and helpful talk. Courses like this always provoke learning or thinking about topics from a different perspective and that is very valuable particularly if you've been practising for a while and might be a bit set in your ways."
- Previous delegate
"Good combination of talks, representing whole pathway from diagnosis to care home.."
- Previous delegate