With an ageing population, lawyers across many areas of practice can expect to encounter people with dementia.
This short course busts the myths and misperceptions by providing an understanding about dementia and equips lawyers with up-to-date knowledge and resources to work more effectively with clients diagnosed with, or at risk of, dementia.
This online, self-paced short course provides dementia-specific training for lawyers, with a focus on core knowledge and principles to guide effective and ethical professional practice. The course is based on the concept of a ‘dementia-capable’ legal practitioner, who encompasses attributes across four areas:
knowledge
professionalism
legal rights and risk
capacity
Equip yourself with learning and resources that can be readily implemented into practice.
This on-demand short course will enable participants to:
gain an understanding of different types of dementia and risk factors for dementia
learn best practice guidelines for professionals who work with clients with dementia
benefit from multiple perspectives, as the course incorporates the latest research on dementia and offers expert insights from medical and legal practitioners in addition to people with lived experience of dementia
build upon their existing professional expertise to become a dementia-capable legal practitioner
earn Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points: for NSW lawyers seeking to include this study towards their legal CPD requirements, note that completion of this short course may count as 2 CPD units (one legal CPD unit per hour).
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