Working in partnership with people with dementia and family carers for the digital delivery of a national workforce development programme: Scotland's Dementia Champions

In 2021 Scotlands’ National Dementia Champions programme 2021 was commissioned to be delivered digitally as part of the Scottish Governments’ Dementia and Covid Recovery Plan. This seminar will provide insight into the multi-agency and multi-speciality approach to adapting this long-established programme into the digital sphere. It will demonstrate the educational strategies and evidence-based pedagogy used to retain the underpinning values of the programme and the voice of people with dementia and their families central while developing staff as agents of change.
Experts in dementia education, national and international hybrid delivery and clinical peers who outline their learning and early evaluation findings from the rapidly moving digital development and delivery.
During and after the session, the participants will understand,
• the aim of Scotland’s National Dementia Champions programme
• the multi-agency process and educational strategies used to enable the digital delivery
• the multi-media approaches and mediating artefacts used to support learning
• early evaluative feedback from participants.
• the learning so far concerning the digital delivery of a national workforce development programme.