Developing facilitation skills amongst undergraduate nursing students to promote dementia awareness with children in a higher education institution (innovative practice)

Caroline Gibson; Karen Rennie; Jan Dewing; Lesley McKinlay

doi:10.1177/1471301218811788

Developing facilitation skills amongst undergraduate nursing students to promote dementia awareness with children in a higher education institution (innovative practice)

Caroline Gibson
, Karen Rennie
, Jan Dewing
, Lesley McKinlay

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Abstract

Final year students on a BSc Hons Nursing programme in Scotland were supported to become Dementia Friends facilitators and develop interactive dementia awareness sessions for children from local schools. The children were invited to indicate phrases and images they associated with ‘dementia’ at the outset and end of the session. Analysis of the responses suggested that there were positive changes in the children’s values and beliefs when thinking about a person living with dementia during the sessions. We suggest that peer learning is a valuable strategy to increase public and professional awareness about dementia and supports the development of graduate attributes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Dementia
Volume	19
Issue number	8
Early online date	17 Nov 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301218811788
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2020

Keywords

dementia
Dementia Friends
education
inclusivity
peer facilitation

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Sociology and Political Science
General Social Sciences

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