A scary word. I’m guessing it has touched the lives of most people.
On Facebook one morning – I received a notification that the University of Tasmania was offering a **Free** course on understanding dementia. I have time. I have interest. I signed up.
The brain, the disease and the person are the focus.
Here’s their blurb:
What is the Understanding Dementia MOOC?
The University of Tasmania’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Understanding Dementia, is an easily accessible 9 week online course that builds upon the latest in international research on dementia. It’s free and anyone can enrol.
The ageing of human populations across the globe has contributed to dementia being identified as one of the public health issues of the 21st century. The MOOC curriculum addresses this health issue by drawing upon the expertise of neuroscientists, clinicians and dementia care professionals from both within the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, and beyond.
Since 2013, 70,000 people have enrolled in the course from 170 countries.
You can enrol until September 23, 2016. It’s through an online set-up called MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).
I just finished the first unit and it was excellent. I highly recommend participating if you have the interest. You don’t need to have medical background to benefit from this course.
Yes that is a scary word, I enjoyed your thoughtful post about this topic!
The course is very good. I passed the first unit with a 95%.
I agree it’s a scary word, and it’s always good to be informed. I appreciate your words.
Thank you. I forget the numbers but it will definitely be impacting all of us at some point.