Jacqueline Parkes
Professor in Applied Mental Health
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Advanced Dementia Care
Key Facts
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Duration
3 months Part Time
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Level
PostgraduatePG
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Starting
February
FEB
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Part Time: £967 per 20 credits
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Distance Learning
Updated 03/02/2026
Overview
The University of Northampton Dementia Research & Innovation Centre (NDRIC) is currently offering a University (Masters Level 7) module on person-centred and family focused approaches to dementia care.
Advanced Dementia Care is for leaders and managers in health and social care who are providing and delivering care to people living with dementia (PWD) and carers. Adopting a person-centred family focused approach, this online module explores the contemporary evidence-base, recent policy developments, and innovations in dementia care practice.
Highlights
- Module is taught exclusively online allowing flexible learning.
- Option for learning to be accessed as CPD study without assessment and credit.
- Becoming Dementia Friendly – students are encouraged to think about how their own organisations can be ‘challenged’ to become more person-centred and family orientated.
Entry Requirements
Students will need to provide evidence of study at level 6 (or equivalent) or tier 2/3 in the ‘Dementia Training Standards Framework, Skills for Health, Health Education England and Skills for Care (2018). Students will also need regular access to dementia patients and carers.
What You'll Learn
This module has been specifically designed to enhance the contemporary knowledge and expertise of leaders and managers in health and social care provision who are providing services and delivering care to people living with dementia (PWD) and their carers.
The aim of the module is to further develop the knowledge of key staff who are working with people who are living with dementia and their carers in order to prepare them to lead in the development and transformation of informal social support networks and formal care pathways.
The content includes:
- Day 1 – Person-Centred Care – Living with Dementia
- Day 2– Person-Centred Care – Communication and the Environment
- Day 3 – Leadership and Transition
- Day 4 – Policy into Practice
- Day 5 – Research into Practice
For those wishing to access any of the above as standalone CPD study days, please email cpd@northampton.ac.uk for more information, prices and to book.
This is a distance learning module so all learning, teaching and assessment will take place exclusively online.
Fees and Funding
2026/27 Tuition Fees
Fees quoted relate to study in the Academic Year 26/27 only and may be subject to inflationary increases in future years.
- Module costs: £967 part time per 20 credit module
- Study Days / CPD workshop cost: TBC
For more information about possible funding options, please visit our Fees and Funding pages.
Fees quoted relate to study in the Academic Year 25/26 only and may be subject to inflationary increases in future years.
- Module costs: £945 part time per 20 credit module
- Study Days / CPD workshop cost: £120
Fees quoted relate to study in the Academic Year 24/25 only and may be subject to inflationary increases in future years.
- Module costs: £920 part time per 20 credit module
- Study Days / CPD workshop cost: £120
Staff
Facilities
The course is partially delivered in a community venue where contemporary, evidence-based post-diagnostic support is being delivered to people with dementia and their carers.
