This course is for non-clinically qualified staff (e.g. assistant psychologists, dementia support workers) supporting people with dementia and their families, or qualified psychologists/service managers who want training to set up, deliver or oversee DREAMS: START delivery in their service/organisation.

DREAMS: START is a six-session intervention developed to help people with dementia with sleep problems and reduce the impact on them and their family. DREAMS: START is the first safe and effective treatment for sleep disturbance in dementia; it improves sleep in the short (after 8 months) and long term (after 2 years) for people with dementia and also improves family carers sleep and is cost-effective. It is manualised and uses strategies adapted for each person like increasing light, activity, comfort, routine and relaxation. People without clinical training deliver DREAMS: START individually to family carers.

This course includes:

2x half-day training sessions, including 8 hours of training delivered by the UCL clinical team on September 22nd and 29th

1x full day sign off and accreditation session delivered on October 5th.

+ course and delivery materials

Note: Staff intending to deliver DREAMS: START sessions are advised to sign up to the entire course (training + accreditation sessions). Senior qualified staff may wish to join the training sessions only