Postgraduate Dementia

Explore a range of approaches aimed at supporting people living with dementia to maintain healthy lives. Critical factors in quality of life, such as assessment, intervention and therapeutics, communication, and social and care environments, are used to support a human rights-based approach to meeting the needs of people living with dementia.

Examine the function and dysfunction of the brain to get a deep understanding of the diseases that cause dementia. The roles of disease biomarkers in diagnosis and therapeutic evaluation are reviewed, along with the strengths and weaknesses of current laboratory-based and clinical research in these areas.

Examine the ways that healthcare systems and government policy affect health and social care provision. Evaluate and engage with the design of policies and systems to directly improve the lives of people living with dementia, and the people who care for them.

Explore the evidence for dementia prevention, as well as the rise of dementia-friendly communities, in the context of public health strategy. Look at ways to reduce dementia incidence through health education, behaviour change, awareness raising, and adapting public spaces and facilities to accommodate the needs of people living with dementia.

Develop and refine your skills in the critical evaluation and design of research. At the graduate diploma level, all units engage with the primary research literature in their respective fields, and a dedicated unit examines research techniques in the major domains. At the master’s level, a major project unit allows you to explore a topic of particular interest at greater depth.