Person-Centred Dementia Studies PG-Cert

Module code: MDEM4001
Credits: 15

This mandatory module runs from September to January.

This module is designed to provide in-depth understanding of leadership required to facilitate person-centred living for people with dementia and their families. Utilising a person-centred perspective, you will develop skills necessary to lead evidence-based ways of improving the provision of support and services to maintain the personhood of people with dementia. You will develop a knowledge base and skills specific to evaluating your own and that of organisational practice, create strategies for supporting practice improvement and teamwork.

Module code: MDEM4003
Credits: 30

The taught elements of the course take place in two main periods: January to May, and September to January.

Between June and August, the focus shifts to practice-based learning. During this time, you will deliver your own Focussed Intervention Training and Support (FITS) programme into Practice training within your organisation

This module will enable you to implement the Focussed Intervention Training and Support (FITS) programme for people with dementia who have complex needs and distressed behaviour. This is an evidence-based training and support intervention that improves psychosocial care and thus reduces the use of restrictive interventions such as anti-psychotic prescribing. 

Successful completion of this module will enable you to become a Dementia Practice Development Coach (DPDC) for your organisation and implement the programme into practice across settings. It is applicable to practitioners from multi-disciplinary professional backgrounds in health and social care. As part of the module you will deliver one cohort of FITS into Practice within your organisation/s. 

Module code: MDEM4007
Credits: 15

This module runs from January to May.

This module provides in-depth understanding of the experience, needs, interventions and outcomes of family carers of persons with dementia. Family carers are recognised as having their own, often unmet needs which require meeting in the interests of their own health and wellbeing and to enable them to be more resilient carers. Whilst family carers are becoming less hidden, interventions to respond to their needs for more information, skills to manage challenges and to cope with the experience of someone with a degenerative condition, are often underdeveloped or researched. There are a number of carers who do not fit with traditional stereotypes and may be young or in paid employment, presenting additional challenges which may include not being recognised, and therefore supported, as carers. You will develop a knowledge-base and skills specific to their own sphere of influence to enable family carers to attain optimum health and wellbeing. 

Module code: MDEM4005
Credits: 15

This module also runs from September to January.

In a more inclusive world for people with dementia, attention must be given to the physical and built environment, as well as the social environment. Understanding how opportunities and constraints in any given environment can impact on people with dementia is important to supporting well-being and the citizenship of people living with dementia regardless of where they reside. This module examines the creation of dementia friendly communities, enabling environments in the home and health care settings, as well as the contribution of the person-environment fit to well-being, autonomy and preservation of self and identity. You will explore the environments in which people with dementia live and experience the world, you will examine ways to assess different types of environments and prioritise the findings of assessments in relation to creating opportunities and minimising constraints across different settings. 

Module code: MDEM4006
Credits: 15

This module runs from January to May.

This module is designed to provide in-depth understanding of issues of authentic engagement and empowerment in supporting those living with dementia. There has been a huge shift over recent decades as to how people living with dementia are positioned in society. A citizenship and human rights discourse now prevails in dementia strategy documents including the World Health Organisation Action on Dementia. How this is enacted in people’s day-to day experience remains challenging. You will develop a knowledge-base and skills specific to your  own sphere of influence to enable people with dementia and care partners to promote a citizenship approach.

UK and EU students

The standard tuition fees for part-time UK and EU students enrolling on MA/MSc/MBA/MRes/PG Cert/PG Dip degrees in the academic year 2026/27 are £811 per 15-credit module, £1,081 per 20-credit module, £1,622 per 30-credit module, £2,162 per 40-credit module, £2,433 per 45-credit module and £3,243 per 60 credit module.

Tuition fees are reviewed annually and may increase each year for both new and continuing students.

For more details, please visit our course fees page.

International students

The standard tuition fees for part-time international students enrolling on MA/MSc/MBA/MRes/PG Cert/PG Dip degrees in the academic year 2026/27 are £1,533 per 15-credit module, £3,062 per 30-credit module, £4,600 per 45-credit module and £6,133 per 60-credit module.

Tuition fees are reviewed annually and may increase each year for both new and continuing students.

For more details, please visit our course fees page.