Carers Training
There’s strong evidence that many carers are unaware of their rights, and this lack of knowledge may be a barrier to accessing vital support. We offer free, accessible training for unpaid carers of people with dementia to ensure they have a greater understanding of their rights and how to access them.
In 2024, we were awarded funding from the National Lotteries Communities Fund. This has enabled us to develop our work supporting unpaid carers. As well as continuing to offer our range of carers' rights workshops for individuals, community groups and carer organisations, we will be engaging further with carers to learn where there are gaps in training in order to develop new workshops.
Current topics for our friendly, interactive workshops include:
An Introduction to carers' rights
The Carers (Act) Scotland 2016, with a focus on Adult Carer Support Plans
Hospital admissions and discharge
Self-Directed Support
Power of Attorney and other advance decision making
Welfare benefits and income maximisation for carers
Residential Care Costs
How to take part
We recognise that carers are often busy people, so our scheduled workshops will last a maximum of 90 minutes, and we send out follow-up information to all our attendees.
Please get in touch with the dementia training team at dementiatraining@agescotland.org.uk if you have any questions, would like to book a training session, or you would like to be added to a workshop waitlist.
Interested in more dementia training?
Find out more about the extensive dementia and carers training on offer at Age Scotland