NCFE CACHE Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Dementia Care

You need to be aged 19 or over at the start of the cur­rent aca­d­e­m­ic year to be able to enrol on one of our Dis­tance Learn­ing courses.

You will also need to be work­ing at or above Lev­el 1 in English.

We will assess your lev­el of Eng­lish before we enrol you onto the course and can sign­post you to our Func­tion­al Skills Eng­lish cours­es to upskill if necessary.

On suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of this qual­i­fi­ca­tion, you could progress to: 

• Lev­el 3 Cer­tifi­cate in Prepar­ing to Work in Adult Social Care
• Lev­el 3 Diplo­ma in Health and Social Care (Adults) for England

To be award­ed the Lev­el 2 Cer­tifi­cate in the Prin­ci­ples of Demen­tia Care, learn­ers are required to suc­cess­ful­ly com­plete 7 units: 

• Unit 01 Demen­tia awareness
• Unit 02 The per­son-cen­tred approach to the care and sup­port of indi­vid­u­als with dementia
• Unit 03 Under­stand equal­i­ty, diver­si­ty and inclu­sion in demen­tia care
• Unit 04 Under­stand the admin­is­tra­tion of med­ica­tion to indi­vid­u­als with demen­tia using a per­son-cen­tred approach
• Unit 05 Under­stand the fac­tors that can influ­ence com­mu­ni­ca­tion and inter­ac­tion with indi­vid­u­als who have dementia
• Unit 06 Under­stand behav­iour in the con­text of dementia
• Unit 07 Under­stand the ben­e­fits of engag­ing in activ­i­ties in social care