In general, international applicants will need to have achieved an overall IELTS grade of 6.5 with a minimum score of 5.5 in each component.
The MSc Dementia Studies is the only masters' degree in South Wales that specialises in dementia. The MSc Dementia Studies was developed by people living with dementia, family carers, health, social and allied health professionals.
The MSc Dementia Studies course is designed to equip you with the knowledge, skills and aptitude to work with people living with dementia and their carers. This masters degree is for anyone working with people with dementia and their carers in either a professional or volunteering capacity.
Studying this MSc Dementia Studies course will enable you to provide effective care for people living with dementia and their carers.
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YEAR ONE
In the first year, you will study the following modules:
Current Issues in Dementia Practice
The aims of this module are to enhance greater understanding of current issues and professional development in the field of dementia practice. It will also enable students to develop and extend existing knowledge and skill base around contemporary advances in the support of a person affected by dementia and identified carers.
Research Methods
The aims of this module are to provide a comprehensive grounding in research paradigms and methods. It will also critically consider the relationship between the research context, research question, methods and knowledge development.
Living with Dementia
The aims of this module are to critically explore the lived experience of dementia from diagnosis to end of life care and death. The module will also critically reflect on the biopsychosocial, spiritual and political factors influencing the lived experience of dementia
YEAR TWO
The second year critically examines how care should be delivered to improve the health and well-being of people living with dementia and their carers. During this year, you will study the following modules:
Professional, Legal and Ethical Issues in Dementia Practice
The aims of this module are to enable the student to analyse contemporary professional, legal and ethical issues in dementia practice. It will also enable the student to develop and extend knowledge and skills base around relevant professional, legal and ethical issues in the care and support of a person affected by dementia and their carers.
Complexities in Dementia Practice: Interventions and Helping Approaches in Dementia
The aims of this module are to enable students to develop a thorough knowledge and critical understanding of a range of evidence-based therapeutic interventions and helping approaches to work effectively with people living with dementia and their carers. The module will equip students when working with people living with dementia when faced with complexity and change.
Practice Project
This module aims to enable the student to critically explore a key issue identified through their own experience and practice, developing on knowledge and skills acquired through concurrent modules, and making recommendations based on critical evaluation of literature and the student’s own experience
The course is designed to have three exit points:
PGCert - Current issues in Dementia Practice plus one other module in Year One
PGDip - All modules except the Practice Project
MSc - All six modules
The MSc Dementia has been co-produced by people living with dementia, carers, health and social care professionals, and people from the third sector (eg Alzheimer’s Society).
It has also incorporated recent government frameworks in order to ensure that students completing this course are able to demonstrate the knowledge, skills and aptitude required for working with people living with dementia and their carers in a variety of settings.
The MSc Dementia will be useful for those seeking future roles within management (as a masters’ level degree is often a requirement for leadership positions within organisations such as the NHS) or research (as this course may provide opportunities for progression onto postgraduate research degrees such as MPhil/PhD).
Insurance - Single: 300GBP/ year
