NeuroMassage for Dementia and Alzheimer’s
Coming soon. A specialist online course for qualified massage therapists who want to work safely and confidently with people living with dementia. Built around the Calm Contact Approach™.
Why Learn Massage for Dementia?
More and more of your clients are living with dementia, or caring for someone who is. Massage can support comfort and relaxation, but only when it is adapted to the person and how they are experiencing the world that day.
This course shows you how. You’ll learn how dementia affects the person, how to gain consent when capacity changes, how to communicate, and how to respond calmly when a session doesn’t go to plan.
Understand Dementia
The main types of dementia, how it changes the brain, and how each stage may shape a massage session.
Communicate and Connect
Verbal and non-verbal strategies, working with families and carers, and using predictability to build trust.
Work Safely and Professionally
Consent and capacity, recognising pain, safeguarding, and working in clinics, care homes, clients’ homes and hospice settings.
What You’ll Learn on This Dementia Course
A self-paced online course in 7 modules.
- What dementia is and how it differs from normal ageing
- The main types of dementia and how each may influence a session
- How the stages of dementia shape your treatment planning
- Supported consent and working with fluctuating capacity
- Reading verbal and non-verbal signs of comfort and discomfort
- Recognising possible pain in clients who can’t easily tell you
- Communicating with the person, and with families and carers
- Understanding changes in behaviour and responding calmly
- Adapting positioning, pressure, pace and touch
- Working across clinics, care homes, home visits and hospice settings
Course modules
1. What Do I Need to Know About Dementia?
2. How Do I Work Safely?
3. How Do I Communicate?
4. What Do I Do When Things Change?
5. How Do I Deliver Massage in Practice?
6. How Do I Work Professionally?
7. Developing Your Practice
The Calm Contact Approach™
The course is built around our Calm Contact Approach™, a clear framework that helps you plan and adapt each session to the person in front of you, at every stage of dementia.
Who is it for?
Qualified massage therapists (Level 4 preferred, Level 3 considered) who work with, or want to work with, people living with dementia, in clinic, at home or in care settings.
Price: Coming soon. Join the waitlist to be the first to hear.
Want to start now? Our NeuroMassage courses for other neurological conditions are open for enrolment.
This course is professional education for qualified massage therapists. It does not provide medical qualifications or train you to diagnose or treat dementia. Massage is offered as a complementary approach that may support comfort and wellbeing alongside medical and care teams.