East Anglia based care home provider Athena Care Homes is delivering its dementia awareness training programme at a partner day centre to support residents and the local community.

Five sessions of the Dementia Awareness Training programme are being held at the Forward Day Centre in Kings Lynn.

Lucy Hoddy, Athena’s learning and development manager, said: “When I heard about Forward DC’s interest in our training sessions, I was really excited. The team do an amazing job supporting a wide range of people within our community and this training will benefit lots of people locally, not just in our homes.”

The first training session, which focused on dementia, was recently completed with staff from the Forward team, who were presented with a certificate of completion and box of chocolates, as a thank you from Athena for all they’re doing for residents and the local community.

Steve Fuller, chief executive of Forward, said: “Athena is well known for their high standards of care, so we were delighted to be able to benefit from some of their training. Our staff were very enthusiastic about Athena’s dementia training and fed back that it was well presented, very informative and in depth. Our staff are looking forward to working closely with Athena in the future and taking part in more of their training.”

The two companies hope that this will be the beginning of a long and fruitful partnership, where the adults at Forward Day Centre and the residents of Athena Care Homes can exchange visits, ideas and grow together.