The dementia course 2025
The Cambridge Dementia Course will run in November and December 2025. The dates will be confirmed in early 2025. The course will be in two parts:
- Late November: a one day online course covering the basics of history-taking, cognitive testing, and common conditions
- Two days in early/mid December: a two day more in-depth and advanced hybrid online and in-person course at the Møller Institute.
We encourage people to attend both parts of the course, though a few people may wish to only attend one part of the course. We think the best experience and chance for discussion is in person, but we recognise that people may wish to join online. You can choose whether you would like to join in person or online during registration, depending on the availability of places (both online and in-person space will be limited).
The course charges will be confirmed alongside the dates. To give you a guide, the 2024 charges were:
- One day (November) online course £45
- Two day (December) online course £100
- Two day (December) in person course £330
Note that this does not include accommodation which must be booked separately.
Given the significant difficulty in obtaining payments from hospital trusts and other organisations, we will ask you to make a payment through an online link. We cannot supply invoices, e.g. for NHS Trusts.
There are online materials for both parts of the course, some of which will be made available prior to the course, and some will be made available following the course. All our presenters make a version of their slides available for download. Any videos or picutres from the presentations, and the videos from the video sessions are not made available.
Given the talks and discussions may contain sensitive material, we do not record any section of the course.
Asking for help
If you have a query about the course, please click here to fill in a help request. We will be in touch with you shortly about any issues.
Signing up for the course
Registration for 2025 is available at the registration page. Once the details are confirmed we will be in touch to confirm your place and arrange payment.
Do register early, previous years have been heavily over-subscribed and our places have been filled by May/June.
Please note that those on the 2024 waiting list will be invited to join the 2025 course, but will still need to sign up via the registration form to be offered a place on the course. If you do not sign up through the link we cannot guarantee a place on the course.
Previous course timetable
To give you an idea of the content, below are the timetables from the 2024 courses. In broad terms, the morning consists of focused lectures, and the afternoon mainly focuses on workshop style sessions.
Online course programme
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 09:30 | Understanding memory and dementia |
| 10:00 | History taking |
| 10:30 | Cognitive testing in the memory clinic |
| 11:00 | Break |
| 11:30 | Neuroimaging |
| 12:00 | Typical and atypical AD |
| 12:30 | Panel discussion/questions |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Mild Cognitive Impairment |
| 14:15 | Subjective memory complaints, functional cognitive disorders, and depression |
| 14:45 | FTD and tauopathies |
| 15:15 | DLB/PDD |
| 15:45 | Break |
| 16:00 | Cases |
Two day December course programme
Day 1
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | Registration and coffee |
Session 1
| Time | Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 09:20 | Welcome, housekeeping | Lecture theatre |
| 09:30 | The neuropathology of dementia | Lecture theatre |
| 10:10 | Biomarkers for neurodegeneration | Lecture theatre |
| 10:40 | Break |
Session 2
| Time | Topic | Room | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Genetics and testing in dementia | Lecture theatre | |
| 11:30 | The primary progressive aphasias | Lecture theatre | |
| 12:00 | Huntington’s disease | Lecture theatre | |
| 12:30 | Prion disease | Lecture theatre | |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
Session 3
Session 3 in-person
| Time | Topic | Room | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Video session | Møller 1 | Møller 2 |
| 14:50 | Neuropsychology | Møller suite | Møller suite |
| 15:40 | Break | ||
| 16:00 | Examination skills | Lecture theatre | Lecture theatre |
| Time | Topic | Room | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Neuropsychology | Møller suite | Møller suite |
| 14:50 | Examination skills | Lecture theatre | Lecture theatre |
| 15:40 | Break | ||
| 16:00 | Video session | Møller 1 | Møller 2 |
| Time | Topic | Room | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Examination skills | Lecture theatre | Lecture theatre |
| 14:50 | Video session | Møller 1 | Møller 2 |
| 15:40 | Break | ||
| 16:00 | Neuropsychology | Møller suite | Møller suite |
Session 3 online
You will be placed into one of three zoom breakout rooms
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| Room 1 | |
| 14:00 | Video session |
| 14:50 | Neuropsychology |
| 15:40 | Break |
| 16:00 | Examination skills |
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| Room 2 | |
| 14:00 | Examination skills |
| 14:50 | Video session |
| 15:40 | Break |
| 16:00 | Neuropsychology |
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| Room 3 | |
| 14:00 | Neuropsychology |
| 14:50 | Examination skills |
| 15:40 | Break |
| 16:00 | Video session |
Session 4
| Time | Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 17:10 | The future of dementia treatments | Lecture theatre |
| 18:00 | Close of the day |
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 19:00 | Drinks reception |
| 19:30 | Formal dinner (pre-booked only) |
Day 2
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 08:30 | Registration and coffee |
Session 1
| Time | Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Inherited white matter disorders | Lecture theatre |
| 09:25 | Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia | Lecture theatre |
| 09:50 | Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Degeneration | Lecture theatre |
| 10:15 | Disease modifying treatments | Lecture theatre |
| 10:40 | Break |
Session 2
| Time | Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Post-diagnostic information | Lecture theatre |
| 11:30 | End of life care in dementia | Lecture theatre |
| 12:00 | Managing multimorbidity in dementia | Lecture theatre |
| 12:30 | Panel discussion: should diagnosis always include biomarker evidence? | Lecture theatre |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
Session 3
Session 3 in-person
| Time | Topic | Room | Room | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Video session | Møller 1 | Møller 2 | |
| 14:50 | Case discussions | Møller suite | Møller suite | |
| 15:40 | Break | |||
| 16:00 | Psychiatric assessment | Lecture theatre | Lecture theatre |
| Time | Topic | Room | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Case discussions | Møller suite | Møller suite |
| 14:50 | Psychiatric assessment | Lecture theatre | Lecture theatre |
| 15:40 | Break | ||
| 16:00 | Video session | Møller 1 | Møller 2 |
| Time | Topic | Room | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Psychiatric assessment | Lecture theatre | Lecture theatre |
| 14:50 | Video session | Møller 1 | Møller 2 |
| 15:40 | Break | ||
| 16:00 | Case discussions | Møller suite | Møller suite |
Session 3 online
You will be placed in one of three zoom breakout rooms.
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| Room 1 | |
| 14:00 | Video session |
| 14:50 | Case discussions |
| 15:40 | Break |
| 16:00 | Psychiatric assessment |
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| Room 2 | |
| 14:00 | Psychiatric assessment |
| 14:50 | Video session |
| 15:40 | Break |
| 16:00 | Case discussions |
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| Room 3 | |
| 14:00 | Case discussions |
| 14:50 | Psychiatric assessment |
| 15:40 | Break |
| 16:00 | Video session |
Session 4
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 17:00 | Designing a memory clinic |
| 17:45 | Close of the day |