ONLINE LEARNING – Knowing about DSI is even more urgent with COVID-19

Free Online Learning
Knowing about DSI is even more urgent with COVID-19 – take our free online course

Free Online Learning

Thanks to the support of the National Lottery Community Fund we are able to provide practical, free online learning to help you understand and, during these most challenging of times, safely support and communicate with someone with Dual Sensory Impairment.

Learn How To:

spot the signs of DSI, understand the impact this has on your elderly relative or neighbour, customer or service user, patient or care home resident.
Learn practical steps to improve communication, to make information more accessible and find out where to for local help and advice.

This will help ensure some of our most vulnerable elderly people are kept safe during this emergency.

FAST, FLEXIBLE LEARNING

Complete your online learning in one go, 60 minutes, or do it in short “bites” to fit your work and life. Revisit sections as often as you wish. On successful completion you can access your CPD certificate.

Online Learning Offers:

Online Learning Is:

EASY TO USE, PACKED WITH CONTENT

Our flexible online learning course is packed with practical information including colourful video simulations to help you understand the impact of major eye conditions, audio simulations to help you understand the impact of major hearing conditions, short quizzes to help you check your progress, tips on communication, and the Hi-VisUK identification toolkit.

Lots of people think of being unable to hear well and having trouble seeing things clearly as just part of getting older. But we don’t think about it until  this gradual wear and tear, this part of ageing, impacts on everything we do.

WHY YOU SHOULD LEARN ABOUT DSI

STOP for a moment and think about the simple things you do every day. How you would do these when your hearing and sight are both really getting worse?

From when we wake up until we go to sleep we use our senses, as our senses deteriorate we risk losing the confidence to do  key parts of daily life:

Without advice and support, we will lose these abilities. We will become isolated and lonely as we slowly lose our independence and contact with others.

But with advice and guidance from trained, qualified and experienced people we can learn how to successfully manage the way wear and tear affects every one of us, now and when it changes.

WITH DSI YOU RISK LOSING
- Mobility, our ability and confidence to get around, go places, when we want
- Access information, our ability to read, use our mobiles, hear people talking
- Communication, our ability to connect with others, be part of the conversation

Easy to use for Beginners and Pros, Young and Old

JOIN OUR LEARNING COMMUNITY!

We would love to welcome you to our  Hi-VisUK learning community! We have made it to help you to discover more about age-related dual sensory loss and how it impacts on daily life.

Whether you are an older person, a carer or care sector professional, a clinician, social work professional, a student, someone looking for a new career or an employer you will find information and advice in our online learning, that will help you as an individual and in your professional life.

WE ARE

We are the national charity that specialises in supporting all the key workers and volunteers and their organisations who provide care and support to elderly people.