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Health and social care professionals will benefit from an understanding of cognition, which can then be applied to strategies within their work. The course will be a half-day course covering the domains of cognition &#8211; attention, working memory, memory and executive function with opportunities for discussion around applications to delegates&#8217; work. This will include strategies to support people optimise or adapt for challenges to their cognition. 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