Golden Oldies – Recognising and Supporting Patients with Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome (CDS)

With a growing population of senior pet’s, it is crucial that veterinary practice teams can identify, and effectively manage, these patients in practice. Unfortunately, clients often struggle to spot the signs of cognitive dysfunction syndrome and may be fearful to discuss any concerns with the veterinary team, due to a limited awareness of available management options. Having the confidence and knowledge to deal with these cases in practice, and provide the right support to clients, is therefore crucial, to improve the quality of life of senior pets.

Webinar Aims:

To review CDS as a disease process
To raise awareness of CDS within vet teams and to clients
To help identify and recognise signs of CDS in elderly cats and dogs
To enhance your confidence in offering suitable advice
To provide you with a range of strategies to improve the quality of life (QoL) for senior pets
To enhance animal welfare
To improve the human animal bond
To further the vet-client relationship

Speaker bio
Caroline Clark

Caroline is an experienced RVN, ABTC registered clinical animal behaviourist (CAB) and full member of the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors. Drawing on her experience as a practicing registered veterinary nurse, Caroline began seeing behaviour cases in 2006 after
completing a post graduate diploma in companion animal behaviour counselling at Southampton University.

Caroline now focusses exclusively on veterinary referrals from her clinic based in North Yorkshire and nationally, via video consultations, where she primarily sees dogs and cats, but also helps parrots and other companion animals. Caroline is also the founder of Pet Education and Training Courses, offering a range of online and face-to-face accredited CPD courses and mentoring programmes for veterinary teams and other animal professionals. Her first book: Fear and Anxiety in Dogs was published in 2022 and her second: Demystifying Feline Behaviour, was released in October 2024.

From everyone at VetPlus, we hope you enjoy this insightful webinar session and gain some useful tips and tricks, to support golden oldies in your practice!