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Tag Archives: Relationship-Centred Care
Dementia Pledge: Providing the Best Possible Care (ECCA)
Summary “The Dementia Pledge was created when a group of employers came together with ECCA to develop four key principles that care providers could use to nurture their whole workforce. A commitment to the Dementia Pledge will mean a care … Continue reading
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Management of Condition, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Care Home Culture, Care Homes, Cecilia Yardley (Lewy Body Society and Parkinson’s UK), Crystal Presentations, Crystal Presentations Ltd, Culture, Dementia Pledge, English Community Care Association (ECCA), Equip 4 Change CIC, Lewy Body Society, Positive Culture, Providing the Best Possible Care (ECCA), Relationship-Centred Care, Residential Care Homes, Shaping Culture, Staff Training, Supporting Staff to Care
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Improving Later Life (Age UK)
Summary This electronic book is a compilation of themed insights, each of the sections being written by various experts in their fields, concerning the best evidence available on the main issues in the health and wellbeing of people aged 85 … Continue reading
Posted in Age UK, Assistive Technology, BBC News, Community Care, Depression, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nutrition, Patient Care Pathway, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Abuse of Vulnerable Adults (AVA), Achievement: Six Senses, Action on Elder Abuse, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF), Ageing, Ageing Well, Ageism, Assistive Technology, BBC Health News, Belonging: Six Senses, Care Homes, Care in General Hospitals, Continuity: Six Senses, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Dental Healthcare, Detecting Elder Abuse, Dignity, Dignity and Respect, Dignity Code, Elder Abuse, Empowerment, Enabling Technology, Engagement, Exercise, Eye Health, Fourth Age, General Hospitals, Health and Social Care, Heterogeneity, Hospitals, Incontinence, Independence and Relationships, Living Long, Living Well with Dementia, Loneliness, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Mentally Stimulating Activity in Old Age, Moderate Exercise, Multiple Chronic Disease, Multiple Health Issues, Multiple-Morbidities, National Service Framework (NSF) for Older People, Nonagenarians, Oldest Old, Oldest Old Age (Age UK), Oldest Old in the United Kingdom, Patient Involvement, Personalised Care, Personhood, Physical Exercise Programmes, Preconceptions (Misconceptions), Preparing for a Better Later Life, Preventative Care, Preventing Loneliness, Prevention, Prevention Programmes, Professor Alistair Burns, Purpose: Six Senses, Quality and User Involvement, Regular Exercise, Relationship-Centred Care, Remember the Person, Security: Six Senses, Sedentary Behaviour, Seeing The Person, Senses, Service User Involvement, Significance: Six Senses, Silver Book, Six Senses, Six Senses (Security Belonging Continuity Purpose Achievement Significance), Sleep, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Disturbances, Sleep Fragmentation, Sleeping Problems, Social Care, Social Care Provision, Social Exclusion, Social Inclusion, Social Isolation, Social Life, Social Networks, Social Relationships, The Silver Book, Urinary Incontinence, User Involvement, Whole Person Medicine
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My Home Life: Promoting Quality of Life in Care Homes (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
[A version of this item features in Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust), Volume 3 Issue 4, November 2012]. Summary The“My Home Life: Promoting Quality of Life in Care Homes” report summarises a three-year action research study. … Continue reading
Posted in Age UK, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Advocacy Plus, Best Practice in Care Homes, Care Home Culture, Care Home Leadership, Care Homes, Care Transitions, Centre for Policy on Ageing, City University, City University London, Commission on Dignity in Care, Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People Report, Creating Community, Delivering Dignity, Dementia Care in Care Homes, Dementia UK, Dignity, End of Life Care, Good Practice in Care Homes, Leadership, Leadership for Quality, Maintaining Identity, Managing Transitions, MHL Leadership Support and Community Development Programme, MHL Personalisation Themes, Mike Nolan (Relationship-Centred Care), My Home Life, My Home Life (MHL), National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi), Partnership Working, Quality of Life Indicators, Quality of Life Promotion, Quality of Life Research, Relationship-Centred Care, Rowntree Foundation, Senses Framework, Shared Decision-Making, Staff Motivation, Voice Choice and Control
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Care Homes: Checking Progress in Delivery of Personalised Support for People With Dementia (HSA Press)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 3 Issue 1, August 2012]. Summary This document from HSA Press is intended primarily for managers of care homes supporting people with dementia of all types, … Continue reading
Posted in Alzheimer's Society, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Alternative Futures Group, Care Homes, Common Core Principles for Supporting People with Dementia, David Sheard (Person-Centred Care), Dementia and Social Citizenship, Dementia: Workers and Carers, Eight Common Core Principles for Supporting People with Dementia, Helen Sanderson Associates (HSA), HSA Press (Stockport), HSA: Helen Sanderson Associates, In Control, Lancashire County Council, Mike Nolan (Relationship-Centred Care), National Dementia Declaration, NHS Central Lancashire, NHS Stockport, North West Transition Alliance, Passionate Dementia Care, Personal Choice Programme, Personalised Care, Personalised Support for People With Dementia, Professor Dawn Brooker, Progress for Providers Series, Relationship-Centred Care, Social Citizenship, Supporting People with Dementia (Common Core Principles), Think Local Act Personal, Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), TLAP: Think Local Act Personal, Tom Kitwood, University of Bradford Dementia Group
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Role of Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) in Promoting Person-Centred Dementia Care
[A version of this abstract appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT) Volume 1 Issue 8 March 2011]. Abstract An in-depth observational study of healthcare assistants (HCAs) in dementia wards has been commissioned to identify any workforce issues. This research … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), NIHR, Quick Insights, Universal Interest
Tagged HCAs, Healthcare Assistants, PANICOA, Person-Centred Dementia Care, Person-Centred Dementia Care and Support, Prevention of Abuse and Neglect in the Institutional Care of Older Adults, Relationship-Centred Care
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