People with dementia should be able to expect a better quality of life in care homes, where they make up the vast majority of residents. This will require better commissioning, greater self-criticism from providers and more funding, says Alzheimer’s Society chief executive Jeremy Hughes. When you walk into a good care home, it feels warm, [...]
I hope as many of you as possible can join us for this evening’s live online chat on social work under the Mental Capacity Act, which kicks off at 7.30pm. The link above takes you through to the case study we will be discussing, which concerns a woman with advanced dementia who faces discharge from [...]
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 is the most significant piece of legislation for adult social care practice of the past 20 years. Its principles of empowering people to make decisions and acting in their best interests when they are consonant social work values. But five years on from its implementation, how compliant is practice with [...]
Do you recruit staff on the basis of their values as well as their skills? Are opportunities to develop ongoing and embedded in supervision and appraisal? Do you do life story work with all your clients with dementia? Do you have an effective relationship with the families of people with dementia based on sharing information [...]
Care homes are being urged to lay on a tea party for staff and residents to support charity Dementia UK’s annual Time for a Cuppa campaign to raise funds to provide more Admiral nurses for people with dementia and their carers. Admiral nurses are specialist mental health nurses who work with families affected by dementia [...]
Life story work enables staff to look beyond disability and health conditions to see people as individuals and provide truly person-centred care, says Ruth Eley, director of the Life Story Network, in this guest blog post. (Pictured are Jean Tottie, chair of the network, and her father George, whose care home used life story work [...]
This inspiring and remarkably well structured book will suit practitioners, students and trainees looking to gain a deeper and more detailed insight into the ageing process, writes social worker Brid Joy. ‘The psychology of ageing’ explores both existing research and contemporary practice around the psychology of ageing, allowing the reader to get a real picture [...]
This afternoon, a group of people with dementia and their carers will perform a song cycle that they have written themselves, based on paintings on show at Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London. One of the carers, Linda le Merle, says the Visual to Vocal project has been transformative for those involved. When my husband [...]
Both professionals and families have something to learn from each other, writes dementia campaigner and blogger Beth Britton. For too long dementia care has been delivered within a framework of a ‘them and us’ culture, as professionals and families have co-existed in caring for someone with dementia rather than truly working together. A desire to demonstrate supreme [...]
A book on social work with older people offers an in-depth and practical guide for the profession on this complex area of care, writes social worker Brid Joy… Ann McDonald, the author of Social work with older people, sets out to provide an authoritative and practical guide to working with older people in a range [...]
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It is written by Community Care’s adults’ services beat editor Mithran Samuel.
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