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Hearts on their sleeves

Understanding, addressing and managing the causes of stress and arousal in relation to the onset of mental health difficulties within children and their families.

Violence and anti-social behaviour are the most common reasons cited for the exclusi....

The Patient's Day

At St. Benedict’s Hospice we wanted to develop a way of working that is patient led and structured around the patient’s day instead of how the present Multi Disciplinary Team (MDT) chose to deliver their care – truly putting patients and families at ....

Caring for Carers

In working on Cove Ward, a 20 bedded older persons unit that offers assessment for clients in crisis with dementia. We realised that there was a need to support patients, carers and families at this distressing time. We wanted to give them informatio....

A person-centred approach to moving to a new purpose-built care home

We were moving to a new purpose-built residential care home for elderly residents with mental health issues and dementia, and we wanted to actively engage residents in the home’s designs, decoration and fixtures and fittings.
In engaging our servic....

Ensuring that people with dementia have choice

Found evidence that clients with dementia were not being given the same options/choices which were available to others within the care home. More specifically; menu choices and personal hygiene cares. For example; I noticed that all clients on the de....

Setting up an older person's LGBT group

Older LGBT people can find living in sheltered housing a lonely experience. An older lesbian tenant spoke at one of Anchor's national tenant forum meetings about how she was worried about coming out in her scheme for fear of rejection by other tenant....

Admiral Nursing in Dementia Care

The Admiral Nursing service offer a specialist nursing service working with people of all ages with dementia and their carers – the primary emphasis is on the carer as the client and treating them and their relative’s/patients with dignity.
We aim t....

Dignity For All

Our project was about the promotion and development of the Dignity in Care ethos across Eastern & Coastal Kent Community Services.

Focus on Mealtimes

The Focus on Mealtimes project was initially driven by the need to improve, across Warwickshire, standards on mealtime provision in Care Homes as a result of the CSCI thematic inspections and subsequent report ‘Highlight of the Day’.

Following th....

Person Centred Care For All

At Sycamore Court a residential home for 12 service users, where we also provide domiciliary support for a number of other residents, as we sought to enhance our dignity upholding care we recognised this could be facilitated by adopting a more person....