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Minimising the use of restraint in care homes for older people: exploring restraint
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
This video explores the issue of restraint and how good practice can strike a balance between care and support with managing safety and risk. Four scenarios are enacted which explore episodes familiar to many care home staff: a resident trying to leave a care home, preventing someone from getting up from a chair, waking at night and getting ready for a meal. Two experts on restraint, Ann McFarlane and Tracy Paine, discuss why it is vital to find out as much as possible about the person so as to understand why they are behaving in a particular way and to gather clues as to how to their preferences and needs can be met. They make the case for good design in care homes, for letting residents live as much as possible in their own time frames and for residents' committees. [This film has been reviewed and is no longer available to view.]
Minimising the use of restraint in care homes for older people: making decisions
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
In this film, three experts – an occupational therapist, a care home adviser who is a co-author of a report on restraint and a geriatrician discuss the complex issue of restraint in care homes. Each expert discusses a different aspect of restraint, considering how care home staff can balance the duty to care with the need to protect residents. To minimise the use of restraint and to help residents live the life they want to achieve, care home staff need to find out about the individuals in their care. Through dialogue and negotiation, they can help residents to exercise choice. The Mental Capacity Act provides a useful framework for decision making and this is explained in full. Note: This film is no longer available to view.
The missing million: in search of the loneliest in our communities
- Author:
- CAMPAIGN TO END LONELINESS
- Publisher:
- Campaign to End Loneliness
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 62
- Place of publication:
- London
A guide to help commissioners and service providers to develop ways of identifying older people experiencing loneliness or who are at risk of being lonely. Section one identifies methods of identifying older people who may be at risk of loneliness. These include top down approaches which use available data and data mapping to identifying geographical areas likely to contain more people at risk; and bottom up approaches, which draw on the local knowledge and capacity of communities to identify and engage with older people experiencing loneliness in their area. Section two illustrates how these different methods can be used and provides case studies to show how they have been used successfully by other organisations. Section three provides advice to help staff and volunteers to speak to people at risk of loneliness in a way that can bring about positive change. It shows the importance of using empathy, openness and respect when holding conversations and also taking a problem-solving approach to help people identify and plan their own solutions. Each section includes summary learning points and provides advice to help providers and commissioners to help change their ways of working. The report makes 10 key recommendations for service providers and commissioners. (Edited publisher abstract)
Learning disability today: key issues for providers, managers, practitioners and users
- Editors:
- CARNABY Steven, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 218p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
Introduction to some of the central issues in the lives of people with learning difficulties and the people who support them. It provides context, underpinning knowledge and practical strategies for giving care and support that promotes rights, independence, choice and inclusion. Includes understanding approaches to learning disability; policy and legislation; understanding and developing anti oppressive practice; protecting people from abuse; assessing and managing risk; understanding and promoting communication; handling information and keeping records; undertaking assessment and promoting communication; enabling and supporting community involvement; understanding and promoting advocacy and decision making; sexuality; access to health care and supporting healthy lifestyles; working with people with profound and multiple learning difficulties; supporting people with challenging behaviour; mental health; managing change, transition and loss; and supporting older people with learning difficulties.
Learning disability today: key issues for providers, managers, practitioners and users
- Editor:
- CARNABY Steven
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 276p.,illus.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Introduction to some of the central issues in the lives of people with learning difficulties and the people who support them. It provides context, underpinning knowledge and practical strategies for giving care and support that promotes rights, independence, choice and inclusion. Includes chapters on: understanding approaches to learning disability; policy and legislation; understanding and developing anti oppressive practice; protecting people from abuse; assessing and managing risk; understanding and promoting communication; handling information and keeping records; undertaking assessment and promoting communication; enabling and supporting community involvement; understanding and promoting advocacy and decision making; sexuality; access to health care and supporting healthy lifestyles; working with people with profound and multiple learning difficulties; supporting people with challenging behaviour; mental health; managing change, transition and loss; and supporting older people with learning difficulties. Illustrated throughout with case studies.
A taste for independence
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.11.99, 1999, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Talks to a social worker, who was presented with a situation where a client was at risk being in her own home after a stroke left her with severe impairment, but also at risk being transferred to a nursing home where it was unlikely that her language or cultural needs would be met. Reports on how the situation was resolved.
Can we risk person-centred communication
- Author:
- GIBSON Faith
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 7(5), September 1999, pp.20-24.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
In this first annual Tom Kitwood Memorial Address, the author considers whether we dare risk real communication with the person with dementia. Argues that we are morally bound to use all our knowledge, skills and feelings in the cause of person-centred communication.
The sorrows of siblings
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.6.99, 1999, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author talks to a social worker who had to balance the needs of an elderly patient diagnosed as having Alzheimer's Disease with the conflicting wishes of non-communicating siblings.