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Minimising the use of restraint in care homes for older people: creative approaches
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
Exploring the case of an unsettled new care home resident, this video shows how finding out more about a person’s life story provides clues to new approaches to care. There is an interview with the care home manager who describes what happened in this particular case and how, by providing relevant activities for the resident, it was possible to take him off antipsychotic drug treatment. The National Director of the National Association of Providers of Activities for Older People (NAPA) also encourages care home managers to support their staff in examining routine care practices. Staff can be empowered to look at what is going on and to make creative changes to the care they provide. Other interviews include the Director of Dementia Care for BUPA and the new Clinical Director for Older People.
An introduction to the mental health of older people: the life course approach
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, MILNE Alisoun, GEARING Brian, WARNER Joanne
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Place of publication:
- London
**This learning resource was removed in March 2023.** In this learning object you are introduced to the importance of seeing later life as one phase of an entire course of life from birth to death shaped by earlier life stages and experiences. Meaning and identity are important to mental health in later life and require that we can connect past, present and future in our lives. A highly influential theory of the life course which embodies these themes is the psychosocial theory of Erik Erikson. A life course approach suggests that in order to understand and work effectively with older people we need to see them in the context of their past lives, taking a life story or biographical approach, or through reminiscence.