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Putting the past into the present
- Author:
- READ Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 123(6365), 6 September 2013, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
The author explains how learning about key episodes in history that dementia sufferers have lived through, is just one way of truly empathising with them. (Publisher abstract)
Diagnostic communication in the memory clinic: a conversation analytic perspective
- Author:
- PEEL Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 19(12), 2015, pp.1123-1130.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Whether and how patients should be told their dementia diagnosis, has been an area of much debate. While there is now recognition that early diagnosis is important for dementia care little research has looked at how dementia-related diagnostic information is actually verbally communicated. The limited previous research suggests that the absence of explicit terminology (e.g., use of the term Alzheimer's) is problematic. This paper interrogates this assumption through a conversation analysis of British naturalistic memory clinic interaction. (Edited publisher abstract)
Sporting memories, dementia care and training staff in care homes
- Authors:
- CLARK Michael, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health Training Education and Practice, 12(1), 2017, pp.55-66.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the findings from a pilot and a follow-on study in which care assistants in care homes were trained to use sporting memories work to better help and engage with residents with dementia and low mood. Care homes have to support increasingly more fragile people and often the range of activities in the homes do not offer the best engagement between residents and staff to benefit the residents. This is for reasons of time to run activities in a busy home, and because of the need to find financially viable means of running a range of activities. Care assistants in care homes are a group of non-professionally educated workers and are often overlooked for training beyond basic health and safety training to help them improve their work and the care they provide. This work sought to explore whether sporting memories work was viable as an activity to offer in care homes via the training of care assistants. Design/methodology/approach: The paper discusses the evidence from a pilot and then follow-on project in care homes in one city area. In the pilot observation was made of a training session and follow up interviews were undertaken with care home managers to see how the implementation of sporting memories was going. In the follow-on project the support to those undertaking the training was modified to include three learning network sessions. Data were collected on the experience of participants and their use of sporting memories work. Findings: The findings were that care assistants could be trained in using sporting memories work and they often found it easy to use and fulfilling for them and people they cared for. This was despite the care assistants who participated often not having much interest in sports and little experience in this kind of work. However, practical barriers to maintaining the use of sporting memories work did remain. Research limitations/implications: The evidence to date is of case studies of training staff in care homes in the use of sporting memories work, which provides good grounding for proof of the concept and key issues, but further research is needed on the costs and impacts of sporting memories work in care homes. The lack of direct feedback about experiences of care home residents of sporting memories work and its impact on them is a further limitation. Practical implications: Sporting memories work is a flexible and readily adoptable intervention to engage older people in care homes and the evidence to date is that care assistants in care homes can be trained to use this approach to engaging older people. Practical challenges still remain to using sporting memories work in care homes, notably the issue of time for staff to do the work, but it is an approach for care homes to have available to them to match up to the interests of residents. Social implications: Sporting memories work can be an important part of meeting some of the challenges society faces with an ageing population profile and to enhancing the care home environment and care assistants can be trained to use the approach. Originality/value: This is the first paper to discuss training care home staff in the use of sporting memories work. (Publisher abstract)
A survey of views on assessment, management and service provision for people with Korsakoff's Syndrome and other chronic alcohol related brain damage in Scotland
- Authors:
- JAQUES Alan, ANDERSON Kate
- Publisher:
- University of Stirling. Dementia Services Development Centre
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
Individuals diagnosed with Korsakoff's syndrome usually have symptoms of anterograde and retrograde amnesia, or severe memory loss, as well as confabulation, that is, invented memories which are then taken as true due to gaps in memory sometimes associated with blackouts. Conditions resulting in the vitamin deficiency and its effects include chronic alcoholism, and severe malnutrition. Alcoholism is often an indicator of poor nutrition, which in addition to inflammation of stomach lining, causes thiamine deficiency. As well as alcohol abuse, causes include dietary deficiencies, prolonged vomiting, eating disorders, or the effects of chemotherapy.
Specialist services in early diagnosis and support for older people with dementia in England: staff roles and service mix
- Authors:
- AHMED Saima, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 33(9), 2018, pp.1280-1285.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Objectives: This study investigated staff roles and tasks in Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT) and memory clinics, which are provided within a framework determined by local Clinical Commissioning Groups. Methods: A cross‐sectional survey design was used to collect data in England in 2015. Teams were identified by mental health providers (n = 68) and invited to complete a questionnaire. Results: Fifty‐one NHS Trusts responded to the request. The response rate varied. Data were obtained for all Clinical Commissioning Groups areas in 3 of the 9 regions in England, but only half in one of them. CMHTs were significantly more likely to have larger staff groups. Compared with memory clinics they were also more likely to have staff that were not professionally qualified. The occupational therapist role showed a strong association with the provision of all services in CMHTs. Both CMHTs and memory clinics provided information and advice about dementia. CMHTs provided more services associated with the support of a person with dementia at home. Conclusion: Variations in the staff mix in CMHTs and memory clinics reflected their different functions. There was limited evidence in both of profession specific interventions relating to the provision of support, information, therapy and education, associated with either diagnosis or long‐term support. The potential for a single service to undertake both diagnostic and long‐term support and the associated costs and benefits are areas for future research. (Edited publisher abstract)
A cognitive perspective on training in care homes
- Authors:
- JAMES Ian, POWELL Ian, KENDELL Katherine
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 11(3), May 2003, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Looks at the benefits of training which looks at care assistants and their work with people with dementia from a cognitive perspective. The article looks at potential information processing, group and social biases that are likely to influence staff working in residential homes for older people with mental health problems. Highlights the importance of these factors when trainers are working with staff to promote the wellbeing of their residents.