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Putting care right: your guide to choosing a care home
- Author:
- ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- Alzheimer's Society
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide features the essential issues to consider when deciding on a care home for a person with dementia. It lists questions families can put to care home staff and includes blank pages for notes on the places they visit. This guide raises the crucial questions everyone should ask about care homes. It will also help people to understand how to recognise quality care and help them to start demanding the high standards of care that people with dementia deserve. The charity’s survey found a third of people over 55 have experience of looking for care homes, but nationwide more than more than four out of ten people admit they would not know what to look for in a good care home. Skilled staff appear to be more important than a nicely decorated room when it comes to deciding on the quality of residential care. A choice of activities and access to outside space was also rated as important by more than 94 per cent of people.
Quality dementia care in care homes: person centred standards
- Authors:
- ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY, ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
- Publisher:
- Alzheimer's Society
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 147p.
- Place of publication:
- London
These standards are about achieving good quality care for people with dementia living in care homes and are the result of a one year development partnership between the Alzheimer's Society and the Royal College of Nursing. The topics in the standards were selected because they were found to be areas of most importance to people with dementia living in a care home and their families and friends. While containing a great deal of practical information, the standards are also designed to try to get care staff to think about all aspects of life and care in a care home from the person with dementia's point of view. The standards attempt to draw together key developments in person centred care over the past years and capture how they might translate into high quality care. They are aimed at anyone involved in the provision of dementia care in a residential setting and are arranged under the following headings: person centred dementia care; staff; care processes; life in the home; relationships; and environment.