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Best practice in dementia care - improving the health and wellbeing of older people with mental health needs
- Author:
- POOL Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 1(1), September 2006, pp.16-23.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
People with dementia are people with special needs who rely on organisations with special skills to enable them to experience good health and wellbeing. The Government has recognised this and has launched several initiatives setting out expectations of the standards of service that this client group should receive. Service providers acknowledge the need for these standards, but may be at a loss when planning how to develop a person-centred approach in their daily practice. This article sets out some key differences between a person-centred care service and a non-person-centred one. The summary can be used by managers as a tool for self-audit and organisational development.
The Alzheimer's Society guide to the dementia care environment
- Author:
- POOL Jackie
- Publisher:
- Alzheimers Society
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 115p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The guide provides instrumental guidance and advice on how care home providers can improve the quality of life and care for people with dementia by following simple design rules and principles. The guide covers both the physical and social environment, and how they affect a person's emotional well-being. It describes how the environment can be used to help the person with dementia in different ways and explores how care workers can use such features to help people with dementia engage with the physical and social world.
Making contact: an activity-based model of care
- Author:
- POOL Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 9(4), July 2001, pp.25-26.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Changing the culture of care in an institutional setting is never an easy task. Reports on the success of a care practice development project at Addenbrooke residential home in Gosport, Hampshire.