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Life story work sees the person beyond the dementia
- Authors:
- BATSON Paul, THORNE Kirsty, PEAK Jennifer
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 10(3), May 2002, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Discusses a project to evaluate life story work, and highlights how it helped care professionals and family carers as well as people with dementia.
Focusing reflecting and exploring how to communicate effectively
- Author:
- ALLAN Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 10(5), September 2002, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The author describes the practical outcomes of her research into how staff can consult with people with dementia.
How DCM feedback procedures can be improved
- Authors:
- MacKENZIE Lorna, JAMES Ian, LEE Leslie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 10(5), September 2002, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Outlines a set of guidelines to improve the feedback provided to staff working in residential homes following a Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) session. The guidelines were developed from the results of two separate studies.
Checks and balances
- Author:
- INMAN Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 17, July 2002, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the the delays in getting police checks processed by the new Criminal Records Bureau and the impact it is having on the ability of care homes to hire new staff.
Experience-based approach to respite care training
- Author:
- JEFFS Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 10(3), May 2002, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Reports on a training initiative for a respite care service for older people and their carers. Staff experienced for themselves the environment they were creating for service users with community and residential care workers living in the respite care setting for five days. Looks at the outcomes of the training and an evaluation of the service.
Adult care
- Author:
- PEACE Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, April 2002, pp.5-10.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Reports on how working conditions of care home staff, and asks whether the measures being taken to raise standards truly address the employment climate the sector currently finds itself in.
Quality of life: what how why?: The view of health care professionals
- Authors:
- McKEVITT Christopher, WOLFE Charles
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 3(1), March 2002, pp.13-19.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Although 'quality of life' is thought to be an important concept in health care, there is a lack of agreement about what this term means. This paper arises a study which made the idea of quality of life itself the object of enquiry. Reports findings from qualitative interviews with 47 health care professionals working with stroke and elderly care patients, which sought their views of the meaning and uses of quality of life. Most defined quality of life in terms of happiness/life satisfaction. Poor health and disability were assumed to reduce quality of life; interviewees represented their work as aiming to improve patient quality of life through improving health. Most regarded formal quality of life measurement as a research tool but not feasible or appropriate in routine care. However, conversations and observations of patients and carers were represented as informal ways of judging patient quality of life, and were generally regarded as a useful or essential part of the therapeutic relationship. Such assessments were said to take place routinely and to provide opportunities for patients/cares to express their wishes, and for 'real' patient needs to be identified. This runs counter to evidence of low levels of patient/carer participation in decision-making and discharge. The real value of the quality of life concept remains unproven but we suggest that in the context our interviews it was used by professionals to reflect on the nature of the therapeutic encounter and to articulate ideas about health care practice.
Stress and strain of moving
- Authors:
- WYLD Cynthia, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.4.02, 2002, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a study examining the reactions of residents, relatives and staff to changes caused by a temporary relocation when residential homes have been rebuilt or refurbished.
On the homes front: the Catholic Church and residential care for older people
- Author:
- PHILPOT Terry
- Publisher:
- Caritas Social Action
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report highlighted the need for more imaginative responses by religious congregations to the residential care of older people. The cultural needs of older people - faith, ethnicity and spirituality was an important part of harnessing the potential of the whole community as the older population in care would steadily rise to 4 million by 2050.
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.