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Improving services for older people: staff development in dementia care
- Author:
- FRASER Mary
- Publisher:
- Stanley Thornes
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 134p.
- Place of publication:
- Cheltenham
Examines the role of staff education and training for carers working with people with dementia in the context of the business of running a care home. Demonstrates how effective education programmes can significantly enhance the quality of care provided for residents and, by adding to the quality of the overall care package delivered, can also contribute to good business practice. Based on practical work conducted in care homes, provides guidelines for the implementation of life long learning strategies which will be of benefit to staff, residents and employers.
The APEX partnership charter for nursing and residential home owners
- Author:
- O'DONOGHUE Dolores
- Publisher:
- GMB
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets out care provision policies aimed at ensuring quality care, and stressing the importance of staff training.
Establishment programme plans
- Author:
- WIENER Ron
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 1(4), October 1992, pp.25-31.
Describes the development of Establishment Programme Plans as a key element in building quality into Northumbria SSD's residential and day care establishments for adults, in particular a training programme for officers-in-charge and managers aimed at enabling them to translate departmental values into operational guidelines, procedures and practices.
Home care services for older people: findings from a national survey of social care commissioners
- Authors:
- HUGHES Jane, CHESTER Helen, CHALLIS David
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 30(1), 2013, pp.51-64.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
This paper explores local authority commissioning and contracting arrangements for home care, staff training opportunities and the range of services provided for older people utilising data from a national postal survey with a 74 per cent response rate. Local authority provision focused on intermediate care services. Joint commissioning of this with health was common but less likely for specialist mental health services. Most home care was commissioned from and provided by independent sector providers with contractual requirements identified as a means of influencing and monitoring training opportunities. A range of services were provided for users, additional to personal care. Local authority training was sometimes available to independent providers, focused on statutory requirements rather than user needs. Implications for the development of high quality services are discussed in terms of user need, service flexibility and training for staff providing direct care. It is suggested that within the commissioning process key drivers of the development of more personalised high quality home care services are: regular dialogue with service providers; greater health and social care involvement in a joint commissioning process; alignment of contracting arrangements to reflect service outcomes; and specification of training requirements within the setting and monitoring of home care contracts. (Publisher abstract)
The effects of enhanced program review and staff training on the management of aggression among clients in a long-term neurobehavioral rehabilitation program
- Authors:
- NAREVIC Egle, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 15(1), January 2011, pp.103-112.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This study investigated the effects of staff training, staff support groups, and increased client behaviour monitoring on physical aggression toward peers and objects. Data were collected for 267 older clients treated in a long-term neurorehabilitation programme in the San Francisco Bay area over 15 months. During this time, programmatic enhancements were introduced including: staff training and support groups; individualised programme development; and client-centred weekly and systemic monthly behaviour management reviews. Incidents of physical aggression were assessed using staff reports. The clients had neurobehavioral disability of various origins, 73% had a psychiatric diagnosis in addition to one or more medical diagnoses, and 58% had a dementia diagnosis. The number of physical aggression per client per month was reduced by 77% following the implementation of programmatic enhancements. Overall, the enhanced systematic behavioural review of clients along with staff training and on-going staff support groups reduced the incidents of behavioural problems in older people with psychiatric problems and neurobehavioral disabilities.
Drive to raise standards of dementia care in care homes
- Author:
- VAUGHAN Janette
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Nurse, 17(5), January 2002, p.316.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on the Alzheimer's Society's new quality care standards and its Care Homes Forum, which are both targeted at helping homes improve their quality of dementia care and enabling them to offer staff better training.
Mapping out the framework
- Authors:
- INNES Anthea, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 8(2), March 2000, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Summarises the way the Dementia Care Mapping method has developed over the last ten years, and sets out Bradford Dementia Group's framework for DCM users and trainers.
Residential care for adults
- Author:
- KELLY Des
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, October 1996, pp.63-66.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
National standards in residential care, adequate staff training and the participation of users in the way homes are run have been campaigned for, discussed, researched and inquired into for years. Describes how now there may be light at the end of the tunnel.
Values into action: tools for development and training
- Author:
- PAYNE Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Practice and Staff Development, 4(2), January 1995, pp.57-80.
- Publisher:
- PEPAR Publications
Summarises a number of packages that have a common aim of establishing a sound value base for services, particularly for older people and adults with learning difficulties and mental health problems.
Staff hold the key to quality
- Author:
- NETTEN Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 2(4), July 1994, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Reports on research which examined which factors improved the quality of care in a residential or nursing home. The research showed a clear link between in-service training, higher motivation and better care.