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People with MS in long-term care: good practice guidelines for service providers
- Authors:
- RIDLEY Joanna, SMYTH Ann
- Publisher:
- Multiple Sclerosis Society,|Leonard Cheshire
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide highlights the key principles that should underlie the provision of high quality care provision in residential and nursing care homes. The Guide is aimed at managers and owners of Homes and at current and potential service users, their families and friends. It will also be of interest to purchasing and registration authority staff. People with MS often have complex care needs and it is important that staff are appropriately trained to be able to meet these needs. But the key to providing the highest quality of care is recognising and responding to the needs of people as individuals. So, while this Guide focuses on care provision as it might relate to people with MS, it also emphasises that care services within a Home need to meet the full range of physical, clinical, social, spiritual and emotional needs of each individual.
The good practice guide for support workers and personal assistants working with disabled people with communication impairments
- Authors:
- ABEL Pru, et al
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Many disabled people have communication impairments and this has particular implications for helping them to go about their daily lives. This booklet is aimed at personal assistants and support workers who are assisting people with communication impairments and it focuses on just one part of the assistance that is provided, help with communication. The guide: shows how communication is a human right; shares the experience of being a user of personal assistance who also has a communication impairment; shares the experience of being a personal assistant or support worker, working with someone with a communication impairment; offers practical advice from both the point of view of the disabled person and that of the personal assistant/support worker; and also lists the resources available to those working with this group of people