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Nutrition and well-being
- Authors:
- BEN Neil, (Director)
- Publisher:
- BVS
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- (28 mins.), DVD
- Place of publication:
- London
This DVD offers advice and training tips on the preparation and provision of food for service users, as outlined in the National Minimum Standards. It features 'Care Chef of the Year 2007', Patrick Moore, and tackles problems of what constitutes a good diet, nutritional requirements of older people, encouraging service users to enjoy their food, assisting people with dementia to eat and drink and calculating the body mass index. The training material has been constructed to help carers achieve the Skills for Care knowledge set on nutrition and well-being and has been mapped against other induction and educational standards, including S/NVQ Level 2 and 3 in Health and Social Care.
Effective communication 1
- Authors:
- THOMPSON Mark J., (Director)
- Publisher:
- BVS
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- (36 mins.), DVD
- Place of publication:
- London
This DVD contains training material to help care workers understand the nature of communication and to improve their communication skills. The context of this improvement is to better understand and address the needs of service users, specifically in care homes. The basics of communication are analysed, what barriers may exist and the use of various communication aids. The DVD looks at both verbal and non-verbal modes and techniques as well as special communication needs including sight and hearing impaired service users, and in response to challenging behaviours such as dementia or self harm.