Understand how dementia care must be underpinned by a person-centered approach
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Using Person-Centred Thinking to Implement Dementia Care Mapping’ published by Helen Sanderson Associates
- ‘Understanding and supporting a person with dementia’ published by The Alzheimer’s Society
- ‘How to create a daily care plan for someone with dementia’ from the Unforgettable website
- ‘Communication with someone with dementia’ from NHS Choices
- ‘Communication and dementia’ from the Alzheimer’s Society
- ‘The seven areas of wellbeing’ by Dr Caroline Vafeas, Dr Elisabeth Jacob, and Sarah White
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation on ‘Applying a person-centred approach to dementia care’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘The seven areas of wellbeing’.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click on the link to the left to read a journal article by Timothy Epp, from the Canadian Alzheimer Disease Review, April 2003: ‘Person-centred dementia care: a vision to be refined’. Make notes and consider how the points made could be valuable to your work within your setting.
- The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) produced clinical guidelines on ‘Dementia: Supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social care’ in 2006. This was updated in September 2016.
- Dem talk is a dementia toolkit to help those affected by dementia to get more out of life.
- This article is called ‘The last taboo’ and is a guide to dementia, sexuality, intimacy and sexual behaviour in care homes’. It have been produced by the International Longevity Centre – UK.
- This second document is designed to help councils with ‘Delivering Care and Support Planning: Supporting implementation of the Care Act 2014’. It was commissioned by the Department of Health.
- Read the ‘Singing for the brain’ from the Alzheimer’s Society.
- This document from Care UK is called ‘Listen, talk, connect: Communicating with people living with dementia’. It is a guide for carers, relatives and friends.
- Think And Challenge
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