Be able to involve carers and others in supporting individuals with dementia
Watch ‘Living with dementia – the carer’ produced by Blackpool Teaching Hospital. Think about how Jack’s dementia has impacted his wife’s life.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Dementia: assessment, management and support for people living with dementia and their carers’ from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
- ‘The carer's assessment: support for carers’ from the Alzheimer's Society.
- ‘Carers: looking after yourself’ from the Alzheimer's Society.
- ‘Care planning, involvement and person-centred care’ from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).
- ‘Dealing with concerns from people who use care services’ from the SCIE
- ‘Working alongside carers of people with dementia’ from the SCIE
- ‘Making decisions for a person with dementia who lacks mental capacity’ by the Alzheimer’s Society
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ‘Supporting carers of people with advanced dementia: The importance of good support in the later stages’ from the Social Care Institute for Excellence.
- Click on the link to read “’Northing ventured, nothing gained’: Risk guidance for people with dementia” produced by the Department of Health. Personalisation is about positioning choice, control and independence with the individual and it is within this context that this guidance is applied to everyone involved in supporting persons with dementia to enable them to take a proportionate, measured and enabling approach to risk.
- Read this leaflet published by Office of the Public Guardian called ‘Making decisions: a guide for people who work in health and social care’
- Think And Challenge
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