Caring for people with dementia who are living away from home

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Caring for people with dementia who are living
away from home
Adult social services
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Working together to learn from each other
Adult social services

• Increase in dementia care provision
• Commitment to invest in person centred dementia
  care staff development
• Recognition that CSCI have adopted the SOFI tool
  within inspections

• Evaluated pathway of learning (for details
  contact 01603 421541)
• Dementia Care Mapping as the cornerstone
• Commitment to collaborative working
• Development of TED team roles

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Understanding more about the experience of
dementia
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Learning more about the complex picture of
dementia
Dementia Care Mapping Forum
Framework of Learning
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Expert mapper available to support and advise
mappers
Helping people to connect
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Understanding complex care needs
Learning to use Dementia Care Mapping
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What is Dementia Care Mapping?

• An observational tool which Kitwood (1997)
  described as-
• a serious attempt to take the standpoint of the
  person with dementia, using a combination of
  empathy and observational skill .
  

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DCM in practice

• Focuses the team on an individual persons
  experience and needs to form an action plan to
  improve well-being
• Guides and supports the organisation of care away
  from being task centred and towards person
  centred
• Identifies and supports staff training
  development needs

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Workshop Evaluations

• ..I really feel Ive learnt more about
  respecting people
• Ive learnt that we should worry most about the
  quiet ones
• ..Im now conscious that I haven't really been
  listening to people I care for..
• I think I might have better relationships with my
  residents now..

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TED Team contacts

• Mary Aldridge, Lecturer Practitioner
• 01603 421864
• Mary.aldridge_at_nwmhp.nhs.uk
• Judith Farmer, Education Facilitator
• 01603 421840
• Judith.farmer_at_nwmhp.nhs.uk
• Beverley Hallpike, Nurse Consultant
• 01603 421686
• Beverley.hallpike_at_nwmhp.nhs.uk