Developing Excellent Care for People Living with Dementia in Care Homes
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Developing Excellent Care for People Living with Dementia in Care Homes

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Developing Excellent Care for People Living with Dementia in Care Homes

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The award-winning PEARL (Positively Enriching and enhancing Residents' Lives) programme was developed to enable care homes to move from providing good fundamental care to excellent person-centred dementia care. Trialled extensively by one of the UK's largest care providers, it has been proven to dramatically increase the quality of life of people with dementia living in care homes, significantly reducing the use of antipsychotics and the incidence of stress-related behaviours.

This concise and accessible guide, written by the Director of Dementia Care at the care provider which trialled and developed PEARL, describes the key criteria of the programme, and provides best practice guidelines for dementia care practitioners wishing to use the approach in their own care home. With an emphasis on the practical, achievable elements of the programme, and drawing on many useful examples, the author and contributors provide guidelines on, amongst many things, getting the fundamentals of person-centred care right; enabling decision-making; reducing stress-related behaviours; psychosocial treatments; safeguarding; supporting staff; and involving relatives.

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Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
9781784500535
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Nursing

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Other Books in the Series
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword by Professor Murna Downs
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 Person-centred Care in Practice
  10. Chapter 2 Nothing About Me Without Me
  11. Chapter 3 Life Story and Lifestyle
  12. Chapter 4 Person-centred Planning
  13. Chapter 5 Getting the ‘Fundamentals’ Right
  14. Chapter 6 Making the Most of Mealtimes
  15. Chapter 7 Reducing Distressed Reactions
  16. Chapter 8 Reviewing the Use of Anti-psychotic Medication
  17. Chapter 9 Developing the Environment: Providing a Supportive Environment
  18. Chapter 10 Supporting Staff
  19. Chapter 11 Proactive Analysis and Follow-through
  20. Chapter 12 Celebrating Success
  21. References
  22. Index
  23. Also available