Training, support and the dynamics of everyday practice in a residential care home.
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Penny Johns
Dementia Practitioner
Jewish Care
Summary
An evaluation of a pilot study to explore how the Focused Intervention Training and Support (FITS) into Practice approach (Brooker et al, 2016), can be applied within one specialist dementia residential care home which has recently adopted the DementiAbility Approach to person-centred care (Elliott, O’Neill & Dempsey, 2016). Using this model can a team of DementiAbility Champion Coaches (DCCs) be a catalyst for person centred care to ‘bubble up’ from the location of practice, embedding and sustaining the DementiAbility Approach? Can training and support improve quality of life for people living with dementia beyond a reduction in antipsychotic prescribing and to what extent did a shift to person-centred care occur? What are the barriers and facilitators at local micro level, organisational meso level and structural macro level?
Brooker, D., Latham, I., Evans, S., Jacobson, N., Perry, W., Bray, J., Ballard, C., Fossey, J. and Pickett, J. (2016) ‘FITS into practice: translating research into practice in reducing the use of anti-psychotic medication for people with dementia living in care homes’, Aging & Mental Health, 20(7), pp. 709–718.
Elliott, G., O’Neill, J. and Dempsey, M., (2016) Checklist for Change, 2nd edn. DementiAbility Enterprises, Burlington ON.
Harvey, G. and Kitson, A. (2016) ‘PARIHS revisited: from heuristic to integrated framework for the successful implementation of knowledge into practice’, Implementation science, 11(1), pp. 1 - 13.