Article Category: Training/Education

Can a clinical audit improve communication?

Joe Herzberg, Richard Reynolds and Melanie King explain how a series of clinical audits was used as the basis for training staff on a continuing care ward about good communication with people with dementia Author/s: Joe Herzberg, Richard Reynolds, Melanie King For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The...

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Behind the scenes: making a fiction film on dementia

A creative film can leave a powerful impression on viewers, but the road to making it is long. Here Errollyn Bruce and Andrea Capstick describe the making of Ex Memoria, a film about an older woman with dementia living in a care home. Author/s: Errollyn Bruce, Andrea Capstick For the full article please see the...

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Champions for a good cause: quality care

Gloria Haynes describes one organisation’s efforts to have ‘champions’ in all its homes. Author/s: Gloria Haynes For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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Making contact with those close to death

In the second of three articles on the Good Sunset Project, John Killick and Kate Allan describe the Getting Through Initiative, which aimed to reach individuals with advanced dementia and those close to death Author/s: John Killick, Kate Allen For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC...

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Early identification of dementia in primary care

Laura Sanger, Kath Bland and Claire Short describe how they assessed views of primary care staff, to address barriers and find acceptable ways of developing training and support for early identification of dementia Author/s: Laura Sanger, Kath Bland, Claire Short For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full...

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Cautionary tales: accounts of dementia in fiction

Jill Manthorpe discusses whether people with dementia are empowered through their representations in comtemporary fiction, and considers the scope of this medium to offer a genuine resource for the training of staff in dementia care settings Author/s: Jill Manthorpe For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC...

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Higher education in dementia care

Staffordshire: A new postgraduate course starts September 2005; and the same month sees the launch of a forum for staff involved in training Author/s: rg/admin/jdcarticles-amend.pl For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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Training for care staff

Bridgend: Karyn Davies, Helen Lambert and Alison Turner descirbe the development of a team whose role is to advise on dementia care and provide training for staff in local care homes Author/s: Karyn Davies, Helen Lambert, Alison Turner For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive...

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Putting Dementia Care Mapping on the map

Paul Edwards describes the development of DCM regional networks and the role they play in supporting practice in DCM Author/s: Paul Edwards For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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First postgraduates complete course

Kevin Hope reports on the MSc course in dementia care at the University of Manchester Author/s: Kevin Hope For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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