March/April 2022 – Dementia Community

New Perspectives on responding to Behavioural & Emotional Expressions of Need: The micro-skills involved in de-escalating agitation

Professional carers employ a wide range of de-escalation strategies in response to behaviour that challenges. Daniel Thompson and colleagues, who prefer a different term for describing this behaviour, introduce the concept of “micro-skills” and a training programme to help more care staff to learn them. We would like to present the concept of “micro-skills,” illustrating...

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JDC Asks

“Thinking about the design of the care environment for a person with dementia, what single inexpensive change can often lead to the greatest gain in quality of life?” We rely on sensory clues to navigate our environment, especially people with sight, hearing and cognitive impairments. Seeing things clearly is vital for recognition, understanding, wayfinding...

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How to support and enable people living with all levels of dementia

The PAL instrument was developed to help assess a person’s level of functional and cognitive ability with the aim of providing better support and care. It is now available free from QCS as a download. Its creator, Jackie Pool, describes the journey of the PAL Instrument and, in this first of 4 articles which looks...

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How do we meaningfully engage stakeholders in developing a best practice approach to post-diagnostic dementia support?

Empowering engagement with people with dementia and other stakeholders in developing best practice is hard to achieve. Greta Brunskill and colleagues explain how they set up a “Dementia Care Community” to inform their research to improve post-diagnostic dementia support and got positive results. Involving the public in health and social care research is widely recognised...

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Valuing ‘nous’ – injecting health and social care with a booster of emotional intelligence

A recruitment and retention crisis and the brutal effects of the pandemic suggest that it is time for a reset in the care sector. David Sheard, in his inaugural professorial lecture, says that demonstrating to staff that their emotional labour is valued requires a return to emotional intelligence in care. Emotional intelligence is the opposite...

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Acute hospital care for people living with dementia: Review of recent research

Scanning the research literature Hazel Heath was struck by the volume of recent studies on dementia care in acute hospital settings. Here she highlights the key messages and implications for practice. People living with dementia are highly significant in acute care services. At any one time one in four acute hospital patients is a person...

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JDC Research Summaries

Community Support Services Current policy guidance recommends that people diagnosed with mild-to-moderate dementia receive information and psychosocial interventions to improve their ability to ‘live well’ but it remains unclear to what extent this is achieved. This study collected information from over 1500 people living with dementia and over 1200 carers in England. It identified that...

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Events

14-15 March Managers Conference 2022 Subtitled “Together Again: Regroup, Recovery, Resilience”, the conference in Warwickshire is organised by National Care Forum. www.nationalcareforum.org.uk 25-26 March Alzheimer’s Show 2022 Talks, practical advice and information on services and products all available at this London show. www.alzheimersshow.co.uk 22-23 April International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease, Diagnosis and Treatment London conference...

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Resources

London housing and care provider Octavia and St Christopher’s Hospice are launching a resource to help care teams promote a better quality of life for people towards the end of their lives. The Better Lives, Better Endings resource is aimed at care teams working in extra care housing and includes a range of tools to...

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Dementia Diaries

Our rebuilding of the new Dementia Diaries website continues apace. When we are ready to go we will be relaunching Dementia Diaries with the new, much more accessible website. We’ll be looking to expand the range and number of diarists too, so we’ll be asking for your support in reaching out. Do you know or...

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