Feelings: listen and validate by Shirley Pearce It is over 30 years since Tom Kitwood and Kathleen Bredin first described four “global sentient states”, or feelings, that are required for a sense of well-being: self-esteem, agency, social confidence and hope. These elements of wellbeing are interdependent: like pillars supporting a heavy platform, damaging one puts…...
Once a week we hold Zoom meetings with Dementia Diarists. We talk a little about diaries, and a little about dementia, but mostly we just talk. Our conversation takes us all manner of places, and quite often we think “that would have been a good diary……” We’ve been recording diaries “live” in this way for…...
Wendy Mitchell describes heading out to a meeting of York Minds and Voices. These meetings are evidently joyous occasions and Wendy posts a selection of her photos taken on the day to prove it. There is peer support and discussion of the new Admiral Nurse service “Closer to home,”: supporting people to live as well…...
Self-assessment scale for care management This research developed a self-assessment scale for the management of care for people living with dementia. Key factors were: (1) ‘Person centred care’, (2) ‘Understanding of disease characteristics, treatment and care’, (3) ‘Understanding of people with dementia and care management according to their characteristics’ and (4) ‘Utilization of local resources’. …...