November/December 2005

  • What is dementia care? 1. Dementia is communication

    What are the distinct skills needed for dementia care? In this first of three articles Richard Ward and colleagues describe what they discovered from analysing patterns of communication between staff and residents in care homes. Author/s: Richard Ward For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive…...

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  • Activities that paint a thousand words

    Kate MacGregor, communications manager at BUPA Care Homes, explains how an arts project enabled residents at a dementia care unit to express themselves, and describes the positive effect it had on the care team too, while Brenda Driver reports on a very successful art group run by the Cambridge and Ely Branch of the Alzheimer’s…...

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