New PDF release: Developing Excellent Care for People Living with Dementia in

By Caroline Baker,Pete Calveley,Jason Corrigan-Charlesworth,Sue Goldsmith

ISBN-10: 1849054673

ISBN-13: 9781849054676

The award-winning PEARL (Positively Enriching and adorning citizens' Lives) programme was once built to let care houses to maneuver from offering stable basic care to first-class person-centred dementia care. Trialled largely through one of many UK's biggest care services, it's been confirmed to dramatically bring up the standard of lifetime of individuals with dementia dwelling in care houses, considerably lowering using antipsychotics and the prevalence of stress-related behaviours.

This concise and available advisor, written through the Director of Dementia Care on the care supplier which trialled and constructed PEARL, describes the major standards of the programme, and offers top perform directions for dementia care practitioners wishing to exploit the method of their personal care domestic. With an emphasis at the useful, possible components of the programme, and drawing on many helpful examples, the writer and participants supply instructions on, among many stuff, getting the basics of person-centred care correct; allowing decision-making; decreasing stress-related behaviours; psychosocial remedies; safeguarding; aiding employees; and concerning relatives.

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