The Globe and Mail is reporting about a judge who has asked for mandatory secure units in care homes which look after people with dementia who present with violent behaviour. Speaking in Canada, the judge said that the number of people who suffer from dementia-related cognitive impairment is rising sharply and that there must be a corresponding increase
“the word on the street is that Emergency Departments keep a lot of drugs. Drug seekers know this. They also know that it is easy to walk into an open-access Emergency Department and demand drugs, even if it takes the use of violence to get what they want.” Violence in the Emergency Department, Patricia B.
Where an older person in care is soiled and needs the attention of care staff to get cleaned up, but resists verbally and physically (sometimes combatively) their efforts to do so, then we believe it is important that every step of the process to manage this scenario is managed in a clear, ordered and auditable way.
A significant continuing professional development engagement this week sees Dynamis training director Gerard O’Dea going through a BTEC Level4 course with a national-level safety organisation. Gerard is busy learning about the safer handling of vulnerable people, the assessment of their movement needs and how to design and risk assess moving and handling. The ultimate result
ABC in Australia is reporting on an inquest that is ongoing in regard to violent attacks by a man in a high-care dementia ward which left one man dead and others in the ward seriously injured and terrified. Charles McCulloch, 94, was found dead in his bed a day after he had moved into a high-care
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