Care Home Manager feedback: excellent and professional
“Trainer was excellent and professional and made the course enjoyable – was presented very well for all staff. Extremely likely to recommend to any colleagues looking for this training” –> Home Manager (RMN), Silverdale Nursing Home, October 2018 Our contextualised and scenario-based training programme is highly rated and regarded, and we rolled it out with […]
Creative approaches to understanding behaviour in Dementia Care
Creative approaches to understanding behaviour in Dementia Care We often show this clip in our dementia-related challenging behaviour courses in care settings. Most recently Gerard worked with a team of escort staff who are sometimes tasked with transporting elderly people with dementia and perhaps challenging behaviour from one place to another. It can be really […]
Breakaway Training: Judges Comments in Dementia Care Assault Case
Breakaway Training mentioned in Dementia Care Home Assault Case A 75-year-old resident in a care home suffered from dementia and since arriving at the home four months before the assault, he had committed 13 acts of aggression and at least 5 attempts at serious acts of aggression, including trying to strangle one of the residents. […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #5
The technique being demonstrated in the picture accompanying this post is promoted as a way for controlling violent patients in a hospital setting. Unfortunately, it is potentially a deadly restraint and its use might go far beyond control and extend to culpable homicide or corporate manslaughter! Restraint training has moved on a lot in many […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #4
The accompanying images in this post are of something that has been referred to as a ‘Therapeutic Floor Hold’ in some training materials. It consistutes, in our view, inappropriate restraint. The (usually) vulnerable person who is being restrained is first taken to the floor – often through the use of some kind of unbalancing […]
Safe Holding Training – Manage Distress – Scotland
Safe Holding Training to deal with Distressed Behaviour with Older People in Care Gerard O’Dea our Director of Training was recently asked to provide an opinion on how care homes in Scotland can deal with the issues of distressed, difficult or dangerous behaviours when caring for older people in their services, sometimes known as Safe […]
Restraint Training: Unsafe Handling caused death of resident and £57,000 fine
A South Lanarkshire care home provider was heavily fined after an elderly resident died after breaking her neck in a fall. At Hamilton Sheriff Court, BUPA Care Homes (Carrick) Ltd was fined £57,000 after pleading guilty to a breach of Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, which led to the […]
Near Misses and Violence Risk Management in Restraint Training
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Protect Staff from Spitting: Worker almost blinded and Care Service fined £110,000
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£150,000 fine for Care Home Wheelchair Restraint Strap Death
A private healthcare company was fined £150,000 in January 2012 after admitting its part in the death of an elderly nursing home resident who was strangled by a wheelchair lap belt. Brigid O’Callaghan, known as Vera, was found dead on the morning of October 28, 2005 at Amberley Court Nursing Home in Edgbaston, Birmingham. […]