Challenging Behaviour in Elderly Dementia Care: Bathing without the Bruises
Care assistants and caregivers consistently find that bathing is one of the flashpoints for conflict and combative behaviour with elderly residents in care — particularly those who may be confused or distressed because of the effects of dementia. As a company that teaches physical intervention, we often get called in to talk about how staff […]
Fostering: Vicarious Liability and Failure to Train
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Making Decisions about Restraint in Dementia and Elderly Care
Conflict Management | Personal Safety | Dynamis Training: Making Decisions about Restraint with Older People in Care This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. This is a video produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence about restraint with older people in care services. We use it regularly on our […]
Creative approaches to understanding behaviour in Dementia Care
Conflict Management | Personal Safety | Dynamis Training: Creative approaches to understanding behaviour in Dementia Care This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. 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 […]
Breakaway Training: Judges Comments in Dementia Care Assault Case
Breakaway Training: A Judge’s Warning from a Dementia Care Case This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. A 75-year-old resident in a care home suffered from dementia. In just four months since arriving, he had committed 13 acts of aggression and at least 5 attempts at serious acts of aggression […]
Safe Holding Training – Manage Distress – Scotland
The Challenge of Distressed Behaviour in Care This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. 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 […]
Lone Social Worker Abducted and Abused
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Three teenagers who abducted and attacked a trainee social worker on a home visit have been jailed for a total of five years. The case raises urgent questions about whether lone worker safety training is keeping pace with the risks faced by frontline […]
Restraint Training: Unsafe Handling caused death of resident and £57,000 fine
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. 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 […]
Restraint Training: Over 50% of NHS Assaults are Impacts
Assault prevention is a key issue in healthcare and social care environments. In multiple research studies, it has been found that over 50% of assaults on healthcare workers are kinetic: punches, slaps and kicks. Knowing this is important — it allows you to spend the right amount of training time on the types of incident […]
Case Study: Learning Disability Home Care
An 11-year-old boy with a brain injury and learning disabilities was presenting challenging behaviours that his home care team needed to manage safely and confidently. The Case-Manager who administrates and supervises the care package reached out to Dynamis for specialist guidance. The Challenge The young man was presenting infrequent but severe combative behaviour that put […]