Care Home Safe Holding: Issues in Managing Distress in Dementia Care
Time and again, caregiving staff in services for older people describe scenarios where they believe fundamental safety and care processes have broken down. Across the many care homes we work with, six concerns surface repeatedly. What Care Home Staff Are Reporting 1. Inadequate pre-admission assessment. The resident’s care needs and previously reported challenging behaviour or […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Dementia ward patient found bashed
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 […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Fatality when Elderly Man with Violence History Bit Care Home Resident
The Oldham Evening Chronicle reports on an incident where a man with a recent history of serious violence towards care home staff, other residents and his family was admitted to another care home after he had caused the death of a resident. Frederick Adams (93) was bitten on the finger and hit with a shoe […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Dementia Care Staff Locked themselves in the Bathroom
The Need for Care Home Safe Holding Training Care Home Safe Holding can help your staff to have a pre-planned and practiced response to aggressive or distressed behaviours in your service. The following is an actual story reported to our training team during sessions we deliver for staff who look after older people in care. […]
Safe Holding in Care Homes: The 90-year old Care Home Tsunami
The following is an actual story and scenario which was reported to our training team in the sessions that we deliver for staff who look after older people in care. Stories like this are generally representative of the kinds of conflict and violent incidents which occur with largely un-recognised frequency in care homes across the […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Non-Escalation in Personal Hygiene Tasks for Dementia Caregivers
Notes from “Bathing Without a Battle” Based on the research and training programme developed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Caregivers in nursing facilities rate assisting persons with dementia during bathing or showering one of the hardest, if not the hardest, caregiving task that they perform. Miller, 1997; Namazi & Johnson, 1996 […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Preventing Stress-Related Behaviours in Care of Older People
Preventing Stress-Related Behaviours in Care of Older People The best vantage point for understanding behaviour is from the internal reference frame of the individual himself.— Rogers (1951) When caring for a person with dementia who is having difficulty communicating, staff are encouraged to remember that residents will pick up on negative body language such as […]
Care Home Safe Holding: 72-year old woman died after assault by fellow resident
A 72-year-old grandmother died 13 days after being attacked at a care home. Maureen Shone, 72, was found by staff on the floor of her bedroom in Trentham, Staffordshire after being brutally assaulted by a male patient. Staff found the attacker near Mrs Shone’s room covered in blood. A metal curtain pole had been used […]
Resident left the building: Care Home fined £140,000 and ordered to pay £65,000 costs
The owners of a Stamford care home where an elderly woman died have been fined £140,000 and ordered to pay £65,000 costs. The Incident Staff at the Whitefriars Care Home in St George’s Avenue failed to notice that pensioner Dorothy Spicer, 84, had gone missing on the evening of November 25, 2009. She was found […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Woman (89) died while being escorted by staff in care home
Source: Leicester Mercury Only one member of staff was helping Mrs Keogh on the morning of the accident when a risk assessment document said she needed two to help her wash, dress and move from one part of the home to another. An elderly care home resident died after crashing through a wooden handrail on […]