Managing challenging behaviours in dementia care: understanding distress, preserving dignity and supporting staff
This post is about managing challenging behaviours in. In dementia care, behaviour is often communication. A person may shout, refuse care, hit out, grip, walk repeatedly, resist washing, become distressed at mealtimes, or try to leave. To staff under pressure, this can look like “challenging behaviour”. To the person, it may be fear, pain, confusion, […]
Case Study: Care Homes for Older People
OLDER PEOPLE CARE HOME TRAINING IN UNDERSTANDING RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES Older people care home training: Care homes are often required by a care inspection to carry out appropriate training in managing challenging behaviour with their clients and in particular the issues of restraint with older people in care. This often follows an incident in which […]
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 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. […]