Challenging Behaviour in Elderly Dementia Care: Bathing without the Bruises
Drawing on the Bathing Without a Battle programme, the post asks what being clean really means to each resident, then covers communication, flexibility over rigid policies and the three drivers of resistance.
Feedback on Distressed Behaviour In Dementia Care
Staff feedback on a Managing Distressed Behaviour in Dementia Care course that analyses specific daily tasks, proximity, body language and pacing, then covers options when behaviour escalates, including last-resort safe holding.
Making Decisions about Restraint in Dementia and Elderly Care
This Social Care Institute for Excellence video, used on Dynamis courses to prompt discussion, weighs the duty to care against protection so that restraint is minimised and residents keep safety and dignity.
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #5
The post examines a restraint technique promoted for controlling violent patients in hospital, warning that staff lying on a prone person put body weight through the torso and cannot monitor what they cannot see.
Restraint Training: Floor-Based Restraint Controversy
A mental health charity called for prone restraint to be banned. The post argues restraint is a tool, like a wrench, judged by how it is used, and cites ACPO’s view on floor outcomes.
Restraint Training: Uncommon Sense in Safely Caring for Older People
A midlands care home asked Dynamis to help staff give insulin and intimate care to residents who resist. Gerard O’Dea describes the visit and the uncommon sense that made tasks safer within 24 hours.
Case Study: Training for Drug and Alcohol Support teams
A hostel supported-living team faced aggression from service users with chaotic lifestyles. The case study covers the status threats, inconsistent boundaries and cramped office behind incidents, and the three-part programme that followed.
Train to Become a Personal Safety Adviser this October?
A self-protection trainer course runs 18 to 20 October 2015 and incorporates the NFPS/BTEC Level 3 Award in Self-Defence Instruction. The post lists what candidates cover, from reasonable force to 26 layered drills.
Care Home Safe holding: Judge concerned with violent dementia patients
A Canadian inquest into a care home resident killed by another resident recommends secure units in every personal care home in the Winnipeg region, more beds, waits under 60 days, and better training.