Challenging Behaviour in Elderly Dementia Care: Bathing without the Bruises
Splish, Splash, Splosh – I just got Boshed! Care assistants and caregivers consistently find that bathing is one of those flashpoints that they have in terms of conflict and combative behavior with elderly residents in care, particularly those who may be confused or distressed because of the effects of dementia. This is one of the […]
Feedback on Distressed Behaviour In Dementia Care
How to Stay Safe and Keep your Clients Safe when working with Distressed Behaviours Our client for this ongoing training Safe Caring support package is a mid-sized care provider based in the south of England. The organisation has multiple sites and supports individuals facing the challenges of living with dementia day-to-day, offering reassurance, support and […]
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 […]
Managing Distressed Behaviour in Older People: recent feedback for Safe Holding
“The Managing Distressed Behaviour in Older People training was informative & the practical sessions were very useful to learn. I have gained a good knowledge on how to manage difficult or challenging behaviour within my job role.” — Care Assistant, Dementia Unit We recently carried out a series of safe holding training sessions for […]
Making Decisions about Restraint in Dementia and Elderly Care
Making Decisions about Restraint with Older People in Care This is a video produced by the social care institute for excellence about restraint with older people in care services, which we use regularly on our courses to prompt discussion and questions, elicit opinions and get the conversation started. Restraining someone can stop them living the […]
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. […]
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 […]
Restraint Training: How many people to clean a resisting subject in a bed?
In addition to the issues we have previously identified [ Post 1 ] and [ Post 2 ] in regards to those residents who combatively resist efforts to assist them with personal hygiene (particularly if they have incontinence without awareness of this), one further example of the risk assessment/manual handling issue is that I often hear […]