Care Home Safe holding: Judge concerned with violent dementia patients
The Globe and Mail is reporting about a judge who has asked for mandatory secure units in care homes which look after people with dementia who present with violent behaviour. Speaking in Canada, the judge said that the number of people who suffer from dementia-related cognitive impairment is rising sharply and that there must be a corresponding increase […]
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 by […]
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 and scenario which was reported to our training team in the sessions that we deliver for staff who look after older people in care. […]
Safe Holding in Care Homes: The 90-year old Care Home Tsunami
Why your team need training about Safe Holding in Care Homes 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. I believe that stories like this are generally representative of the kinds of conflict and violent incidents which occur with […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Non-Escalation in Personal Hygiene Tasks for Dementia Caregivers
NOTES FROM THE TEXT “BATHING WITHOUT A BATTLE”: 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). SENSES: Bathing typically happens in a room, which provides a visual, auditory, olfactory, thermal, and […]
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 sighs […]
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
Care Home Absconding The owners of a Stamford care home where an elderly woman died have been fined £140,000 and ordered to pay £65,000 costs. 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 […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Woman (89) died while being escorted by staff in care home
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Woman-89-died-fall/story-20221627-detail/story.html 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 a […]