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 […]
Case Study: Learning Disability Respite Service
Learning Disability Service Learning Disability Service Case: A charity organisation serving children with disabilities and their families, providing day and overnight short-term respite services asked Dynamis to assist with training needs for their staff. A number of incidents had happened recently in this Learning Disability Service which prompted them to address staff and client safety. Who engaged […]
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 […]
Restraint Training: Managing Distress and using force to clean a resident
Where an older person in care is soiled and needs the attention of care staff to get cleaned up, but resists verbally and physically (sometimes combatively) their efforts to do so, then we believe it is important that every step of the process to manage this scenario is managed in a clear, ordered and auditable way. […]
Managing Distressed Behaviours: Personal Hygiene and Bathing
Managing Distressed Behaviours with Older People in Care – Hygiene Tasks Managing Distressed Behaviours, particularly with Residents presenting combative resistance to basic personal hygiene care is an increasingly common scenario in care homes for older people that we visit, in our training team’s experience. Staff should have clear guidance on when and how this scenario is to […]
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 […]