Restraint Training: Floor-Based Restraint Controversy
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. In a call to ban prone restraint, a leading mental health charity has suggested that the use of prone restraint is degrading, humiliating and has no place in a civilised modern healthcare system. The charity also linked prone restraint to numerous deaths which […]
Protect Staff from Spitting: Worker almost blinded and Care Service fined £110,000
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Nightclub death linked to Neck Restraint
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Understanding Reaction Time in Restraint Training and Personal Safety
In sports science, there is a vast and growing body of knowledge on the subject of Reaction Time, as it is one of the key components of the performance of skill. Reaction Time is defined as the interval of time that elapses from the sudden presentation of a stimulus to the beginning of a person’s […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Alzheimer’s man (90) punched to death by fellow resident
Dennis Bryant died in November 2013 at the age of 90 after fellow Alzheimer’s patient, Michael Hall, went into his room in Westcott House Nursing Home in Dorking and punched him several times in his bed. The attacker, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in June 2013, was admitted to East Surrey Hospital with a police escort that […]
Restraint Training: The Biggest Mistake in Control Tactics
Coach Tony Torres says that the biggest problem in Control Tactics is that people try to exert control too soon in the confrontation timeline. The biggest problem in Control Tactics is that people try to exert control too soon in the confrontation timeline. The Three Phases of Any Confrontation In our 9 Attitudes methodology from […]
Restraint Training: How many people to clean a resisting subject in a bed?
In addition to the issues we have previously identified in regards to 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 and manual handling issue is one I often hear: a care home has a resident who […]
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 […]
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. […]
Safe Holding in Care Homes: The 90-year old Care Home Tsunami
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. Stories like this are generally representative of the kinds of conflict and violent incidents which occur with largely un-recognised frequency in care homes across the […]