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Dementia Care: The Little Known ‘Secret’ To Successful Care of Someone Living With a Dementia
May 30, 2014
This week we take a look at a concept introduced during the past series of blogs, and which we have asked you to seriously consider: environmental pressure – in other…
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How well-led is your organisation?
May 29, 2014
What does well-led mean? The CQC believes the quality of leadership is one of the most important determinants of the quality and safety of services, so one of the five…
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How is the UK doing nutritionally?
May 29, 2014
The results of the first 4 years of the rolling National Diet and Nutrition Survey, our source of nationally representative data of types and quantities of foods consumed by individuals…
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Stepping up to the challenge – part one
May 29, 2014
Its all very well talking about equality and rights for our service users, but do we really offer people with learning disability the chance to represent themselves? These exceptional individuals…
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Hearing the Stories – a Holistic Approach
May 29, 2014
Up until writing these first words I have a memorised narrative, as we all do. We call this our Life Story and we define ourselves by this and the stories…
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No Abuse in Service Use
May 28, 2014
The verdict from care professionals, at a recent seminar, that we ran, was that the key to avoiding abuse of service users by care staff lay in selection of the…
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Achoo! Time for Vitamin C?
May 23, 2014
It starts with a tickle in the throat, and then it hits you; the congestion, the runny nose, the annoying cough. You have a cold! Should you go and buy…
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Dementia Care: The Three Tier Prosthetic Environment
May 23, 2014
To recap from last week’s blog and to summarise thoughts expressed over the last three environment specific blogs: If each area of the care environment is designed to compensate for…
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