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How well do we really know the people we care for?
November 24, 2020
I was feeling a bit out of sorts this morning. Tired, achy, grumpy and unmotivated. I’m sure you know that feeling. Anyway, as I nursed my double shot latte in…
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Taking Positive Risks
November 19, 2020
“Life itself is a risk. We cannot eliminate risk without eliminating the person.” Professor Rhonda May What is it that makes us so uncomfortable when a service user wants to…
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Getting Ready for the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)
January 31, 2020
We updated you in the summer on how things were getting on with plans to put the LPS into practice. At the moment, it’s slowed down a bit due to…
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Absence of choice
February 12, 2016
We often forget that in organising and providing ‘ordinary’ lives for service users, there is something rather precious we omit from the plan. We work really hard to make lots…
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Self-neglect and a duty to intervene ethically
February 7, 2016
I’m taking a break from the series of blogs on European social care this week (although I’ll be looking at best practice examples from Europe over the next couple of…
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How to move people without tears
February 6, 2016
Making sure your staff use safe moving and handling techniques is one thing; making this client centred can be quite another. I was speaking to our Moving and Handling in…
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If music be the food of love…
February 5, 2016
Poor nutrition is commonly experienced by people with dementia. So it was with interest this week to see a new initiative from the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust for the…
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Nature and stress
February 2, 2016
A six month research study carried out by a researcher from Exeter University has shown that watching nature films can reduce anxiety symptoms for people in the early stages of…
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