Dementia

  When someone has Dementia, it is all too easy to just see the illness and forget about the person they used to be. To deliver truly person -centred care…

Hi, I’m very pleased to be doing my first Expert Insight for QCS about Person-centred Care. I have worked as an Occupational Therapist for 20 years in the field of…

  In mixed patient groups oral nutritional supplements (ONS), sometimes referred to as sip feeds, have been shown to be effective in improving weight status. But do we know whether…

When people ask me what Skills for Care do (and for that matter what social care is!) I could give them any number of responses linked to policy, statistics, resources,…

Anyone who’s been on YouTube can support someone with dementia. That’s perhaps a sweeping statement and it’s potentially tricky given that dementia care is a specialist area of work. But…

We just thought we would let you know, if you weren’t already aware, that this week is dementia awareness week. It is a real opportunity for you to raise the…

There have been worrying reports that some staff in care homes may be giving food with meat to vegetarians because with dementia ‘they may not know the difference’. Yet this…

One of my all-time favourite films is The Blues Brothers, where Carrie Fisher’s character, who had been stood up at the altar, is on a crazy quest to kill the…