Home Support Matters
At a conference organised by Worcestershire County Council, Peter Priednieks,
Director / Senior Consultant and Daren Felgate, Consultant Trainer launched
Dementia Care Matters' new model for dementia care home support:
"Inspiring Home Support: The 50 Point Outcomes" Checklist.
Download here - checklist
Two day workshop for Home Care Support Workers
"Living with a dementia – being supported at home"
Aims:
To enable staff to focus their skills on being person centred alongside people living in their own home
To give participants an opportunity to reflect on what matters most living with a dementia
To shift home support from task based care to relationship focused support
Objectives:
Reflecting on what people living with a dementia have to say about their current experience of services
Learning how to know where someone is along their journey of living with a dementia
Supporting people living with a dementia in their different reality
Learning the language of dementia and how to work with feeling based language
Providing personal care in a person centred way
Working alongside families as partners in home support
Knowing how to focus on increasing peoples individual well being and decreasing ill being
Shifting from task based home care to relationship based home support
Developing best practice alongside Dementia Care Matters model – ‘Inspiring: Home Support – Relationships Matter in Person Centred Dementia Care’
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