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Including the person with dementia in designing and delivering care
— "I need to be me!" | | Author(s) | Elizabeth Barnett |
| Publisher | Jessica Kingsley, London, 2000 |
| Pages | 224 pp |
| Source | Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonvile Road, London N1 9JB. |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Participation ; Management [care] ; Day hospitals ; Psychogeriatric units. |
| Annotation | The views of older people with dementia need to be applied to the design, management, evaluation and implementation of services supporting them. The author discusses why we should or may not want to listen to what older people with dementia have to tell us, and how we can learn to understand them. The book focuses on the development of "Green House" and its transition to provision of a day hospital and an in-patient unit. Interviews with clients produced four overall themes: their awareness of themselves and their situation; the importance for good or ill of other people; the losses which preoccupied them; and their experience of dependence. Using Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) to observe individual clients in their daily life at Green House, a picture emerged of care delivered according to clients' ability levels. The book examines the perspectives of staff, carers and managers involved with Green House, and what can begin to happen when they are given the opportunity to understand their clients' experiences of care. Looking at the emotional and psychological costs of care is more likely to show us how to improve dementia care services than a narrow focus on finances. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001215208 B |
| Classmark | EA: TMB: QA: LDD: LDM |
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