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Dementia: improving quality of life
— including papers presented at a Leveson Seminar [on 25 February 2003] | | Author(s) | Kate Read, Jill Phillips, Margaret Anne Tibbs |
| Corporate Author | Leveson Centre for the Study of Ageing, Spirituality and Social Policy, Foundation of Lady Katherine Leveson |
| Publisher | The Leveson Centre, Knowle, Solihull, 2003 |
| Pages | 34 pp (Leveson paper number six) |
| Source | The Leveson Centre for the Study of Ageing, Spirituality and Social Policy, Foundation of Lady Katherine Leveson, Temple Balsall, Knowle, Solihull B93 0AL. |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Quality of life ; Care homes ; Management [care] ; Quality ; Christianity ; Conference proceedings. |
| Annotation | The first three of the four papers were presented at the seminar. Kate Read, Director of Dementia Plus, gives an overview of the nature of dementia, the ways it manifests itself, and how an understanding of the person can make a difference to the quality of care. Jill Phillips was manager of Mayfields, MHA Care Group's specialist home for people with dementia; she provides examples of some of the approaches used at the home. "Who is it that can tell me who I am?" is based on Margaret Anne Tibbs' research carried out at MHA Care Group as part of a Bradford Dementia Group team, which resulted in the report, "A special kind of care". She considers the important issues of communication with people with dementia, and explores ways in which faith does or does not survive under the assault of the self. Alison Johnson's paper was first presented at a Journal of Dementia conference in Warwick in 2000. It is based on her Winston Churchill Fellowship in Australia, where she looked at good practice in dementia care, and considers how residents, staff, relatives and members of the wider community together live life to the full. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031212002 B |
| Classmark | EA: F:59: KW: QA: 59: TS: 6M |
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