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How Fancy Footwork can open up the language of dementia
Author(s)Brenda Walker, Tony Dale
Journal titleJournal of Dementia Care, vol 12, no 6, Nov/Dec 2004
Pagespp 30-32
SourceEmail: shital@hawkerpublications.com
KeywordsDementia ; Communication ; Therapy ; Training [welfare work].
AnnotationThe authors' Fancy Footwork approach is rooted in the work of Tom Kitwood and also in "resolution therapy". The main strength of Fancy Footwork lies in alerting staff to the wrong ways of doing things as a way of identifying a more humane empathic approach towards people with dementia. The training method variously involves using truth, distraction, ignoring or lying in a way that is not hurtful to the person with dementia. The authors present material drawn from the training they have developed. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-050113207 A
ClassmarkEA: U: LO: QW

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