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Staff's experiences of fearful situations when caring for people with dementia
— will this interfere with the delivery of person-centred care? |
| Author(s) | Sylvia Ruttedge, Ian A James |
| Journal title | PSIGE Newsletter, no 97, January 2007 |
| Publisher | Psychologists' Special Interest Group in Elderly People - PSIGE, British Psychological Society, January 2007 |
| Pages | pp 31-37 |
| Source | http://www.psige.org.uk |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Personality ; Management [care] ; Attitude ; Personnel ; Pilot ; Northern Ireland. |
| Annotation | Staff working in older adult care settings are dealing with people with highly complex clinical presentations. Unfortunately, despite this level of complexity, the staff employed in this area are often poorly trained and ill-prepared emotionally to deal with the challenging situations that are frequent occurrences. The idea for the present research emerged from a series of workshops conducted by the Newcastle Challenging Behaviour Service (NCBS) in "Delivering person-centred care". A common comment from the participants during the training was that it was often difficult to be "empathic" towards a resident when you are fearful of him/her. This was the impetus for this research programme which attempts to examine staffs' fears and their impact in relation to working practices. This article presents the qualitative data from a 16-item survey, which serves as a pilot for a larger study to be conducted in the Antrim/Ballymena area within the Northern Health and Social Service Board, Northern Ireland. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070629204 A |
| Classmark | EA: DK: QA: DP: QM: 4UC: 9Y |
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