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Increasing knowledge — can it improve practice?
Author(s)	Jill Conroy
Journal title	Journal of Dementia Care, vol 16, no 6, November/December 2008
Publisher	Hawker Publications, November/December 2008
Pages	pp 30-32
Keywords	Dementia ; Care home staff ; In-service training ; Projects.
Annotation	The author shares lessons from a project at the Guideposts Trust funded by the Department of Health. The aim was to develop a model for care homes that would deliver knowledge-driven practice to care homes, improve staff skills, and thereby improve the quality of care. The author reports the results of two audits of ten care homes to assess the extent of organisational change and knowledge promotion after two programmes of development work on best practice, team building and reflective practice. Programme sessions focused on these knowledge areas: introduction to dementia and ageing; person-centred care; communication; life history; delivering personal care; eating and drinking; activity and occupation; activity and occupation; the enabling environment; behaviours that challenge; and working with relatives and carers. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-081217212 A
Classmark	EA: QRM: QWD: 3E
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