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Living in care
— an exercise to promote empathy | | Author(s) | Ian James |
| Journal title | Journal of Dementia Care, vol 24, no 5, September-October 2016 |
| Publisher | Hawker Publications, September-October 2016 |
| Pages | pp 26-28 |
| Source | www.careinfo.org |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Behaviour disorders ; Personality ; Management [care] ; Care homes ; Newcastle upon Tyne. |
| Annotation | How can care staff be encouraged to take a broader view of behaviours that challenge? This article explains how a specialist behaviours that challenge (BC) team in Newcastle who are part of the Newcastle Challenging Behaviour Service (NCBS), use workshop exercises in their teaching programmes to help staff reflect on their interactions with people with dementia. The author describes an in-session teaching task aimed at getting care home staff to empathise with their residents' experiences of what living in 24 hour care must be like. As well as increasing staff empathy, the exercise helped care staff to understand that some of their residents' reactions may not be due to the difficulties of living in care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170120247 A |
| Classmark | EA: EP: DK: QA: KW: 86A |
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