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Dementia Care Training Manual for Staff Working in Nursing and Residential Settings

Danny Walsh

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This accessible, interactive resource book encourages front-line staff working with dementia sufferers in nursing and residential settings to examine their working practice and modify it to where appropriate to meet best practice guidelines.

Dementia Care: A Care Worker Handbook

Belinda Good

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A one-stop handbook to support training and continuing professional development in dementia care.

Dialogues in Dying (DVD)

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This DVD pack comprises of a DVD and 52 page booklet. It is a unique resource which utilises a visual, interactive training experience, linking with supportive care frameworks to improve this difficult and highly sensitive area of communication.

Enriched Care Planning for People with Dementia: A Good Practice Guide for Delivering Person-centred Care

Hazel May and Paul Edwards

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This book presents a complete practical framework for whole person assessment, care planning and review of persons with dementia or signs of dementia (including those with learning disabilities) who are in need of, or already receiving, health and/or social support.

Group and Individual Work with Older People: A Practical Guide to Running Successful Activity-based Programmes

Chia, Swee Hong

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This book will be an invaluable for occupational therapists, creative arts therapists, health and social care practitioners and all other professionals working with older people.

Health and Safety: A Workbook for Social Care Workers

Suzan Collins

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Designed to meet the requirements of Health and Social Care (Adults) NVQ Level 3, Unit 32, this workbook is also a valuable source of guidance for any social care worker wanting to improve their knowledge.

How to Make Your Care Home Fun: Simple Activities for People of All Abilities

Agar, Kenneth

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How to Make Your Care Home Fun examines the need for activities for elderly people in care and offers a practical programme of entertaining activities that can be used in nursing and residential homes, day centres, rehabilitation centres and hospices.

Introducing Cognitive Analytic Ther

Ryle A

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Involving Families in Care Homes: A Relationship-Centred Approach to Dementia Care

Bob Woods, John Keady and Diane Seddon Bob Woods, John Keady and Diane Seddon

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In this accessible guide the authors take person-centred dementia care a step forward by outlining ways in which care homes can help families to become partners in the caring process.

Leadership for Person-Centred Dementia Care (Bradford Dementia Group Good Practice Guides)

Loveday, Buz

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This accessible book is essential reading for all those with a formal or informal leadership role within a dementia care service, including managers, deputy managers, team leaders, service managers and experienced care staff involved in leading or mentoring others.

Mental Health and Care Homes

Dening, Tom; Milne, Alisoun

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Bringing together both clinical and research perspectives, this book will help those working in the care home sector to deliver high quality care and support to both residents and staff.

Nursing Care of Older People

Hindle, Andrew; Coates, Alison

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This comprehensive textbook examines the changes brought about by the ageing process to both physical and mental health as well as learning disabilities.

Palliative Care for Care Homes: A Practical Handbook

Christine Reddall

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Christine Reddall draws on almost four decades of nursing experience to create a clear and easy-to-read handbook primarily for workers caring for the dying in care homes.

Partners In Care: A Training Package for Involving Families in Dementia Care Homes (DVD Edition)

Bob Woods

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This training package, comprising a booklet and DVD, is designed to encourage family participation in the care home and develop a constructive partnership between staff in care homes, families and people with dementia.

Playfulness and Dementia: A Practice Guide

Killick, J and Allan, K

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Establishing playfulness as an essential component of dementia care, this positive and uplifting book will be key in changing attitudes and providing ideas for new and valuable ways of interacting and being with individuals with the condition.

Providing Good Care at Night for Older People: Practical Approaches for Use in Nursing and Care Homes

Diana Kerr and Heather Wilkinson

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This book provides night staff, their managers and anyone else with an interest in care homes during the night with the information, knowledge and practical skills they need to deliver positive and appropriate care at night.

Recording Skills in Safeguarding Adults: Best Practice and Evidential Requirements

Jacki Pritchard and Simon Leslie

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This book is a comprehensive guide to keeping accurate, effective and complete records within safeguarding adults work.

Reducing Stress-related Behaviours in People with Dementia: Care-based Therapy

Chris Bonner

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This practical book provides simple and imaginative ways to prevent and reduce stress-related behaviours in people with dementia in residential care.

Reflecting on and Developing Your Practice: A Workbook for Social Care Workers

Suzan Collins

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Working in residential or domiciliary settings involves a continuing process of learning. Every day, social care workers face challenges that force them to think about what they do and how they do it - whether it be an ethical dilemma, the introduction of a new policy or procedure or training on a specific subject.

Reminiscence and Life Story Work

Faith Gibson

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This fully-updated fourth edition is full of practical information on planning and running successful reminiscence work.

Rights, Risk and Restraint

Rhidian Hughes

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This book provides health and social care professionals with an authoritative reading resource on the ethics and use of restraint. The book provides an overview of the different forms of restraint, the conditions under which they are used, and their implications for the health and wellbeing of older people.

Risk Assessment and Management for Living Well with Dementia

Charlotte L. Clarke, Heather Wilkinson, John Keady and Catherine E. Gibb

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This book outlines some of the key issues in risk perception, assessment and management in dementia care in a way that is both practical and accessible to a wide range of practitioners.

Safeguarding Adults: A Workbook for Social Care Workers

Suzan Collins

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This workbook will provide staff and relatives with the ability to make sensible choices concerning prevention and protection, as well as responding to and reporting concerns.

Supporting Positive Behaviour: A Workbook for Social Care Workers

Suzan Collins

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Supporting Positive Behaviour examines the underlying reasons for the behaviour, ways to spot challenges before they occur and strategies to minimise or prevent incidents.

Supporting Relationships and Friendships : A Workbook for Social Care Workers

Collins, Suzan

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This workbook will equip social care staff with the knowledge and skills to understand what friendships and relationships mean to service users' health and well being.

The Activity Year Book: A Week by Week Guide for Use in Elderly Day and Residential Care

Anni Bowden and Nancy Lewthwaite

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This book offers week by week themed activities. From Valentine's Day quizzes to Bonfire Night word searches, it has activities relating to every important date in the calendar, and also encourages reminiscence and discussion around these events.

The Carer's Cosmetic Handbook: Simple Health and Beauty Tips for Older Persons

Sharon Tay

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This practical handbook is specifically designed to assist carers in looking after their clients' appearances as well as their health, providing a wealth of information on health and beauty care for older people.

The Importance of Food and Mealtimes in Dementia Care: The Table is Set

Grethe Berg

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Grethe Berg explains how mealtimes can be used as natural opportunities for meaningful interaction, socialising and reminiscing, and useful forums for taking part in familiar tasks.

Understanding Behaviour in Dementia that Challenges: A Guide to Assessment and Treatment

Ian Andrew James

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Recognising that challenging behaviours occur at times of distress and reflect an attempt to cope with difficult situations, this book works towards understanding the nature of this distress, examining the views of the resident and using the information gathered to prevent repetition of upsetting and uncomfortable circumstances.

Understanding Care Homes: A Research and Development Perspective

Davies

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Understanding Care Homes draws together a range of research and development initiatives that emphasise the importance of partnership working, and of enabling older people and their families to maintain the highest quality of life.

Valuing Older People: The Positive Psychology of Ageing

Elspeth Stirling

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This book examines the growing importance of positive psychology and its connection to later life.

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