Home Support Matters

 

 

At a conference organised by Worcestershire County Council, Peter Priednieks,

Director / Senior Consultant and Daren Felgate, Consultant Trainer launched

Dementia Care Matters' new model for dementia care home support:

 

 

"Inspiring Home Support: The 50 Point Outcomes" Checklist.

 

Download herechecklist

 

 

Two day workshop for Home Care Support Workers

 

"Living with a dementia – being supported at home"

 

 Aims: 

To enable staff to focus their skills on being person centred alongside people living in their own home

 

To give participants an opportunity to reflect on what matters most living with a dementia

 

To shift home support from task based care to relationship focused support

 

 

Objectives:
        

Reflecting on what people living with a dementia have to say about their current experience of services

 

Learning how to know where someone is along their journey of living with a dementia

 

Supporting people living with a dementia in their different reality

 

Learning the language of dementia and how to work with feeling based language

 

Providing personal care in a person centred way

 

Working alongside families as partners in home support

 

Knowing how to focus on increasing peoples individual well being and decreasing ill being

 

Shifting from task based home care to relationship based home support

 

Developing best practice alongside Dementia Care Matters model – ‘Inspiring: Home Support – Relationships Matter in Person Centred Dementia Care’

 

 Full details of this workshops click here