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Dementia care becomes indispensable part of live-in carers’ training
Dementia care becomes indispensable part of live-in carers’ training
LIVE-IN care agency Corinium Care has trained more than 200 people in dementia care in the last year in response to increasing demand.
The company, based in Gloucestershire, provides free training in a raft of subjects for new carers.
Earlier this year it started to offer special one-day refresher training in dementia care to all their existing carers.
It then launched a one-day seminar in dementia care for relatives of elderly clients.
Managing Director of Corinium Care, Camilla Miles, said that helping carers to communicate with their clients is vital for the wellbeing of both parties.
“People with dementia can often feel frightened, confused, threatened and incapable,” she said.
“If carers haven’t come across that before, they need help to deal with it. There isn’t enough training out there for dementia care – not even for doctors and nurses – so we decided to provide it ourselves. We feel passionately about it”
Carers undergoing dementia care training appreciated the opportunity to widen their knowledge.
Beverley Phillips, whose client has dementia, said: “Dementia is a can of worms yet to be unleashed in the UK and people are only just waking up to the seriousness of the situation.”
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“In my small way I’d like to help spread the word that dementia is not a stigma, and not something to be swept under the carpet.
“Everyone should get a better understanding and do what they can to help those with dementia retain as much dignity and quality of life as possible.”
Training sessions in dementia care take place at Corinium Care’s offices in Nailsworth. Carers are given examples of what to expect from someone with dementia and offered solutions as to how to manage it.
“We can’t expect a client with dementia to adapt to us- we have to adapt to them and communicate in a way which puts them at ease,” said Mrs Miles.
“There are many ways of doing that – building up the client’ s self-esteem, expressing ideas in a positive way, avoiding the word “don’t”, not asking questions they can’t answer.”
She added that one of the most difficult aspects of dementia to grasp is the loss of logic and reason. “What should a carer do if the client puts toothpaste on her toothbrush, then brushes her hair with it?” she asked.
“Everything takes time too. But it’s important that our clients are allowed to do things for themselves and feel at the end of it that they’ve achieved something.”
She pointed out that a lot of the unusual habits which people with dementia adopt, like wearing odd clothes, or drinking their tea out of a saucer, are a reflection of our own perception of received behaviour.
“If we try to teach them to act differently, we are expecting them to adapt, which is unlikely to happen. What we have to ask ourselves is: does it matter? Is the client putting herself at risk?”
Mrs Miles, who set up Corinium Care in 1995, said: “We have the opportunity to provide one-to-one dementia care in a dignified and safe environment and to allay fears in what can be a very uncertain future for the client and their families.”
The award-winning agency, based in George Street, has 800 registered carers on its books. It has 15 staff at its head office in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, as well as recruitment offices in New Zealand, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Dementia facts
Dementia is the term used to describe symptoms that occur when the brain is affected by specific diseases and conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
There are more than 100 different types of dementia.
Symptoms include loss of memory, mood changes, anxiety, and communication problems. It is a terminal condition.
There are about 680,000 people with dementia in the UK. According to government statistics, the number is forecast to increase by 38 per cent in the next 15 years.
One in five people over 80 has a form of dementia, and one in 20 people over 65 has a form of dementia. Two thirds of care home residents have dementia.
The number of older people in Gloucestershire is above the national average: in 2006 there were an estimated 8,000 people in the county, aged 65 and over, living with dementia. This is projected to rise by 50 per cent to nearly 12,000 in 2025.
Each year, £32m in government funding goes towards finding new treatments and ways of preventing or curing Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. The Alzheimer’s Society, whose patron is author Sir Terry Pratchett, says it’s not enough.
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Dementia Signage, helpful advice for people who care for people living with Dementia
Dementia is a syndrome that effects the ability of the brain to process memories, thoughts, language, understanding and also judgement. Many people of the 570,000 who develop dementia within England have problems with controlling their behaviour and emotions as the structure within the brain starts to decline. Dementia is usually developed by people over the age of 65 and the older you get the more likely you are to develop some of the symptoms.
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Alzheimer’s disease, this is one of the most common types of dementia where small clumps of protein develop around the dementia sufferers brain cells reducing the brains ability to work normally.
Vascular Dementia, as the name suggests the dementia sufferer will experience problems with oxygen within the blood circulating and providing a limited supply of both blood and oxygen to the brain.
Dementia with Lewy bodies, this is where abnormal structures develop within the brain known as Lewy bodies.
Frontotemporal Dementia, this is a rare form of dementia which develops in younger people, this develops when the frontal temproral lobes in the brain begin to shrink and again disrupt the structure of the brain.
In most cases there is no cure for dementia and over a period of time the symptoms will get worse and the dementia sufferer quality of life will decrease. Although there is no cure there are a number of treatments and techniques that can help improve the quality of life allowing them to cope with their conditions much better. Visual Communication Aids specialise in providing advice and also equipment to help support dementia sufferers and also people who care for people with dementia.
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The examination showed changes Alzheimer had never witnessed before. Parts of the brain showed tangling and other parts showed clumping of brain matter. Later research showed more “younger” people who had died of dementia who displayed the same brain abnormalities. This came to be known as Alzheimer’s disease.
It was later found that this type of dementia occurred far more often in older people, with their brains showing the same abnormalities at microscopic level.
However, at this time, Alzheimer’s disease was a diagnosis only applied to younger sufferers, since these formed the basis of Alois Alzheimer’s research. Older sufferers were labeled with pre-senile dementia or senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT).
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Question by Layme Manne: What is the most potent and powerful synonym for “insanity”, “dementia,” or “sickness”?
I’m looking for the best that creates that utter feeling of despair…being gone past all hope & help…
BOO! HISS! Did I stutter? I want synonyms, not the same words, you insolent little peon twits.
And, when put into perspective, they can most definitely be alike. Go suck the big one off your mother.
Any thoughts, kind members of W&W?
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SOMEONE HELP A BROTHER OUT — errr, sorry, Sir..I’m not quite sure. But best of luck in your endeavors…ahh, the English language sucks the big one sometimes…no word *is* potent enough.
That’s what drugs are for.
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