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Developing Excellent Care for People Living with Dementia in Care Homes
Caroline Baker
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Description for Developing Excellent Care for People Living with Dementia in Care Homes
Paperback. The award-winning PEARL programme has been proven to dramatically increase the wellbeing of people with dementia living in care homes. This concise and accessible guide describes the key criteria of the programme, and explains how dementia care practitioners and managers can implement them in their own care homes to achieve excellence. Series Editor(s): Downs, Murna. Series: Bradford Dementia Group. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSG; MJND; MQCL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
The award-winning PEARL (Positively Enriching and enhancing Residents' Lives) programme was developed to enable care homes to move from providing good fundamental care to excellent person-centred dementia care. Trialled extensively by one of the UK's largest care providers, it has been proven to dramatically increase the quality of life of people with dementia living in care homes, significantly reducing the use of antipsychotics and the incidence of stress-related behaviours. This concise and accessible guide, written by the Director of Dementia Care at the care provider which trialled and developed PEARL, describes the key criteria of the ... Read more
The award-winning PEARL (Positively Enriching and enhancing Residents' Lives) programme was developed to enable care homes to move from providing good fundamental care to excellent person-centred dementia care. Trialled extensively by one of the UK's largest care providers, it has been proven to dramatically increase the quality of life of people with dementia living in care homes, significantly reducing the use of antipsychotics and the incidence of stress-related behaviours. This concise and accessible guide, written by the Director of Dementia Care at the care provider which trialled and developed PEARL, describes the key criteria of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
University of Bradford Dementia Good Practice Guides
Condition
New
Weight
269g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849054676
SKU
V9781849054676
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Caroline Baker
Caroline Baker is Director of Dementia Care at Four Seasons Health Care. She was a Consultant Trainer in Dementia Care Mapping and Person-Centred Care at Bradford Dementia Group, Bradford University. Her previous roles were Clinical Nurse Specialist in Dementia Care for Walsall Primary Care Trust, Independent Social Services Liaison Nurse for Walsall Community Health and Home Manager at The ExtraCare ... Read more
Reviews for Developing Excellent Care for People Living with Dementia in Care Homes
This is a 'must-read' for anyone involved with the care of the elderly living with dementia including therapists working with this client group. Caroline Baker's project, POSITIVELY ENRICH AND ENHANCE RESIDENTS LIVES (PEARL) has transformed the lives of residents in those care homes which have 'signed up' to the PEARL programme... Caroline Baker has left no ... Read more