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DEMENTIA CARE & TRAINING VODG Backs Renewed Focus on Restraint Training Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) is supporting a renewed focus on restraint training by the Restraint Reduction Network (RRN), which has led the development of the national training standards. There has been a lack of quality assurance for restraint training and too often training focuses on restrictive interventions, without sufficient focus on prevention or de-escalation, says VODG. The Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) have led the development of the national training standards which VODG is pleased to have backed. The standards aim to promote culture change, not just technical skills. The standards will: • Protect people’s fundamental human rights and promote person centred, best interest and therapeutic approaches to supporting people when they are distressed
• Reduce reliance on restrictive practices by promoting positive culture and practice that focuses on prevention, de-escalation and reflective practice to minimise use of restrictive practices • Increase focus on prevention, understanding of the root causes of behaviour and recognition that many behaviours are the result of distress due to failing to meet needs • Improve staff skills and confidence in how to keep people safe in crisis and to better understand how to meet people’s needs in order to prevent crisis situations • Improve the quality of life and protect the fundamental human rights of people at risk of being restrained and those supporting them • Where required, focus on the safe use of restrictive interventions including physical restraint
Enrich Activities with Training from Alive
Enrich activities with training from Alive Alive is the UK’s leading charity enriching the lives of older people in care and training their carers. Through meaningful activity sessions, training, community engagement programmes and advocacy, we aim to put wellbeing at the heart of care. We know that meaningful engagement and outstanding activity require creativity, innovation, teamwork and a genuine love of people. Our personcentred, responsive Training and Coaching courses can support and empower your staff to provide the meaningful activity and day to day engagement your residents need.
Our courses are proven to inspire, enthuse and provide the skills needed for your staff to enrich the lives of the older people with whom they work - all day every day. We offer a variety of set in-house training courses and bespoke courses which can be delivered nationwide at any of your care settings.
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Engaging with people living with dementia One to one work with older people Life story work and reminiscence with older people iPads with older people Providing meaningful activities for older people Co-production
Ensure your staff have the skills and confidence they need to deliver truly outstanding activity.
To find out more or to book a course please contact Alive.
0117 377 4756 • info@aliveactivities.org www.aliveactivities.org Alive, Smeaton Road, Create Centre, Bristol BS1 6XN. Registered Charity No 1132708
There are now over 400,000 older people living in residential care in the UK. Alive is the UK’s leading charity enriching the lives of older people in care and training their carers. An ageing population is meeting dramatic changes within the social care sector, and the results are catastrophic. It's become all too familiar to see older people lined up in the living room of a care home, depressed, silent and staring at the television. Care settings are closing rapidly, for minimum wage care staff work a job that requires a vast skillset, and vulnerable older people are paying the price. As the future for adult social care hangs in the balance, care staff are stretched to breaking point. “The job that we’re expecting nursing homes to do is ever more complex and ever more difficult,” says Andrea Sutcliffe, chief inspector for regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Care homes must demonstrate their ability to provide meaningful activity and Alive exist to address this need, through our activity sessions and care staff training.
WHAT WE DO
Alive is one of the leading practitioners in the UK of meaningful activity for older people in care. We provide fun and dynamic activity sessions to encourage creativity, celebrate life stories and get the circulation going. We're different to other activity providers because we enable older people to shape the content and direction of Alive sessions, which include the use of new technology, guided reminiscence, creative, energising and physical activities. We entertain but we're more than entertainers. We engage older people in meaningful ways using a variety of tools and techniques tried and tested over the last 10 years. Alive activity sessions are proven to impact positively on older people in the expression of personal identity, enabling of personal choice, interaction with others and general well-being. Their training and mentoring is found to have contributed to positive changes in the culture of care and practice within the care settings. To find out more or to book a course please contact Alive on 0117 377 4756 or visit www.aliveactivities.org
Helping Care Teams Engage by Gillian Hesketh of Happy Days Dementia Workshop & Design Alongside healthy eating and exercise, social engagement is paramount for overall wellbeing. That’s why at Happy Days Dementia Workshop, we are passionate about helping care teams enrich social care for residents, patients, people at home and people living with dementia. Everyone reminisces, no matter what age; remembering school days, a holiday, a concert, previous job or life experience. Reminiscence can colour our stories, comfort us and is especially useful when caring elderly and people living with dementia. It’s important for care teams to have varied collection of reminiscence materials available to help initiate meaningful social interaction. 'Care Teams become very enthusiastic once they have reminiscence materials to engage with’ states Gillian Hesketh MA, of Happy
Days Dementia Workshop & Design. We are all different: some of us may enjoy afternoon craft sessions, watching a film, or a trip out but for others, just a few moments chatting may be enough. Using Happy Days ‘Time to Chat’ prompts, reading newspaper headlines or employing nostalgic games like Jacks, Beetle Drive or Snakes & Ladders can be extremely beneficial. We don’t stop here, Happy Days has a range of meaningful wall art and nostalgic murals to expand interaction, encourage eating, instigate exercise and generate conversations. Our replica shops can bring carers, residents and visitors together creating a sense of community which everyone can enjoy. Save time searching and sourcing - Shop online at www.dementiaworkshop.co.uk or see the advert on page 1.
Curve Learning and Development WHY CHOOSE CURVE?
Our team has over thirty years’ experience in designing and delivering top courses. We know that the more our trainees enjoy the training, the more easily they take in and retain the material. Smaller private companies, large multi-site organisations and local authorities all have something in common; teams learn best when they’re truly engaged in the process. To make things as easy for you as possible, we come to you and train your team on its own, familiar site. If you’d rather that we trained your team at our West Yorkshire-based training centre, drop us a line and we’ll tell you which courses we can deliver here. With Curve Learning, your team will be totally absorbed!
TRAIN THE TRAINER
Our range of train the trainer courses will equip your training team with the skills, knowledge and materials required to deliver all your mandatory training courses. Most of our courses in this area comprise of two day’s training with the first day spent developing delegate’s practical training skills and awareness of training theory. The second day focuses on the specific subject that you would like to deliver. The Level 3, CPD accredited training skills day of each course covers the following: • The training cycle • Effective presentation skills • Managing group dynamics • An introduction to learning styles • Effective questioning skills
• Designing inspiring training material • Evaluating your training delivery. The second day is specific to your chosen subject and will take you through our Level 3 accredited front line course.
FACE TO FACE
We are able to deliver training direct to your staff on site at your premises at any location in the UK, or here in West Yorkshire within our fully equipped training room. By taking this approach you leave us to worry about the development of your staff while your time and resources are spent elsewhere. We are able to provide over 40 CPD Accredited courses ranging from Moving & Handling, The Mental Capacity Act & DOLS, Infection Control, Medication Awareness etc. to more specialised training such as Positive Behaviour Intervention with Physical Interventions, Pressure Area Care, Epilepsy Awareness and Diabetes Awareness. Almost all of our courses can be delivered in a halfday format which allows you to maximise your investment by having two different courses in the same day, training up to 30 people.
E-LEARNING
We offer a suite of Level 2 CPD accredited online training courses. All courses are designed to help you meet your developmental requirements in a cost effective, easy to use way. For more info call us on 01924 842787 or visit www.curvelearning.org.uk or see the advert on the following page.