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Best Practice in Design for People living with Dementia  

This pack of 4 comprehensive and beautifully illustrated booklets provide a essential toolkit for dementia care staff, managers, architects and interior designers to understand how the environment can influence and enhance the function of people living with dementia. It provides practical evidence- based design advice for all environments people with dementia will use.  

Developed by the internationally acclaimed Dementia Services Development Centre in Stirling,Scotland, the pack contains revised reprints of Designing Gardens for People with Dementia and Designing Interiors for People with Dementia, along with two new publications: Designing Lighting for People with Dementia and a Dementia Design Checklist.The checklist has been piloted in Australia. It is designed to be used across all health and aged care environments.  

Copies are $AUD 97.00 (inc postage/handling within Aust). Only available in Australia throughHammondCare. For orders info@hammond.com.au For enquiries mgresham@hammond.com.au

The Care Planning Assessment Tool (CPAT)

The CPAT is useful in both community and residential aged care settings and can be completed by direct care staff with little training. It provides information on problems being experienced with communication, physical activities, self-help, confusion, behaviour, social interaction, psychiatric symptoms and dependency on nursing care.

The CPAT is provided here, free of charge, for use as a paper and pencil assessment in a care planning context. Details of the psychometric properties of the CPAT are available from Richard Fleming at rfleming@dementia.com.au  

The CPAT has been incorporated into a Microsoft Access based application that assists with assessment, monitoring (individual and facility), care plan writing and reporting. It is available from Hammond Care at a RRP of $1,700. Details are available from rfleming@dementia.com.au


Downloads (PDF format):
CPAT form
CPAT instructions

 

Model Care Plans

This book offers a quick and convenient starting point for the development of care plans for the most common problems encountered in caring for people with dementia in residential care. The plans have been developed through careful consultation with experienced staff and have proven to be useful. While being simple and easy to read, they have a clear set of principles behind them, the most important being that we must always strive to help the resident be as independent as possible.

The Model Care Plan book is designed to be used in conjunction with the Revised Elderly Persons’ Disability Scale (REPDS), the precursor to the CPAT. An updated version for use with the CPAT is in preparation. In the meantime the Model Care Plan book plus a master copy of the REPDS assessment is available for $40. A sample of the content of the book is available below:

Downloads (pdf format):
Introduction
Self Help Section

Please order by completing the order form below:
Publication Order Form

 

Emotional Responses in Care (ERiC)

It is sometimes very difficult to assess how a person with dementia is responding to a situation. The ERiC assessment tool was developed to help measure the positive and negative responses of people with dementia by recording the duration and intensity of the feelings they show. It is useful as a quality assurance tool and as a way of assessing the impact of the introduction of a new service or therapy.
 
ERiC has been designed to be used by direct care staff and is supplied with a training video that prepares them to recognize and value the feelings shown by people with dementia.A version for use by community staff and/or family carers is also available along with an informative video explaining its use.
 
ERiC residential care version RRP
ERiC community version RRP

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Challenging Depression

The Challenging Depression book and video is a product of a department of Health and Ageing funded project aimed at identifying and reducing depression in residential aged care services. The final report of this project is available from 
 
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/ageing-chall-depress.htm
 
The 220pp book and 23 minute video provide a wealth of suggestions for tackling this important problem that affects more than half of the people living in residential care.


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Publication Order Form

 

Images of care in Australia and Japan: emerging common values
Richard Fleming and Yukimi Uchide
 

The publication is written for those who are interested in trying to find ways of looking beneath the surface of the care provided to people with dementia.
 
Images of care in Australia and Japan: emerging common values provides insights from two very different cultures and hope for the discovery of common values that transcend national differences.
 
The accompanying CD contains video and PowerPoint presentations that add extra dimensions to the text and provide powerful tools for those wishing to use the book as an educational resource.

Services

Training

DSDC trainers will work with managers of residential and community aged care services to tailor training courses to the current needs of the staff.
 
A 3 day course “Dementia Care Essentials’is available free of charge to eligible staff under the Commonwealth Funded Dementia Care Initiative. Details are provided in the Projects section.
 

Consultancy

Advice on environmental design of dementia specific facilities is provided. Contact rfleming@dementia.com.au for details.

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