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Person Centred Dementia Care: Making Services Better (Bradford Dementia Group Good Practice Guides)
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Product Description
The term person-centred care has been widely used, misused and ill defined. It is used frequently in the aims and objectives for dementia care services and provision, although in practice what lies behind the rhetoric can be questionable. This book gives fresh definition to the important ideas behind and the implementation of person centred care for people with dementia. Dawn Brooker explains the four key elements of person centred care that comprise the VIPS model: Valuing people with dementia and those who care for them (V); treating people as Individuals (I); looking at the world from the Perspective of the person with dementia (P); and a positive Social environment in which the person living with dementia can experience relative well being (S). With an emphasis on practical application, Person Centred Dementia Care provides care organisations with clear, accessible guidelines on how to put the VIPS model into operation for effective care that is 'fit for VIPs'. Part 2 of the book comprises the VIPS organisational reflection tool, which care providers can use to assess how well they think they are doing at providing person-centred care. This will be essential reading for practitioners working with and policy makers responsible for people with dementia at all levels.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #42999 in Books
- Published on: 2006-12-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
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About the Author
Dawn Brooker is Strategic Lead Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) at the Bradford Dementia Group, University of Bradford. She has twenty years' academic and clinical experience of working in the field of dementia, during which her particular research interest has been the improvement of quality of life and of services for people with dementia.
Customer Reviews
Great Help
4 years ago my husband was diagnosed with Korsakoff syndrome which has got worse and is a form of dementia . This book has been great help in understanding how the mind works or not in some one who cannot make sense of the world around him.
A good book for anyone coping with someone who has dementia or a student who may want to study mental illness.
