Dementia D1 For Assigment
Dementia D1
In this part of the essay I will evaluate how different approaches to caring for people with dementia can affect individual outcomes. I will evaluate the difference of someone living at home with dementia and someone who is living in a care home also suffering with dementia. When living at home with dementia the individual will have professional help come to them to help with daily tasks such as supervising medication intake, enabling optimum health and safety at home, providing a patient listening ear and friendly face, cooking, housekeeping and general errands, helping to facilitate routine, familiarly and comfort for their loved one at a difficult time. When someone moves from their home into a care home it can be very strange for them and cause them to feel very confused and experience further stress. They will suddenly be in a completely new setting that is full of strangers and new objects. The new place will have a set timetable that the individual may not be used to and a whole load of different noises which could be very scary. The individual could have been living on their own for 40 to 50 years and all of a sudden have to live in a new house with strangers.
All of this would have been the best case scenario, but unfortunately some care homes fall below expectations. Many of the care homes are struggling to meet the patient’s medical needs. Nurses said, according to a report by the BBC in March 2012 that there is often inadequate knowledge and training known when it comes to dementia. In that same month David Cameron declared that dealing with the “scandal” of inadequate knowledge and resources is one of his key points. And Sir Mark Walport, Director of the Welcome Trust, stressed the importance of top social care, “so that patients can be helped to live at home for longer, and so that relatives who care for their loved ones receive the support they need”.
Someone who lives at home will receive their care there and this will allow
In this part of the essay I will evaluate how different approaches to caring for people with dementia can affect individual outcomes. I will evaluate the difference of someone living at home with dementia and someone who is living in a care home also suffering with dementia. When living at home with dementia the individual will have professional help come to them to help with daily tasks such as supervising medication intake, enabling optimum health and safety at home, providing a patient listening ear and friendly face, cooking, housekeeping and general errands, helping to facilitate routine, familiarly and comfort for their loved one at a difficult time. When someone moves from their home into a care home it can be very strange for them and cause them to feel very confused and experience further stress. They will suddenly be in a completely new setting that is full of strangers and new objects. The new place will have a set timetable that the individual may not be used to and a whole load of different noises which could be very scary. The individual could have been living on their own for 40 to 50 years and all of a sudden have to live in a new house with strangers.
All of this would have been the best case scenario, but unfortunately some care homes fall below expectations. Many of the care homes are struggling to meet the patient’s medical needs. Nurses said, according to a report by the BBC in March 2012 that there is often inadequate knowledge and training known when it comes to dementia. In that same month David Cameron declared that dealing with the “scandal” of inadequate knowledge and resources is one of his key points. And Sir Mark Walport, Director of the Welcome Trust, stressed the importance of top social care, “so that patients can be helped to live at home for longer, and so that relatives who care for their loved ones receive the support they need”.
Someone who lives at home will receive their care there and this will allow