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This issue was raised by Martin Green on Bank Holiday Monday August 31st 2015.
Why we need more men in care. I believe this issue is very important for older people and is not just about men who want men to care for them – care homes can be ‘over- feminised’ environments and the presence of men has a positive effect on several levels - My 97 year old mother living with dementia in a care home frequently said to me – ‘Give me a nice man to look at any time!’.
Read moreResearch shows that successful care homes are learning organisations: they strive continuously to meet standards of quality and best practice through learning and development. We know that Managers play a central role both strategically and operationally in making this happen and owners provide the enabling framework and support.
Read moreJulia Pitkin and I will be delivering the first course of its kind in the UK in January. We believe this course will help people to find more creative ways of working with the person who has dementia with their involvement. It will provide much greater job satisfaction through new insights, knowledge and skills -learning new behaviours. Behaviour we see in others living with dementia which was once labelled ‘problematic’ can be reframed in positive ways.
Read moreAgree with you Leon Smith that the system needs to be simplified and financing care must be fully transparent for the families.
Read moreMP says older people should remain in their own homes. Surely people need more options than this when they don’t want to be lonely or be anxious about maintaining a property - We need a graduated pathway that does not necessarily fall in the ‘care home’ category.
Read moreLet’s get real. Where are the volunteers, sons and daughters and neighbours when good will of neighbours and pop in visits become inadequate?
Read moreThere is definitely a ‘frailness syndrome’ which we ought not to delete from our language of understanding of what is going on for a person who has it. I can’t say I’ve ever associated it with the end stage of life i.e. dying per se.
Read moreMy journey over 10 years with my mother who was living with dementia in a care home has been an experiential roller coaster of learning from ‘the other side of the fence’. Having spent over 20 years of my working life in care homes we found ourselves unexpectedly consumers of the care home sector, first with my father who had multi-infarct dementia and then my mother who had a combination of both vascular and the Alzheimer’s type of dementia.
Read moreBirtley House had a very exciting evening on Friday 23rd January with Jeremy Hunt, MP for South West Surrey and Secretary of State for Health, and Anne Milton, MP for Guildford presenting the first Elizabeth Care certificates, following a course at the University of Surrey, to six successful candidates including Birtley House Lead Carer, Ola Szychulska.
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