Health and Social Care - Dementia

Dementia is a progressive disorder that will affect how you’re brain functions and particularly your ability to remember, think and reason. Dementia usually affects older people and are approximately 820,000 people in the UK with the disorder, and around 15,000 are under the age of 65. If the dementia is recognised early enough that are a lot of things that you can be done to make the quality of life better. In a lot of dementia cases the symptoms and quality of life will progress and get worse over a number of years. The most common symptoms of a dementia patient are:

The treatment is offering best‑practice on the care of people with dementia. There is a broad general agreement that the rules of person‑centred care underpin good practice in the sphere of dementia care. The principles provide the human value of people with dementia, regardless of age or cognitive impairment, and those who care for them the individuality of people with dementia, with

It is essential that you work in partnership with all of the people surrounding the individuals you are supporting in order to ensure the best possible support and care is provided. This will include carers, families, CMHP's and other people who are play an important role in a persons well being. In order to work well in partnership, there has to be good, honest and open communication.

A working relationship is with the people you work. This could be you line manager, colleagues, clients or their families.

1. The service user and his/her care team including any advocates, make parallel around a common understanding of what is Important to the individual now and in the future.

A working relationship is different from a personal relationship because working relationships are based on adhering to the policies and procedures and the agreed ways of working.

In an effort to answer this question I will start off with a clear account of the meaning of dementia, from what it is to the distinctive features of this disease to treatment or appropriate and care needed. This will then be followed by an effort define what is meant by person-centred care in relation to a particular workplace, before plunging into an explanation of what goes into the assessment of the service user, the planning tools needed while addressing some of the benefits of using the person-centred care approach in the care of dementia patients and others service users.

In the health and social care setting there are many different working relationships. These relationships include: colleagues, manager, other professionals such as doctors, district nurse, service users and their family and friends. For each you develop a different type of working relationship and some will be more formal than others e.g. You would not address a visiting doctor in the same manner as you would a service user and you would not address your manager in the same way as you would a colleague although you must ensure that you maintain a professional manner.

A working relationship is where you are placed with other people and work as part of a team, where each individual is working following professional codes of practise, towards the achievement of shared aims and objectives. You do not necessarily have to like the people you work with but you need to keep personal opinions and feelings to yourself. Mutual respect and understanding is a key factor in developing a good working relationship.

A working relationship is a relationship where time is spent with both colleagues and service user during working hours. This relationship means there is little or no contact out of working hours. The relationship is strictly professional. On the contrary a personal relationship is where personal life and extracurricular activities and social life become involved with service users and other staff.

Ensure the service user has a say over the care they receive, and are actively participating in the choices that are being made about their life. The service user should be at the centre of their

• if necessary, provide somewhere for employees to get changed and to store their own clothes

Not all patients with dementia frequently present to healthcare services. As such there is interest in services available for diagnosing dementia in the community. Surprisingly, the amount of published literature in this area is rather scarce. In Australia, access to government subsidised aged care services necessitates assessment by the Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) which is commonly community based.[11, 98] Dementia was a common condition prompting ACAT assessment. [11] Part of the assessment for aged care funding instrument includes assessment for suspected cognitive impairment and referrals to appropriate specialists for confirmation of diagnosis. [99] ACAT's ready access to geriatricians may enable investigation

Working at horizons we have a lot of trainings that we do. When we start there are a number of trainings that we have to do before we started working at the main facility we will be employed at. We take a few days before we start at the group home or facility to finish these. When we do these trainings we sit in a room and watch PowerPoints or videos and then we take a test over them and have to score an eighty percent or higher to move to the next PowerPoint. We then have to get CPR and first aid certified. Every couple of years we have to get re certified for both CPR and first aid.

It is vital to have effective communication between professionals and organisations so that service user is protected. When there are any changes such as improvement in service users or degrading in their health conditions or if there is a suspicion of abuse, information must be shared by communication. By communicating, they are able to monitor the service user's well being and they can be up to date with information of service users. They are able to take action and ensure that service user's needs are