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The Home Care and Community Health Support Pocketbook was created to bring awareness to several health and safety issues faced in home and community care.
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In long-term care it is increasingly apparent that who is on shift is just as important as how many staff are on shift. Quality care is difficult to achieve when we do not routinely engage with one another in a positive, or civil, manner.
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Leading from the Inside Out provides a safe space for leaders in continuing care to share their challenges and learn self-care practices.
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The Provincial Violence Prevention Curriculum is recognized as best-practice in violence prevention training for health care workers.
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WorkSafeBC’s healthcare and social services planned inspection initiative focuses on high-risk activities in the workplace that lead to serious injuries and time-loss claims.
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WorkSafeBC is releasing a discussion paper with proposed amendments to the Current Rehabilitation Services and Claims Manual that guide wage rate decisions related to short-term and long-term disability compensation. Recommended amendments include: These changes may affect your claims costs. Click here to view the proposed changes and offer feedback to WorkSafeBC – The deadline is 4:30 p.m. on Friday, […]
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Safety Huddle

Dementia Education - Setting the Stage

Learn to describe how dementia can change a person’s brain and explain why the strategies shown in the video are effective.

Instructions

  • Before the huddle, choose a video from the Set the Stage YouTube playlist. These short, animated videos offer practical tips for working with a person living with dementia and any of them can be used with this huddle.
  • Start the huddle by showing staff members your chosen video. Then, using the guiding questions, facilitate a discussion about the video and the strategies it provided.

After this huddle staff should be able to:

  • Describe how dementia can change a person’s brain.
  • Explain why the strategies shown in the video are effective.
  • Apply the strategies shown in the video to improve their interactions with people living with dementia.

Notes to the huddle leader

  • This safety huddle should be offered to all staff who interact with care recipients living with dementia. This includes support staff such as housekeeping, laundry, food services, maintenance, janitorial, recreation, and dietary.
  • Encourage staff to discuss how these strategies can benefit their own health, safety, and wellbeing. For example, consider how the strategies can help staff build trust, foster positive interactions, and support care recipients
    who are demonstrating responsive behaviours.

Guiding Questions

  • What were your key take-aways from this video?
  • Which strategies shown in the video do you already use? Do they work? How could you improve your approach?
  • Which strategies shown in the video are new to you? How could y ou incorporate them into your work?
  • What are the benefits of taking extra time to use the strategies shown in the video?
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Families and continuing care providers work together to provide good quality, person-centred care for people living with dementia – yet sometimes, this experience is marked by frustration or resistance on both sides. A new video produced by SafeCare BC and the Alzheimer Society of B.C. explores the challenges and successes of caring for people living […]
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Dementia can affect behaviour and mood - but the care for persons with dementia aims to achieve the same goals - whether at home or in long-term care - safety for the person, family, and caregivers.
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More Safety Huddles

Working with clients or residents and their families is not always easy. You may not be able to control how others act, but you can control how you respond.
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Learn to identify potentially violent situations, apply de-escalation techniques and report violence or near misses.
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SafeCare BC’s Safety Huddle Handbook includes a collection of topics that you can use to organize your own safety huddles. While many huddles can be done as a discussion, others require additional resources. Below you will find a list of handouts, documents, pictures and videos that can be used for the corresponding huddle.
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Learn to know the consequences of getting injured at work and understand how injuries affect everyone in the workplace.
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Learn how dementia affects behaviour and be able to apply strategies to responsive behaviours.
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Achieve a work-life balance by developing and implement your own self-care plan to
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Learn when it is safe to transfer a person in care and know what to do if it is not safe to transfer.
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Did you know that more than 50 different diseases or conditions can lead to young onset dementia? Join us to watch and discuss a powerful short film featuring Elaine, who was diagnosed with young onset dementia at just 47 years old. In this session, we'll delve into Elaine’s journey, exploring her personal experiences and the […]
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In this case study, we will explore the experiences of a resident living in a long-term care home. This resident will often walk into people’s rooms while searching for something. Through this case study, we will learn how behavior often communicates important information. When we investigate and begin to understand possible reasons for the behaviour, […]
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After this huddle, staff will be able to explain how dementia may affect communication, apply person-centred care approaches to communicating with someone living with dementia, and identify steps to take if there is a new change in a person’s behaviour or ability to communicate.
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Gentle Persuasive Approaches Workshop
Menno Place - Abbotsford
June 21st @ 8:30am to 4:30pm
Dementia
Starting at $35
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