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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
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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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The Province has introduced a new masking policy for all healthcare workers who provide direct care effective immediately. Staff Requirements Visitor Guidance With an increase in viral respiratory illnesses (VRI) across the province, the Ministry of Health has introduced new masking measures to help control the spread of these illnesses. It's important to remember that […]
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Staff Requirements Visitor Guidance With an increase in viral respiratory illnesses (VRI) across the province, the Ministry of Health has introduced new masking measures to help control the spread of these illnesses. It's important to remember that masking is just one part of a comprehensive infection prevention and control (IPAC) strategy. To enhance your efforts, […]
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Safety Huddle

Understanding Behaviours Related to Dementia

Learn how dementia affects behaviour and be able to apply strategies to responsive behaviours.

Instructions

  • Before the huddle, print a copy of Shifting Focus: Guide to Understanding Dementia Behaviour.
  • During the huddle, review some of the strategies for dealing with responsive behaviours in the booklet with staff and then ask them to share their experiences with people in care who have dementia. Using the guiding questions, encourage staff to reflect on the experiences they have shared.

After this huddle Staff should be able to:

  • Understand how dementia affects behaviour
  • Be able to apply strategies to responsive behaviours.

Notes to the huddle leader

Leave the booklet in a place that staff can look at it outside of the huddle. It contains a lot of relevant information and useful tips. Make sure to tell staff where you will be leaving it, so they can find it.

Guiding questions

  • What kinds of non-verbal language are effective when trying to put a person in care at ease?
  • If a person in care becomes upset while you are providing care, what should you do? Why?
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Additional Resources

SafeCare BC is excited to partner with the Alzheimer Society of BC to bring you this 45-minute webinar. We will cover the basics about behaviours common among people living with dementia and provide health-care providers with strategies to deliver person-centred care during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this session, you will learn about: How dementia affects […]
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This video series describes how to care for people with dementia. This video introduces the series and provides caregivers with general information on dementia.
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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 how to properly use lifts to avoid musculoskeletal injury.
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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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Read the scenario out loud and use the guiding questions to facilitate a discussion about intoxication in client homes.
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Pets in the Home
Learn to deal with pets according to their organization's policies and react appropriately when a pet poses a risk.
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Learn to report and recognize heat exhaustion and take preventative measures to help avoid the ill effects of heat stress.
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Learn to describe how dementia can change a person’s brain and explain why the strategies shown in the video are effective.
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