When your heart wants to remember: person centred dementia care
Jan Dewing Senior Fellow for Dementia, Gerontological Nursing Programme, RCN
The traditional approach to dementia care was essentially based around the view that so long as people with dementia were kept ‘fed’, clean and dry, that was all they needed. This minimalistic approach to care arose, not because of any intention to harm or to deprive people from care, but because of established knowledge, values and beliefs about dementia that have developed in UK society over the past 100 years (Harding and Palfrey 1997). This learning unit aims to enable nurses to develop a better understanding of person centred dementia care so that they might reflect more critically on their working with, and promote wellbeing for, people with dementia. It is necessary to watch the entire video before starting work on this Nursing Update workbook.
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doi: 10.7748/ns.13.38.4.s53
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