What aspects do you need to consider when providing activities to people with dementia?

There are various aspect you should consider when providing activities to people with dementia. You should always apply person centred approach while providing activities. Maintaining dignity and independence is very important in this exercise. You will have to aware of their interests and preferences and cultural backgrounds before arranging activities. And that is why you may need to study their biography or past history or ask their family or friends about their interests and preferences if direct communication with the person is being failure. Age, professional background and intellectual level of a person is recommended to consider as well from my point of view. Such as, a retired university’s dean, an author or highly intellect person may not be encouraged to your bingo, card game, baking a cake or gardening activities. Therefore you have to find out and arrange an appropriate activities for them. You also need to maintain and encourage to use their existing skills. If their common interests and preferences doesn’t match one another and age, cultural backgrounds, medical history, professional backgrounds restriction interrupts then you may need to make different groups to provide appropriate activities.

Safety is your main concern while arranging activities. You have to make a safe place and environment for this. First, you have to measure the risks if there is any involved and eliminate it accordingly or minimise if it is not possible to eliminate. You also need to allow service users or clients to take risks according to their capabilities, but your observation and assistance should be near at hand on instance.

 

Empathy is also a vital part of this exercise. Therefore your practice need to be inclusive. You have to interact with everyone to feel them valued. Showing empathy is become a part of minor dilemma sometimes. Author Foisal Talukdar’s Theory “Empathy (different Psychology applies on different individuals of different types of dementia or any other brain diseases). Some people may shout you back while you are being empathetic to them. It does mean they feel they are capable of doing things their way and their sense, feelings, self- confidence and self-pride still active in their part of the brain. Your approach should be empathetic from your behalf but not to displayable by words or any action to feel them that they are now the subject to receive your sympathy”. Anyways, I have gone far away from this topic. All you need empathy and understanding of different types of dementia. Such as a person with Parkinson disease may not be able to hold things right way or a person with Alzheimer disease may withdraw himself all on a sudden in the middle of your event or a person with challenging behaviour may start shouting at everyone. All of these you have to take into consideration before you start and provide activities accordingly.

Key Points:

·         Maintain Independence and Dignity

·         Maintain and Use Existing Skills

·         Age Appropriate

·         Culture Appropriate

·         Take into Account Likes

·         Take into Account Dislikes

·         Health and Safety Issues

·         Allow Person to Take Risks where appropriate

·         Empathy

·         Knowledge of the Different Types of Dementia.

By Md. Foisal Miah Talukdar

A thesis: What is dream? And why do we see dream?

Dream is nothing but a reflection of your brain’s present and past activities. It is made up of your past, present and future thoughts, events, imagination and activities. I am not a neuro-biologist who may explain different neuro-biological term more in details. But as a person I put down my point of view that may lead someone to think it different way. All of the human beings at least once in their life time see dreams while they are sleeping or brain and body is in inactive mode. Why does it occur? We do not let it occur (in some cases we can). It occurs automatically. Your thoughts, plans, joys, sorrows, fears, imaginations what you are going through or went through in your real life, all may appear in your dream exact way or different way bearing the same messages. Sometimes people dream future events as well. It can be exactly the same way or different way bearing the same messages and many people call it as a miracle. But it is not miracle. It is almost possible to anyone. Anyone can see the future events depending on their subjects, plans, life style and how deep their thoughts are and how many times they thought about that subject and planned using their memory and how much mark (cache) they left in their memory. In a word it depends on their brains activities. There is a logical explanation for almost everything in this world. Logical explanation is required when it comes to the term ‘different way or different scenario bears the same messages’. Suppose you saw you was drowning in an ocean or ocean of lager and can’t breathe as you are drowning. In reality, you are not likely to drown in a lager ocean. So you called it nightmare. The dream you saw is bearing a message of present, past or forthcoming event in your life and you can aware of that only by logical explanation. Your brain is the mysterious part of your body. 

Knowing this all only one question remains to know that how it occurs. Have you ever seen your browser automatically suggests sites of your choices? Of course it does. Browser suggests pages automatically restoring cookies and caches from your visited pages in the present or past then suggest your next choices. Exactly the same way without programming language and software our memory preserve caches and cookies from our present and past thoughts, events, future plans, imaginations including  joy, grief, fear, excitement, adventures then it produces scenario linking all cache data together which bears the message of your present, past or upcoming events or thoughts. I understand Neuro-biological term is completely different. It is my theory and I do provide logical explanation for my theory.

By Md. Foisal Miah Talukdar

A poster that describes a range of person centred approaches to care

By Md. Foisal Miah Talukdar

a) Why it is important for a social care worker to seek feedback on performance. b) The different ways that people may react to receiving constructive feedback. c) Why it is important for a social care worker to use the feedback to improve their practice.

You arrange a mentor meeting to feedback to the social care worker. You have comments to make which include both praise and constructive criticism.

Write notes to prepare for your meeting. In your notes, explain :

•    Why it is important for a social care worker to seek feedback on performance.

•   The different ways that people may react to receiving constructive feedback.

•   Why it is important for a social care worker to use the feedback to improve their practice

Ans.

 

Meeting Date : 01/12/2014                                                                                   Time : 14:30

Meeting Place : Room No. # 4

Everyone expects inspiration and progression within their service provision. And it is only possible when they obtain comments or feedback from service users, their families, colleagues, manager and all other professionals. Social workers are constantly required to give feedback, both to colleagues and to service users and also seek from colleagues and service users and their families. One way of approaching this is to reflect on your own experiences of getting feedback, and what makes it possible to ‘hear’ or not.

Why it is important to obtain feedback?

I understand you all work hard and provide a good service. But how you will know that your hard work and dedication is meeting people’s expectation following organisation’s policies and procedures. The only way you can be aware of quality of your work by obtaining feedback from others. List of the importance of obtaining feedback are as follows:

• People want their work to be appreciated

• People need encouragement and want to be praised for the good job what they have done. 

• Feedback helps to identify learning and development needs. 

• It is necessary for professional development. 

• Without feedback, it is impossible for people to learn how to be more effective in their jobs

• Positive, non-judgmental feedback is both instructive and empowering.

Feedback comes from other people in many different forms, both verbal and non-verbal. We receive feedback from others about our behaviour, our skills, our values, the way we relate to others, and about our very identity. For this reason, feedback is central to the process of reflection.

Constructive feedback is essential to improve and increase the effectiveness of the service. It helps social care worker to adhere in learning and developing new skills. 

How people can react on constructive feedback or criticism :

React :

•  People may react defensively. 

• They may counterattack.

• They may flee or become emotional. 

• They may reluctantly accept the reprimand and promise to improve. 

• They may try to blame others. 

• They may strive to change the subject.

Why it is important for a social care worker to use the feedback to improve their practice?

Feedback is the other way you can be aware of your strengths, skills and learning and development needs in your service provision. You can use feedback to identify your learning and development needs to improve your practice and receive appreciation for your service. Without feedback you will remain unaware of the practice which is not meeting requirements or expectation. If feedback doesn’t meet your expectation then you should work on areas to improve your practice and adhere to learning and development you require to be more skilled and professional and provide service according to. Blogger Foisal Talukdar explains term ‘feedback’ is ‘evaluation of your work, skills, learning’s and understandings’. You can reflect on your practice but you cannot evaluate your own work, practice and skills. In economy evaluation work different way, where a possessor can evaluate his possession only when it is not possessed by others apart from him alone. Therefore you require obtaining feedback to evaluate your practice and improve it. It is required by law to reflect on your practice and adhere to learn and improve it.

                                                                                                                      By Md. Foisal Miah Talukdar

'Children's economy for public'

Dear Readers,
I have posted a article on my other blog 'Economy for public: How currency value changes? What is Goverment's debt? How can you contribute to your economy?' You may find it very useful to know. Your wisdom should not be limited or should not have any boundary. It should expand and spread. Nothing is little or difficult to learn. Author thinks and scribbles all day to enlighten your intellect. It becomes worthy when you read and share it to enlighten others.
Many Thanks
Foisal Talukdar

You may be interested

Dear Readers,
You may be interested in reading my new blog about travel and holidays http://bestvisitingspot.blogspot.com.
There are more tips coming about travel and vacations. Please share this to your family and friends if you find it quite useful.
Kind Regards
Foisal Talukdar

Identify five different skills or approaches that might help resolve conflict

Conflict arises among colleagues and others in care sector mostly from different views, method of workings and personal experiences. Obviously there are plenty of other reasons like inequality, domination, discrimination and personal interests (such as conflict for position) can raise conflicts as well. However, conflict and argument should neither occur in front of service user nor should reflect on service standard.

• Good attitude and good relationships (Good partnership working): As far as possible, make sure that you treat others calmly and try to build mutual respect. Do your best to be courteous to one-another and remain constructive even under pressure.
• Paying undivided attention to the interests that are being presented: By listening carefully you'll most-likely understand why the person is adopting his or her position.
• Listen first; talk second: To solve a problem effectively you have to understand what person’s view is and where it is coming from before defending your own position.
• Keep people and problems separate: Remember you are in conflict to an issue not to a person. By separating the problem from the person, real issues can be debated without damaging working relationships.
• Compromising Attitude: Compromising helps to find a solution that will at least partially satisfy everyone. Everyone is expected to give up something and the compromiser him- or she also expects to relinquish something.

 Moral Note: Remember, the people you are serving are someone’s parents, grandparents and above all our people. Reflect and imagine yourself in the same situation after 30-50 years and should you expect the same you are doing now. Because, it is said that what goes around comes around. And I have found a true relativity to the Newton’s third rule is ‘Every action has equal or opposite reaction.’ Do not do anything that you would not expect when you will be like them.

Explain how to raise awareness of diversity, equality and inclusion 

Identify Three Ways of Challenging Discrimination And How Each Will Promote Changes

By Md. Foisal Miah Talukdar

 

Identify one report on serious failure to protect individual from abuse. Describe the unsafe practice in review.

Mr. X is physically frail and immobile who lives in a care home. Due to lack of his mobility and other age related issues, Mr. X supposed to assist by two professional carers for personal care and mobility using equipment. One of the carer found nobody in his unit to assist him in one of the afternoon and tried himself to assist Mr. X to the lavatory as Mr. X told him it is an emergency and he needed to access the lavatory without delay. While carer was helping Mr. X on his own to the lavatory, Mr. X fell of the sling and broke his hip. In daily care records it is found that carer very often assist him on his own.

Review:  Although care plan clearly stated that two carers should assist Mr. X according to risk assessment but carer has been failure to follow rules and procedure. Physical abuse has occurred in this incident. Also this physical abuse can lead Mr. X to psychological abuse through trauma (afraid of being moved). As an employee, he should not only to comply with rules and procedure and follow the care plan but also has responsibility to inform employer if he notices any hazardous handling activities in the workplace. Also he should inform manager if he needs resources which he has been failure to do. Unsafe practices identified in this incidence has listed below –

Ø  Mr. X is assisted and manhandled by one carer

Ø  Not following rules and procedures by employee

Ø  Supervision has not been carried out properly as carer has assisted Mr. X previously on his own

Ø  Adequate resources and information has not been provided by the company or carer was not following any

Ø  Adequate human resource has not been provided by the employer

Ø  Employer has also been failure to maintain safe working environment.

By Md. Foisal Miah Talukdar

Identify national policies and local systems that relate to safeguarding and protection from abuse