Website: Social Care Institute for Excellence
The guide is for health and social care staff who work with people with dementia and their carers, and those who work with older people and people with learning disabilities. This includes GPs, nurses, geriatricians, psychiatrists, social workers, care home managers and care staff. It also includes recommendations relevant to commissioners, managers and coordinators of health and social care.
(Social Care Institute for Excellence / National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, November 2006)
A range of guidance materials and links to further support implementation of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA). Find out what already works and what might work in the future. And also, given the potential of the MCA to touch the lives of millions - particularly those who live with learning disability, dementia or mental health problems and those working and caring for them - the resource provides the opportunity to link related policy areas together. Examples include the development of the National Dementia Strategy and SCIE's practice development work on restraint, available in late summer 2009.
(Social Care Institute for Excellence)
The care and support provided encourages individuals to participate as far as they feel able. Care aims to develop the self-confidence of the person receiving services, actively promoting health and well-being. Adequate support is provided in eating and drinking. Staff and people receiving services are encouraged to maintain a respectable personal appearance.
(Social Care Institute for Excellence, 2007)
