The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

Keady, John

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0496

Keady, John

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0496

Burrow, Simon

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0497

Burrow, Simon

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0497

Ann Johnson

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0498

This article is written by someone living with Alzheimer's disease, Ann Johnson. It considers how education about dementia can be delivered in various settings and to various audiences. It highlights the different approaches required and the feedback received.

Johnson, Ann

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0498

This article is written by someone living with Alzheimer's disease, Ann Johnson. It considers how education about dementia can be delivered in various settings and to various audiences. It highlights the different approaches required and the feedback received.

Simon Rippon

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0499

The rising demographics of people living with dementia amount to an estimated 821,8841 (Luengo‐Fernandez et al, 2010) The cost of providing care and treatment to these people is marked; the cost of long‐term care alone amounts to an estimated £9 billion per year in social care and health care costs are estimated to be about £1.2 billion ‐ of this, hospital inpatient admissions amount to 44% of the total (Luengo‐Fernandez et al, 2010, p7) These figures are expected to rise over the next 20 years and will, over this unfolding timeframe, pose significant challenges to those tasked with commissioning health and social care services within the public and private sectors. The nature of those challenges will be explored and discussed further in this short article.

Rippon, Simon

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0499

The rising demographics of people living with dementia amount to an estimated 821,8841 (Luengo-Fernandez et al , 2010) The cost of providing care and treatment to these people is marked; the cost of long-term care alone amounts to an estimated £9 billion per year in social care and health care costs are estimated to be about £1.2 billion - of this, hospital inpatient admissions amount to 44% of the total (Luengo-Fernandez et al , 2010, p7) These figures are expected to rise over the next 20 years and will, over this unfolding timeframe, pose significant challenges to those tasked with commissioning health and social care services within the public and private sectors. The nature of those challenges will be explored and discussed further in this short article.

While, Chris ; Nunn, Russell ; Donohue, Lisa ; Koch, Susan

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0500

Education and support in the clinical setting promotes competence and confidence of staff as well as the provision of quality care. This paper will describe the development and evaluation of a dementia education programme that supported new clinical practice in dementia care for district nurses in an Australian context. Overall, staff who received training also required leadership at the clinical interface to support knowledge translation. Clinical nurse leaders in aged care were found to be an effective resource to facilitate learning and confidence when new practice was being introduced.

Chris While; Russell Nunn; Lisa Donohue; Susan Koch

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0500

Education and support in the clinical setting promotes competence and confidence of staff as well as the provision of quality care. This paper will describe the development and evaluation of a dementia education programme that supported new clinical practice in dementia care for district nurses in an Australian context. Overall, staff who received training also required leadership at the clinical interface to support knowledge translation. Clinical nurse leaders in aged care were found to be an effective resource to facilitate learning and confidence when new practice was being introduced.

Deborah O'Connor

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0501

Mental health practitioners dealing with older adults living in the community are commonly required to form judgements about the decision‐making capacity of someone with dementia. Newer ways of understanding the dementia experience that recognise the importance of relationships and social connections on the functioning of the person with dementia, offer promise for helping to better conceptualise and carry out these assessments of capability. A relational lens recognises that performance and behaviour of persons with dementia are determined not only by neuropathology but also by their personal histories, their interactions with others, and by how they are perceived within their social contexts. This paper will examine how this more ‘relational’ model of understanding can impact the assessment of incapacity.

O'Connor, Deborah

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0501

Mental health practitioners dealing with older adults living in the community are commonly required to form judgements about the decision-making capacity of someone with dementia. Newer ways of understanding the dementia experience that recognise the importance of relationships and social connections on the functioning of the person with dementia, offer promise for helping to better conceptualise and carry out these assessments of capability. A relational lens recognises that performance and behaviour of persons with dementia are determined not only by neuropathology but also by their personal histories, their interactions with others, and by how they are perceived within their social contexts. This paper will examine how this more ‘relational’ model of understanding can impact the assessment of incapacity.

Dawber, Rebecca

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0502

Alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD) is an increasing challenge for service providers working with older people and adults. It has a complex aetiology and does not progress in the same way as other causes of dementia. The devastating effects of ARBD undermine a person's ability to lead an independent life, yet it is thought that with the right interventions, a degree of recovery can be seen in 75% of sufferers. People with ARBD do not neatly fit into an existing category of care; they ‘fall through the net’ at multiple points in the care pathway. Using a patient synopsis drawn from clinical practice the author illustrates the impact of an advanced practice role in relation to the nursing care of patients with ARBD, as well as making suggestions for the provision of education and support for mainstream services.

Rebecca Dawber

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0502

Alcohol‐related brain damage (ARBD) is an increasing challenge for service providers working with older people and adults. It has a complex aetiology and does not progress in the same way as other causes of dementia. The devastating effects of ARBD undermine a person's ability to lead an independent life, yet it is thought that with the right interventions, a degree of recovery can be seen in 75% of sufferers. People with ARBD do not neatly fit into an existing category of care; they ‘fall through the net’ at multiple points in the care pathway. Using a patient synopsis drawn from clinical practice the author illustrates the impact of an advanced practice role in relation to the nursing care of patients with ARBD, as well as making suggestions for the provision of education and support for mainstream services.

Vivienne Davies‐Quarrell; Alan Higgins; Joan Higgins; Pat Quinn; Mo Quinn; Gary Jones; Linda Jones; Anthony Foy; Vilma Foy; Robert Marland; Pat Marland; Adrienne Powell; John Keady

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0503

This article describes the evaluation of the ACE club, a service for younger people with dementia in North Wales. The evaluation was conducted by the ACE club members and conducted through a relationship‐centred approach expressed through the Senses Framework (achievement, belonging, continuity, purpose, security, significance) (Nolan et al, 2006). Members of the ACE club found the sense of significance to be the most important and meaningful ‘sense’ in helping to structure their evaluation and use of the ACE club. The clinical interventions outline is shared within the text to help provide a grounded and inductively generated practice structure. The funding of ‘normalising’ activities for younger people with dementia is an area of dementia care that needs urgent attention.

Davies-Quarrell, Vivienne ; Higgins, Alan ; Higgins, Joan ; Quinn, Pat ; Quinn, Mo ; Jones, Gary ; Jones, Linda ; Foy, Anthony ; Foy, Vilma ; Marland, Robert ; Marland, Pat ; Powell, Adrienne ; Keady, John

2010 The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice

doi: 10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0503

This article describes the evaluation of the ACE club, a service for younger people with dementia in North Wales. The evaluation was conducted by the ACE club members and conducted through a relationship-centred approach expressed through the Senses Framework (achievement, belonging, continuity, purpose, security, significance) (Nolan et al , 2006). Members of the ACE club found the sense of significance to be the most important and meaningful ‘sense’ in helping to structure their evaluation and use of the ACE club. The clinical interventions outline is shared within the text to help provide a grounded and inductively generated practice structure. The funding of ‘normalising’ activities for younger people with dementia is an area of dementia care that needs urgent attention.