
Supportive Observations within Mental Health
The overall aim of supportive observations is to prevent potentially suicidal, violent or vulnerable patients from harming themselves or others, manage risk or therapeutic activity.
Able Training / Creating Dementia Friendly Environments
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Dementia can impact on an individual’s sensory orientation. Sensory signals that enter the brain may get mixed up or misinterpreted. This means it can affect a person’s eyesight, taste, smell, what they hear and touch. It can affect they way a person perceives the world around them. Creating a dementia friendly environment for individuals can help promote independence, and also help in retaining skills and abilities for longer.
In this course, we will explore types of dementia that impact on vision, such as Posterior cortical atrophy dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. We will also include the importance of risks assessments within the environments and what we can do to improve and create safer spaces. We look at many practical ways we can help adapt environments so that people with dementia can feel safe and reassured. This includes information around:
Anyone supporting someone with dementia — residential care homes, hospital staff, family and friends. Anywhere a person will be living or staying long term, this course can help support with environmental adaptations.
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
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The overall aim of supportive observations is to prevent potentially suicidal, violent or vulnerable patients from harming themselves or others, manage risk or therapeutic activity.
For low to medium risk settings Module 2 provides personal safety strategies, non-restrictive physical skills including responsive interventions to manage big emotions and breakaway training for those who experience hazardous behaviour that poses a physical risk to staff or service user. Staff need training in personal safety, breakaway or separation techniques but should not be required to use manual restraint. (this is the maximum level for lone workers)
For low risk settings. Module 1 covers Positive Behavioural Support & De-escalation training for those that experience behaviour of concern but there is little or physical risk to staff or service users. It is also suitable for those who want to better support individuals to prevent behaviours from escalating.
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