Talking the Talk but not Walking the Walk - Barriers to Person-Centred Care in Dementia

ISBN-13: 9783639040838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 296 str.

Heather Hill

Opis

The concept of person-centred care has been around for over 20 years and attracted much interest and enthusiasm due to its humanistic approach to people with dementia. Aged care facilities however, continue to have difficulty implementing and maintaining person-centred practice. This book documents a research study in an aged care facility which tried to set up a person-centred program for their residents with dementia. Beginning with a discussion of the different perspectives on dementia and dementia care (biomedical, psycho-social, social constructionist), the author goes on to document the difficulties encountered by this facility. Various barriers to a person-centred approach are explored: institution-specific issues viewed within interpersonal, environmental, and organisational frameworks; procedural and policy issues; as well as barriers arising from differing value systems. It is this mutually influencing complex of issues which get in the way of treating people with dementia as people.This book should be of interest to staff and management within the aged care and dementia fields, as well as service providers and policy makers.

O autorze

Hill, Heather Heather Hill, PhD, worked for 20 years as a dance therapist in dementia. She is author of several publications on dementia and dance therapy. This book is inspired by the work of Kitwood and has been undertaken by her own desire to improve care. She now lectures at Melbourne Institute for Experiential and Creative Arts Therapy, Australia.