Enhancing diabetes health in care homes: a Buckinghamshire perspective
Jacqui Kent/Gill Dunn, Care Homes Pharmacist/Diabetes Specialist Nurse, Aylesbury Vale and Chiltern Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)
- Guidance for CQC staff: Inspecting the quality of care for residents with diabetes
- Diabetic hypos and swallowing difficulties
- Diabetes UK – guidelines for older people resident in care homes
- Managing older people with type 2 diabetes – International Diabetes Federation
Exploring and recording the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia
Dr Leah Clatworthy, Clinical Psychologist, Milton Keynes Specialist Memory Service
Food first: identification and treatment of malnutrition in Buckinghamshire care homes
Alison Smith, Prescribing Support Dietitian, Aylesbury Vale and Chiltern CCGs
Depression
Katharina Posadzki, Mental Health Lead, Quality in Care Team, Buckinghamshire
How do people living with dementia and their carers experience and understand the changes in intimacy that accompany living with dementia?
Dr Jane Youell, Dementia Specialist & Churchill Fellow
- Youell, J., Callaghan, J., and Buchanan, K. (2015) ‘I don’t know if you want to know this’: carers’ understandings of intimacy in long-term relationships when one partner has dementia. Ageing and Society, Vol 36, Issue 5: 946-967
- Youell, J. (2015). Enabling sexual expression in people with dementia. Nursing Standard, 30(15):43-48
Improving sustainability of training: a pilot using coaches and an app
Dr Chris Allen, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Caroline Yeoman, Project Manager
Promoting oral healthcare in care homes
Kris Silvester, Clinical Lead, and Chloë McKay, Mental Health Occupational Therapist, Oxfordshire Care Home Support Service.
Dementia champions programme
Jenny Hall, Mental Health Practitioner, and Wendy Hunter, Physical Health Practitioner, Care Home Support Team, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust