Understanding My Life
To ensure everyone has information about dementia and are aware of the ways they can minimise their risk of developing dementia.
How:
- Implement dementia care awareness and information events to our local communities.
- Work in partnership with local dementia societies.
- Work to ensure every community, people of working age and those with sensory impairments have access to information about dementia.
- Ensure risk reduction messages are accessible to everyone through resource tools.
Diagnosis & Assessing My Life
How:
- Informal and conversational meetings to develop rapport and trust.
- Obtain key information from family and friends.
- Initial care plans written before admission and communication to staff.
- Provide information programmes to assist with diagnosis.
- Pre-admission – understand what is important in My Life
Supporting My Life
How:
- We will recruit support workers/ resident representatives who are passionate, inspiring and empathetic.
- We will create and build education and training programmes to improve the knowledge and skills of everyone working with our residents at every stage of their life.
- We will improve the communication between all communities to share their specialist skills and support best practice.
- We will create My Life Ambassadors who will work consistently across the organisation to improve the quality of care and support given.
- We will support new team members by building a robust induction plan.
- We will inspire and work in collaboration with families & friends.
Living My Life
How:
- We will maintain and design services delivering evidence based, quality support and care at every point of need for our residents.
- We will improve the offer and uptake of assistive technology for people living life with dementia to support their independence.
- We will provide socially fulfilling lifestyles, individually tailored to meet the needs of our residents throughout their life.
- We will maintain our dementia friendly environments to include personalisation and familiarity, orientation and sensory cues.
- We will focus on what our residents can and continue to do, learning new skills and maintaining their independence.
- We will maintain a dignified and unique dining experience that caters for individual preference and physical needs, to improve health & wellbeing.
End Of My Life
Ensure more people with dementia have an advance plan of care that describes their wishes for the end of their lives
How:
- We will embed advance care planning for people living life with dementia.
- We will empower support workers to feel confident and compassionate in their role, offering knowledge and increased skills in end-of-life care.
- We will focus on maximising comfort and choice of the person with dementia ensuring all their needs and wishes are met.
- We will provide spiritual, cultural and religious support for the person with dementia and their families.
- We will work across the organisation and external specialists to improve the care for people dying with dementia.
