Teleheath and telecare in support of people with dementia and their carers
Author
Dr Stella Clark, Clinical Lead for Mental Health, NHS24
MB ChB, FRCPsych, MPhil, MBA
Abstract
NHS 24 is a telehealth organisation which provides a range of telehealth and telecare services to the Scottish popluation based around the themes of unscheduled care,improving access to services and improving access to health information.
Dementia service developments are a key component of NHS 24′s Mental Health Strategic Framework which was approved in 2011.
This presentation will describe recent telecare and telehealth developments to support people with dementia and their carers remain safely at home or in the community with access to appropriate information and assessment/treatment services provided at a distance using technologies such as video-conferencing, digital TV, computers and eviromental monitoring. The service developments are being informed by focus groups with carers and people with Dementia. Examples will include the provision of video-conference enabled training, assesment, treatment, follow-up and end of life care to people living in a remote carehome who experience behaviour which care staff find challenging.
About the author
Stella graduated from Aberdeen University in 1982. She trained in old age and general psychiatry and has been a Consultant Psychiatrist since 1991. She has been involved in health service management since 1998, completing a Masters of Business Administration in 1999 and has been Medical Director of Primary Care services in Fife since 2002. She was appointed Clinical Lead for Mental Health within NHS 24 in 2010. She continues to practice as an Old Age Psychiatist provided liaison services to intermediate care in Fife, Scotland. Her MPhil thesis (1990) examined the prevalence of anxiety and deperssion in new admissions to care homes. Her current reseach interest is in the use of psychotropic medication use in dementia in comminuty settings.
Occupational Therapist/Business Research ManagerThe secret life of people with dementia
Author
Ellen Bragger, Occupational Therapist/Business Research Manager, Just Checking Ltd
Bachelor Degree in Occupational Therapy, Otago Polytechnic, NZ
Abstract
If you live alone, and start displaying memory problems, there’s a tendency for people to step in with a focus on risk.
‘Activity monitoring’, using simple movement sensors around the house, provides a clearer, objective picture of a person’s capabilities. Using case studies, this paper will explore how the familiarity of home helps people to function, and how a better understanding of a someone’s natural routines leads to support which is more enabling, appropriate, flexible, and leaves the person in control .
The speaker will report on experiences of health and social care practitioners in the UK where the majority of social services authorities use activity monitoring for assessment and care planning. The paper will conclude with the results of an activity monitoring trial with Alzheimer’s Australia WA.
About the author
Ellen Bragger has worked in New Zealand and UK Hospitals providing complex discharge planning for people over 65 with a special interest in dementia care. From 2007 to 2011 she pioneered the introduction of the Just Checking activity monitoring system in the UK with social services and health trusts, educating practitioners in ethical practice when using new technology. She completed a research project with Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust Occupational therapists in 2009 to review the effectiveness of using activity monitoring as an assessment tool. In 2011 she moved to Perth where she is running an activity monitoring pilot with Alzheimer’s Australia WA.
After hours – risk and rescue: an after hours approach to care.
Authors
Bev Allen, Head of Region AtHomeCare South, HammondCare
Masters of Gerontology, Certificate IV in Frontline Management
With Kim Coady and the At-Home South Care Team, HammondCare
Abstract
[Coming soon]
About the author
Bev oversees HammondAtHome services in South Sydney, the Illawarra Region and the Central West Region of New South Wales. Bev has thirty years of nursing and managerial experience, seventeen of those years in aged care. Prior to joining HammondCare in 2003, Bev held positions in aged care rehabilitation, specialist dementia care at Carunya Dementia Day Therapy Centre and in residential aged care.
With extensive experience and firm leadership Bev has developed a skilled, supported and motivated workforce who contributes to managing the diverse needs of clients at home across a wide geographical area of NSW.