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Archive: Feb 2017

1. Autism Awareness

   2nd February 2017 4:10 pm Leave a Comment

   The government has acknowledged how important it is for certain people to understand how limited their understanding of autism actually is. While most professionals know something about autism, they do not necessarily understand how autism affects people

   Without awareness and understanding of the condition recognising autism and communicating appropriately is very difficult.

   The recommendations from the 2010 Autism Strategy ‘ Fulfilling and Rewarding Lives’ include:

   • We recommend that autism awareness training should be included within general equality and diversity training programmes across all public services (2.8)
   • It is important that adults with autism and their carers are involved in developing and delivering training (2.9)
   • We believe it is essential that autism awareness training is available to all staff in the criminal justice sector (2.14)
   • We believe it is essential that autism awareness training is available to everyone working in health and social care (2.16)
   • We believe that autism awareness training should be part of the core training curricula for doctors, nurses and other clinicians (2.23)

    

   Those who work in health and social care need to be able to identify potential signs of autism. They must understand how to adjust their behaviour and the way they communicate with adults who have autism. The ‘Autism skills and knowledge’ list was produced by Skills for Care (2011) and was developed with the aim of improving the awareness of autism and skills among those working in generic health and social care services. The list is intended to enable individual workers, or services and teams, to work out whether they have the knowledge and skills needed to provide a good service to people who have autism.

   The Autism Strategy aims to increase the understanding of autism by improving autism awareness training for all frontline public service staff, in line with the needs of their job, and developing specialist training for staff in health and social care.

   Part of autism awareness training is getting the trainees to view things as an autistic person would see it. This helps to create a much better understanding and enables carers to give more effective support to those with autism.

   Contact LCE Training Services to find out more about our autism awareness certificate.

   Tel: 07902 416 089

2. Dealing with dementia

   4:11 pm Leave a Comment

   With some 850,000 people in the UK suffering from dementia, and numbers set to rise to more than 1 million within the next 8 years, the Alzheimer’s Society say more training is needed to ensure people with dementia receive the highest quality of care and the challenges of dementia are met.

   Unfortunately a high proportion of those caring for dementia sufferers have had no specialist training. Understanding the various types of dementia, learning how to manage it, and having a greater awareness of the many sensitive issues sufferers and their families face will result in better quality of life and lower overall care costs.

   This report by the Alzheimer’s Society shows that dementia costs the NHS 4.3 billion per year, yet 95% of all challenging behaviours in homes for people who have dementia are caused by the staff due to their lack of understanding of the condition.

   The Alzheimer’s Society calls for staff providing formal care to people with dementia to receive dementia training and commissioners to ensure that care staff have access to specialist support. Specialist training will enable staff to recognise and respond to the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in the right way causing less panic and stress to both the sufferer and carer.

   FACTS–Source

   • Two thirds of the cost of dementia is paid by people with dementia and their families
   • Unpaid carers supporting someone with dementia save the economy £11 billion a year
   • Dementia is one of the main causes of disability later in life, ahead of cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke. As a country we spend much less on dementia than on these other conditions
   • 225,000 will develop dementia this year, that’s one every three minutes
   • 1 in 6 people over the age of 80 have dementia
   • 70 per cent of people in care homes have dementia or severe memory problems

   This video was created by nurses at Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital to raise awareness of dementia among staff

   Go online for more information on Dementia Awareness training courses.

   If you would like to secure spots for delegates for this training, please contact LCE Training Services on 07902 416 089.

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