| CODE | GDM5116 | ||||||
| TITLE | Practice Placement: Community and Residential Services for Dementia Care | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Gerontology and Dementia Studies | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | To deliver the best possible ageing and dementia care services, projects need to be efficiently managed and ethically secure. Building on the theoretical knowledge assimilated in the previous study-units, this ‘handson’unit attempts to address salient issues relating to proactive planning and management approaches in the ageing and dementia care sector. This study-unit will focus on diverse aspects related to the management of interpersonal and organisational issues related to social and health care services towards older persons with dementia - including project management, health care services and social work initiatives that are conducive to the dynamic nature of contemporary ageing and dementia care settings. Students will also be expected to reflexively evaluate their on-going fieldwork. This will allow students to critically appraise their skills in providing acceptable levels of social and health services to older persons in general, as well as those with dementia. The Practice Placement will be organised over one month, were students will be available for the placements from 8.00am - 3.00pm. This study-unit will be coordinated by an expert lecturer on ageing and dementia care, who also holds extensive experience in the care and service delivery for the older persons both at community and care home settings. Study-Unit Aims: Drawing from sociological, psychological and biological theories of ageing and dementia care, this unit is aimed at enabling students to build their understanding on the fundamental precepts and approaches to effective, efficient and professional ageing and dementia care practices. It aims at encouraging students to develop into reflective and reflexive health and social care professionals. Students will also be encouraged to critically reflect on their own leadership, management and caring styles and professional practice, and how these may be improved and developed for the betterment of service users. Emphasis will thus be made on the requisite characteristics and skills required for sound professional judgements and empowering and ethically sensitive care services in ageing and dementia care settings. Tutors will also lead students to reflect and improve their skills in human resources planning and capacity building, supervision, and effective service design and management. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - recognise the human resources and financial challenges in providing quality social and health care for older persons with dementia; - illustrate the increasing need for training of social and health professionals in their efforts to provide community and residential services to older persons with dementia; - report how the extent that community care services have been overshadowed by residential care facilities due to the overriding interests of human resources interests and economic efficiency; - review the extent that community and care home services offer something unique in their own right; - describe the extent that residential facilities continue as a negative form of institutional care, one which limits autonomy and personal choice, and the possibility for older persons with dementia to engage in active citizenship; 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - examine the day-to-day situations experienced by service users and social/health care professionals in dementia care settings; - evaluate the level of involvement of older persons with dementia in the decision-making process of the service/programme under focus; - inspect the extent to which the services and programmes in dementia care aid the older persons with dementia to remain integrated in society and engage in active citizenship; - investigate how, at the level of society, residential care is a symbol of structured dependency for older people with dementia, and a place where an ageist society can segregate and exclude vulnerable persons who experience a decline in their mental and physical functioning; - list the reasons that demonstrate how community and domiciliary care constitutes the ideal way to integrate and include older persons with dementia as full citizens; and - report how residential care tends to negate the possibility for older persons to exercise their human rights. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: Bourgeois, M.S. and Hickey, E.M. (2009). Dementia: From diagnosis to management: A functional approach. East Sussex: Psychology Press. (Available in Library) Leichsenring, K and Alaszewski, A.M. (2004) Providing Integrated Health and Social Care for Older Persons A European Overview at Stake. Surrey: Ashgate. (Available in Library) Leichsenring, K and Billings, J. (2005) (eds) Integrated Health and Social Care for Older Persons: Evidence form Nine Countries, Surrey: Ashgate. (Available in Library) Moniz-Cook, E. and Manthorpe, J. (2008). Psychosocial interventions in early dementia: Evidence-based practice. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. (Available in Library) Supplementary Readings: Cantley, C. (2001). (ed.) A handbook of dementia care. Buckingham: Open University Press. (Available in Library) Curran, S. and Wattis, J.P. (2004). Practical management of dementia : a multi-professional approach. London; Radcliffe Medical. (Available in Library) Grealy, J., McMullen, H. and Grealy, J. (2005). Dementia care: A practical photographic guide. Oxford: Blackwell. (Available in Library) Challis, D. Sutcliffe, C., Hughes, J. Abendorff, R. Brown, P. and Chesterman, J. (2009). (eds.) Supporting people with dementia at home: Challenges and opportunities for the 21st century. Surrey: Ashgate. (Available in Library) Downs, M. and Bowers, B.J. (2008). Excellence in dementia care : research into practice. Buckingham: Open University Press. (Available in Library) Shea, T. (2012). Dementia. New York: Rosen Publishers. (Available in Library) Barlett, R. and O'Connor, D. (2011). Broadening the dementia debate: Towards social citizenship. Bristol: University Press. (Available in Library) |
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