Training care workers properly could prevent 20,000 deaths from dementia Additional dementia training for care home staff could save the lives of up to 20,000 people a year across Britain, research suggests.
Experts calculated that providing proper training for care assistants would cost just £4,500 for every life saved.
Assistants in Britain's 28,000 care homes usually require no formal training - and doctors say the training that is available is not based on any evidence that it actually works.
Some 70 per cent of the people in residential care homes have dementia - a population of roughly 300,000 people - and they have distinct special needs.
Yet the vast majority of them are over-medicated and left for hours at a time without any human interaction at all, with experts warning the average patient only talks to another person for two minutes every six hours. The Daily Mail
See also:
- Impact of person-centred care training and person-centred activities on quality of life, agitation, and antipsychotic use in people with dementia living in nursing homes: A cluster-randomised controlled trial (open access) PLOS Medicine
- Improving Wellbeing and Health for People with Dementia (WHELD) Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Dementia patients living in care homes are given just two minutes of social interaction a day The London Economic
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