Developing Excellent Care for People Living with Dementia in Care Homes (University of Bradford Dementia Good Practice Guides)

The awardwinning PEARL (Positively Enriching and enhancing Residents Lives) programme was developed to enable care homes to move from providing good fundamental care to excellent personcentred dementia care. Trialled extensively by one of the UKs largest care providers, it has been proven to dramatically increase the quality of life of people with dementia living in care homes, significantly reducing the use of antipsychotics and the incidence of stressrelated behaviours. This concise and accessible guide, written by the Director of Dementia Care at the care provider which trialled and developed PEARL, describes the key criteria of the programme, and provides best practice guidelines for dementia care practitioners wishing to use the approach in their own care home. With an emphasis on the practical, achievable elements of the programme, and drawing on many useful examples, the author and contributors provide guidelines on, amongst many things, getting the fundamentals of personcentred care right; enabling decisionmaking; reducing stressrelated behaviours; psychosocial treatments; safeguarding; supporting staff; and involving relatives. This series constitutes a set of accessible, jargonfree, evidencebased good practice guides for all those involved in the care of people with dementia and their families. The series draws together a range of evidence including the experience of people with dementia and their families, practice wisdom, and research and scholarship to promote quality of life and quality of care.