AHP contribution to 8 pillar model

• AHP group challenged to support the Dementia national action plan point 8 in acute setting; work as equal partners with families, friends and carers.

• Investigated current AHP practice in acute setting by looking at use of Getting to know me forms.

Lyndsay Stewart

Pilot to improve Personalised approach

• Implement and audit a number of changes within selected acute wards to ensure getting to know me forms utilised and patient and carer experience improved

• Ensure best practiced maintained within acute setting

• Future developments identifiedLyndsay Stewart

Viewpoint from a carer

My mum was very poorly and how would they know when mum needed a drink? My mum could not ask at this time, but I always knew. She would smack her lips very softly to me and I would know mum was thirsty and needed a drink.

How would they know my mum was very fearful when people spoke too loudly or when too many people gathered near her? After all it was always just mum and me at home.

But the big question was, and for me still is, is how would they know who Joan Whitelaw is?

That’s important. It has to be; if we don’t know who people truly are, who they have been and how we can help them still to be, then we can’t really say we are caring

Tommy Whitelaw (Tommy kindly allowed us to take this abridged quote from his blog dated 01/12/2014

Lyndsay Stewart