Special offer from The Care Guy

If you book training from The Care Guy to be delivered before March 31st 2012 you’ll get it at a full 20% discount.

New training courses for dementia care workers

three new dementia training courses: Dementia awareness, The environment of dementia & Challenging behaviour in dementia

Dementia care training updates

Over the next few weeks The Care Guy will be updating several ‘off the peg’ dementia care courses. This will include an overhaul of training programmes on ‘Dementia awareness’, ‘Person-centred dementia care’, ‘Communication in dementia care’, ‘Challenging behaviour in dementia’ & ‘The environment of dementia’. If you have any particular needs around dementia care training [...]

Hope for people diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder

The article clearly demonstrates that the old, outdated medical model assumptions about Borderline Personality Disorder are both wrong and extremely limiting

David Chaytor – an expensive scapegoat

David Chaytor used to be the MP for Bury North. Now he resides at ‘Her Majesty’s pleasure’ in Wandsworth prison. Mr Justice Saunders, presiding over the case at Southwark Crown Court yesterday, sentenced the 61 year old fraudster to 18 months imprisonment for defrauding the taxpayer. So far as I can tell Chaytor’s fraud amounted [...]

GPS tags for mentally ill patients: what’s your opinion?

It is this notion of balance that perplexes me today. I am only too well aware of the civil rights argument but I’m also aware (painfully aware) that often the price for our ‘delicate, politically correct sensibilities’ is paid, not by activists such as myself but by the poor, lost and bewildered Alzheimer’s sufferer whose civil liberties we are trying to protect. Principle is one thing – a balanced reality is quite another. Least Restrictive Intervention is a fundamental principle of the Mental Health Act 2007. I can certainly see the argument that an electronic tag is less restrictive than incarceration in a locked hospital ward.

NHS ASBO

I wonder how long it will be before Mr. Dearlove takes the obvious next step and secures for himself up to five years worth of accommodation ‘at Her Majesty’s pleasure’ by breaching his ASBO. Perhaps instead of criminalising desperate people, the resources required to keep a homeless man in prison for five years would be better spent as part of a package providing reasonable alternatives to sleeping out.