Blog
15
blog posts
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22 Oct 2026
Part 1 - Why personal care can be distressing
This blog looks at using therapeutic engagement to support personal care in dementia and why personal care can be distressing.
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22 Oct 2026
Part 2 - Reframing "Resistance to care"
This blog emphasises the importance of person-centred, therapeutic engagement, trust-building, and involving people with dementia in their care.
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22 Oct 2026
Part 3 - Communicating during care
This blog explores how recognising communication cues, assessing pain and taking time to build trust can reduce distress and improve person-centred dementia care.
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11 Mar 2026
Talk to us, not about us: how we co-produced a dementia documentary
This blog is written together by two people with different but equally important perspectives: a practitioner working in older people’s and dementia care, and a man living with dementia who helped co-produce a documentary for health and social care staff.
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19 Jan 2026
A partnership approach to grief literacy
To mark National Grief Awareness Week, Queen's University Belfast united 11 bereavement organisations to equip nursing students with essential grief literacy - for supporting bereaved individuals and maintaining professional wellbeing.
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12 Dec 2025
My First Experience with End-of-Life Care
A reflection.
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4 Aug 2025
Rethinking a dementia journey
For people living with dementia, a healthcare journey can feel confusing, overwhelming, and frightening whether it's a routine appointment or a blue-light emergency. For staff, especially those in transport or emergency care, supporting someone with cognitive impairment can be equally complex, particularly under pressure.
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9 Jul 2025
Focusing on frailty is key to reducing falls
Falls and frailty are linked in a cycle of harm. In this blog, I share why to prevent falls in older people living with frailty, we need to shift our focus away from a sole focus on risk avoidance and towards preventing and reversing frailty.
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9 Jul 2025
Time matters: embracing a person centred approach to discharge planning
Discharge planning is a crucial component of patient care that often goes unnoticed until it becomes a pressing issue. This Blog looks at embracing a person centred approach to discharge planning.
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3 Jul 2025
Supporting older people across the frailty pathway
How can each of us in our individual roles support older people across the Frailty Pathway?
