One page profile e-learning course

Part of e-Learning courses

This e-learning course will help you achieve excellent person-centred care and support by learning about and using one-page profiles.

Getting to know the person with dementia: the importance of memories

Part of Dementia

This film for health and care staff and managers highlights the importance of getting to know the person with dementia. Learning about their memories and experiences, understanding the person's history and their likes and dislikes. It won its category (Best factual new media) at the Older People Media Awards 2013.

Getting to know the person with dementia: the impact of diagnosis

Part of Dementia

This film for health and care staff, managers, people with dementia and those who know them, is about the importance of getting to know the person with dementia, learning about their memories and experience, understanding their history and their likes and dislikes.

Quality in social care: achieving excellence in care homes for older people

In this video, people who use services and social care academics consider the quality of care and support offered in care homes. The panel discusses how standards of care across the sector can be raised so that all older people can experience the quality of care demonstrated in this care home.

Living in a care home: a positive outcome for a person with dementia

Part of Dementia

Use this video to convince people of the value of high quality care homes for people with dementia. It can be used for training to help improve practices in any setting. It highlights the key areas of improving quality of life for someone with dementia and it shows what good care looks like, which can be comforting.

End of life care: dying at home

This video for care managers and staff highlights two services which support people to die at home – one is in Lancashire and the other is a service for the Bangladeshi and Bengali communities in London.

Personalisation for older people: supported housing

Part of Personalisation

Social care training video showing how personalisation can work for older people living in purpose-built supported accommodation.

End of life care: achieving dignity for those with dementia

This video illustrates the steps involved in supporting a person with dementia to die well. It is crucial for health and care staff to recognise when they enter the final weeks and days of their life and to respond with person-centred care and support for them and their family.

Commissioning for personalisation: London

Part of Personalisation

This video for social care commissioners looks at two inner London authorities where personalisation has led to a total rethink of commissioning. It highlights how the councils have reformulated their commissioning processes allowing people who use the services to be resources in their own right.

Personalisation for older people: residential care

Part of Personalisation

This film for social care and care home commissioners and staff, is introduced by the manager of a residential care home for older people with dementia who talks about the importance of understanding the individual, their interests, background and personal history to maintain dignity and wellbeing.