The dementia environment in a care home

Part of Dementia

This film for care staff, managers and local authorities illustrates how simple changes to create a more dementia-friendly care home environment can have a positive impact on a person living with dementia's emotional wellbeing and independence.

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: what is excellence

In this video, people who use services and social care academics consider extracts from SCIE’s Social Care TV films to help understand quality and excellence in social care. The panel considers the quality of social care in different settings and with different people, to see how excellence can be achieved.

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.

Reablement: implications for GPs and primary care

Part of Reablement

This briefing produced with Clinical Innovation and Research Centre of the Royal College of General Practitioners focuses on research and practice evidence about reablement and explains the implications for GPs and primary care teams.

Prevention: Promoting wellbeing

Part of Prevention and wellbeing

This film for health and social care commissioners focuses on services designed to improve or maintain older people’s independence, health and wellbeing. These services are specifically aimed at reducing loneliness in later life.

Finding excellence in adult social care services: an overview of selected approaches to excellence in social care

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) commissioned the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to define excellence in adult social care service in England to inform the CQCs new quality information scheme for regulated adult care services. This overview looks at some of the tools currently in use to measure quality in social care, many of which informed our final definition.

SCIE/NICE recommendations on looked after children: Promoting the quality of life of looked-after children and young people

This is NICE and SCIE’s formal guidance on improving the physical and emotional health and wellbeing of looked-after children and young people.

Personalisation briefing: Implications for nursing homes

Part of Personalisation

This At a glance briefing produced with the Registered Nursing Home Association examines the implications of the personalisation agenda for nursing homes.

Minimising the use of 'restraint in care homes: challenges, dilemmas and positive approaches

SCIE report 25 describes the findings of a small-scale study into the complex issues facing care homes around restraint and how care home managers and staff have developed strategies for avoiding or minimising its use