Understanding Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) for people who use services

Part of Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA)

Social Care TV video

This accessible five minute film provides a simple but authoritative overview of qualifying patients’ right to independent mental health advocacy. It also covers how advocates can help and what the benefits are for people who use services.

Practical approaches to minimising restraint

Social Care TV video

This video for health and care managers and staff gives two very different fictionalised examples of how good practice in care needs to take account of an individual's human rights.

Personalisation: promoting independence in care homes

Part of Personalisation

Social Care TV video

This short social care training video is about balancing risks and freedoms for a resident of a care home. It is aimed at frontline care staff, particularly care workers in care homes. Actors have been used in the drama.

End of life and palliative care: thinking about the words we use

Social Care TV video

This film uses animation and vox pops to make the case for practitioners to communicate how much they care about the person who is dying; as well as being clear about what they’re doing to help and support the person and their friends and relatives.

Dignity in care videos on Social Care TV

Social Care TV video

Dementia and sensory loss: Video introduction

Part of Dementia

Social Care TV video

This dementia training film for health and care staff highlights the importance of finding out if a person with dementia has hearing loss, sight loss or both in order to provide person-centred care.

Living with dementia

Part of Dementia

Social Care TV video

This film for health and care staff, people who use services and their families, introduces four people with dementia who are able to share their insights and experiences of living with advancing dementia.

Older people and quality of life: better life in residential care

Social Care TV video

A film that shows older people with high support needs who live in a care home. They talk about what is important in their lives and how they like to be treated.

Older people and quality of life: better life in the community

Social Care TV video

This video for older people care services and social workers, shows older people with high support needs who live in the community. They talk about what is important in their lives and how they like to be treated. It is based around the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s A Better Life programme.

Home care: commissioning for older people with complex needs

Social Care TV video

This film for commissioners of home care highlights the importance of commissioning good quality person-centred home care for older people with complex needs.