Connect in Care

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Connect in Care

• Dr Esther Walker
• Gerontology Interest Group
• 26th August

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What is it?

• a network for staff involved in caring for older
  people wherever that care takes place
• Supporting learning practice development
• a 3 year project funded by NHS Education for
  Scotland NHS Quality Improvement Scotland in
  partnership with the Care Commission (started
  2007).

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Challenges

• There is a wealth of knowledge information
  about best practice out there, but most of it
  isnt being used to develop practice Knowledge
  Exchange (Researcher/practitioner)
• There is excellent, innovative work being done
  but often in isolation Knowledge Exchange
  (Practitioner/practitioner)
• Changing practice is a complex, challenging
  process requiring particular skills and
  understanding Skills Development.

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Connections between

• The experience of caring the experience of
  being cared for.
• The perspectives, experience, ideas practice of
  different staff members working across settings.
• What we know, what we learn, what we do.
• Our attitudes towards aging their impact on
  care.

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How?

• Projects across Scotland (n12)
• Learning events inside care settings
• Developing practical, creative resources to
  support PD
• Website www.connect-in-care.net

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Engagement Process

story
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Why use stories?

• Accessible
• Generate interest (by making personal, emotional
  connections)
• Enable engagement with complex issues
• Widens our viewpoint (different perspectives)
• Prepares ground for understanding the value
• of research what to do with it
• of our own practice

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Knowledge Exchange Practitioner/Practitioner

• Nutrition how to persuade people of the need for
  change?

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Your reactions

• What are you immediate reactions to this story?
  (words/phrases)
• Do you recall an experience of your own?
• What connections do you make?

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Knowledge Exchange Researcher/practitioner

• Supporting Older People in Care Homes at Night
  disseminating research
• Diana Kerr, Heather Wilkinson (Univ. Of
  Edinburgh), Colm Cunningham (Univ. Of Stirling)

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Sometimes I feel isolated and it plays havoc
with your eating patterns. At 3am I could murder
for a Snickers bar, but in the morning I dont
feel like having breakfast and going to
bed. When I get home my kids are home from
school and my wife and I get their tea on the
table, but I just want a piece of toast!