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What is your pain behaviour? Did you realise that we have different ways of expressing our pain dependent on several factors including our personality, previous experience and learned behaviours? Add to that the specific circumstance in our current pain moment, including physical, social and emotional influences and you can see how complex a pain response can be. Some of us will become very quiet and withdrawn whereas others will become very vocal about our experience. Some of us will pace to relieve the pain and some of us might even get angry, doors might be slammed and cross words exchanged ..read more

By Alana Grant, QCS Product Manager, Social Care Solutions The QCS Dementia Centre, which gives providers all they need to deliver and evidence great dementia care, has a useful new feature called Assign to help improve workload management. Although managers could always conduct a PAL assessment for a service user directly from their Dementia Centre screen, they can now assign a particular individual to conduct the assessment. And they no longer need to manually allocate staff every month (or however often required) to conduct assessments for each service user. Now, once assigned, the system w ..read more

Quality Compliance System (QCS) is delighted to announce that its Dementia Care Champion, Jackie Pool, has been awarded The Journal of Dementia’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Part of the not-for-profit’s National Dementia Care Awards 2022, it recognises her significant contribution to improving the quality of life for people living with dementia. Jackie plays an integral role with QCS in creating a progressive best practice dementia strategy for care providers. QCS has fully supported Jackie to advance the QCS PAL Instrument she developed, a validated tool for assessing the cognitive ..read more

When it comes to mealtimes, do you know what best practice is and how you can create a positive environment for people living with dementia? Learn more from QCS and apetito experts in our latest webinar. What you will learn: This webinar is an opportunity for you to clearly understand the best practices for dementia friendly dining. The discussion will cover: How dementia friendly dining positively impacts the wellbeing and health of those living with dementia Enabling independence as much as possible when dining Creating the optimum environment when dining for people living with dementia Yo ..read more

Do you want to build your confidence in delivering activities for people at all levels of cognitive ability? Learn more from Jackie Pool, our Dementia Care Champion and Founder of the PAL Tool, in our latest masterclass. Jackie helps you to build confidence through: You understanding the underpinning theory of the PAL Instrument Practicing using the PAL Instrument Exploring how to get the most out of the PAL Guides for individual and group activities Planning how to implement the use of the PAL into your place of work The sharing of ideas and asking of questions to promote discussion and opti ..read more

  Join our Dementia Care Champion, and Founder of the PAL Tool, Jackie Pool for a FREE & interactive masterclass on the QCS PAL Instrument Date: 20th July Time: 1:30pm – 3:00pm BOOK YOUR PLACE FOR FREE NOW! What you will learn: In this masterclass, Jackie will aim to build your confidence in delivering activities for people at all levels of cognitive ability. This will be achieved by: You understanding the underpinning theory of the PAL Instrument Practicing using the PAL Instrument Exploring how to get the most out of the PAL Guides for individual and group activities Plann ..read more

What do we mean by meaningful engagement and why does it matter in dementia care? As an Occupational Therapist specialising in dementia and the founder of the PAL Instrument, a tool that helps carers to assess the cognitive and functional ability of people, these are two questions that I have been exploring and trying to make sense of for the best part of three decades. On the surface, as defined by the Canadian Alzheimer’s Society, “meaningful engagement is a person-centred approach that encourages and invites people living with dementia to participate in an organisation’s work with purpose a ..read more

Parkinson is a progressive neurological condition which causes problems in the brain and gets worse over time. Parkinson’s UK estimates that there are around 145,000 people were living with a Parkinson’s diagnosis in 2020. Although many people are familiar with the physical symptoms of the disease such as the tremors and imbalance, they are often less aware that in later stages, dementia is prevalent. Recent studies following people with Parkinson’s estimate that 50 to 80% of those with the disease may experience dementia. There are two main types of dementia that affect some people with Parki ..read more

Quality Compliance Systems (QCS), the leading provider of content, guidance and standards for the social care sector, has introduced its new QCS PAL Engagement Measure to its Dementia Centre resource. The tool helps carers get it right when providing person-centred care for individuals with dementia. The QCS PAL Engagement Measure is the latest addition to the QCS Dementia Centre information and best practice resource. We have designed it to measure the level of engagement in a chosen activity for people with dementia. The concept of meaningful engagement, I believe, matters when it comes to d ..read more