What is this standard about?
PAS 800:2010 provides a guide to principles and recommendations for the use of Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) by care providers where the intention is to improve the quality of person-centred care (PCC) for persons living with dementia.
Who is this standard for?
- Anyone with responsibility for implementing, delivering and managing standards of care, quality and improvement processes within health and social care
- Providers of care homes/nursing homes
- Hospitals and healthcare providers
- Day care and interim care services who provide for those living with moderate to severe dementia
Why should you use this standard?
Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) is a set of observational tools that is used in formal dementia care and has been used both as an instrument for developing person-centred care (PCC) practice and as a research tool.
The DCM tool helps determine how levels of well-being and ill-being vary within group care facilities across the day, how people with dementia spend their time and how this is linked to their relative well and ill-being. It also looks at staff behaviour that promotes and undermines PCC. DCM tells us about how the quality of care impacts on the quality of life of those living with dementia in communal care settings and can be used to prepare staff and management teams.
PAS 800 therefore aims to ensure that care providers have comprehensive guidance to assist them in the clear strategic and operational planning needed to bring DCM into an organization as a driver for PCC practice.
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