MAKING LIFE EASIER FOR CARERS: Oxon / Bucks & beyond

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27. Continence support — May 23, 2019

27. Continence support

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Continence is one of the topics I’m most asked about, yet is often an incredibly sensitive subject to broach or prepare for.  It’s an important topic.  Continence confidence can boost health, self esteem and make life easier all round.  Read on for how to broach this topic, free support and more practically, how to prepare a bathroom for all eventualities…

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20. Oxon and Bucks older adult service providers — October 6, 2018

20. Oxon and Bucks older adult service providers

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I’ve attempted to pull together a definitive list of the links to older adult service providers in Bucks.  I’ve also added many available in Oxon.  All of them know and support their Local Authority (LA) older adult care services.

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11. Why you need a Care Plan and how to write it (copy mine) — March 11, 2018

11. Why you need a Care Plan and how to write it (copy mine)

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You need a Care Plan when you start having to explain to others how best to support your elder.  If other family members offer help while you’re elsewhere *yay*, it saves you having to explain what to do. The care plan also expresses the current preferences of the person needing extra care.

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9. Capturing a life’s story — February 14, 2018
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Marj's journal.

9. Capturing a life’s story

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I’d like to highlight what I think is one of the most important parts of a ‘care plan’. The bit that attempts to convey a little of the life history, passions, interests and preferences of the person being cared for. That way helpers don’t just see an ‘old person’, they see an individual.

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6. Happy New Year (and our ‘resolutions’)! — December 31, 2017

6. Happy New Year (and our ‘resolutions’)!

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Christmas Day

We hope your Christmas was peaceful, no one needed a hospital admission and everyone got some well earned rest and recreation.  If you were working over the period at all, in vital services like the NHS, emergency services or caring > thank you very much. Any resolutions?

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