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Guidance for Care Homes - Implementing Namaste Care
This guide is designed to support care home organisations who wish to implement Namaste Care. It should be read together with its partner guide: ‘Guidance for Namaste Workers: Delivering Namaste Care’. This guide focuses on supporting care home organisations to plan, deliver and evaluate Namaste Care for their residents. The Namaste Workers’ guide addresses the details of running Namaste Care sessions. These guidance documents have been developed following a 3-year research project and as such are based in the experience of care home organisations and practitioners. Selected quotes or examples from their practice are used throughout. To read the full research project report go to: www.worc.ac.uk/dementia This guidance is not intended to replace the original book: Simard, J (2013) “The end of life Namaste Care program for people with dementia.” In addition, St Christopher’s Hospice have developed a toolkit for Namaste Care which is also a valuable resource.It is available at: www.stchristophers.org.uk
Guidance for Namaste Care Workers
This guide is designed to support Namaste Care Workers: those staff in care homes who are going to be running Namaste Care sessions. It should be read together with its partner guide: ‘Guidance for Care Homes: Implementing Namaste Care’. This guide focuses on the specifics of Namaste Care sessions whereas the care home guide gives information on how to plan, deliver and evaluate Namaste Care for residents. These guidance documents have been developed following a 3-year research project and as such are based in the experience of care home organisations and practitioners. Selected quotes or examples from their practice are used throughout. To read the full research project report go to:www.worc.ac.uk/dementia This guidance is not intended to replace the original book: Simard, J (2013) “The end of life Namaste Care program for people with dementia.” In addition, St Christopher’s Hospice have developed a toolkit for Namaste Care which is also a valuable resource.It is available at: www.stchristophers.org.uk
St Christopher's Toolkit
The St Christopher’s Toolkit/manual to support care homes to implement Namaste is free to download.
Please send us an email at info@namastecare-near.org to receive this toolkit and we will send you the pdf!
The Namaste Care Guide
This handbook was created with input and feedback from the Trial team and following consensus workshops with nursing home staff and family carers for which we are very grateful. With many thanks to Min Stacpoole, Dr Amanda Thompsell and Dr Jo Hockley who created the original Namaste Handbook for St Christopher's Hospice from which this handbook was developed.
