Finding Patience

These two excellent videos by Health Education are likely to be of value to housing and care staff working with people living with dementia. The films illustrate the importance of cultural awareness and a person-centred approach in dementia care.

The first, Finding Patience (opens new window) aims to raise awareness of dementia and cultural issues in the African Caribbean community in particular. Understanding the cultural heritage of individuals living with dementia enables high quality, safe, person centred care that focuses on the individual rather than the disease, and an understanding of challenges that may be rooted in a person's cultural background. This film focuses on a family discovering, understanding and coming to terms with a diagnosis of dementia in their elderly mother/grandmother.

The second film, Finding Patience - Later Years (opens new window) follows Patience as she enters a care home. Although based in this setting, it explores what makes good person-centred care and is relevant in housing with care schemes, and - in terms of understanding what person-centred care means in reality - any setting where a person with dementia lives.