Carebase Celebrates Dignity Action Day
Carebase, a group of private care homes specialising in nursing, residential and dementia care in the South East and East Anglia, celebrated Dignity Action Day on Wednesday 1 February. This new day is when the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) asks us all to give the ‘Gift of Time’ to a person who is cared for.
The SCIE created this day to give everyone the ‘opportunity to uphold people’s rights to dignity and provide a truly memorable day for people receiving care’. Carebase homes uphold dignity at all times; it is something that makes up its core values. Carebase also ensures its residents are treated as individuals, are given choice, control and a sense of purpose in their daily lives, and are provided with stimulating activities – the exact aims that the SCIE sets down.
Members of staff across the homes wanted to use this day to give everyone more focus to promote dignity to others and to get residents thinking about what dignity means to them.
Brooklands care home in Norfolk had a coffee morning and discussed what dignity meant to them and then made a Dignity Tree on which they hung thoughts of residents’ perceptions of what dignity means. These thoughts included ‘to look nice all the time’, ‘I enjoy having people around me’, ‘I like to keep to a routine, getting up and dressed’ and ‘my religious beliefs are very important to me’.
Members of staff at Alderwood care home in Colchester spent time with the residents teaching them flower arranging. The residents produced some beautiful flower baskets and very much enjoyed the time they spent with the staff learning a new skill. The flower arrangements around the home will be a reminder to show others respect and uphold their dignity at all times.
Bramley Court’s staff discussed what it is to be treated with dignity with the residents and then created a Dignity Tree with these thoughts on, which is now displayed in the entrance. The tree’s trunk is a poem by Amanda Waring about dignity. All the residents enjoyed their time chatting with the staff who also helped with their meals that day to ensure they spent as much time as they could together.
The Dignity Action Day at Queen Elizabeth Park in Guildford saw members of the management team mucking in to help out or go that extra mile for its residents. Staff members polished the residents’ bedrooms, served lunches and helped the residents with their meals, washed the dishes and cleaned the toilets! Other members of staff brought in biscuits, sweets and bags full of goodies for the residents.
Nicola Coveney, Managing Director, Carebase, says: “We welcome this new Dignity in Action day and took advantage to remind our staff and residents what dignity means to each individual. Carebase strives to uphold every resident’s and every member of staff’s dignity at all times and the homes loved doing something a little different to celebrate Dignity in Action. Taking the time to chat to a resident, help them with their meal, play a game with them or simply sit with them is the gift of time that Carebase is proud to say all its residents enjoy every day at the care homes.”
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