Stirling Council, UK Adult Learning in Stirling, 5 Mar 2012

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From YouTube: Aspire Project with Adult Learning, Stirling Council

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Integrated English and dementia training delivered to migrant workers in the care sector in the Stirling area

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Ed gibbon team, leader, adult learning:, the aspire project is a joint initiative between stirling council, adult learning team and the european.

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Social fund., it was established to support people who maybe found themselves a.

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Bit vulnerable in the workplace, either because of low skill level, because of.

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Poor english skills or language skills, or maybe because they had a health issue that was preventing them from.

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Moving on at work. in the last couple of years, the aspire project has supported over three.

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Hundred people. training is tailored very much to the individual needs of the.

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Employer in the workplace, we came up with the idea to do some.

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Combined training with dementia and esol for employees in care, homes.

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That would then want to help improving communication residents.

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What we’ve also found generally across the health care profession.

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Is that there isn’t actually any specific dementia awareness training for the staff employed in this field?.

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– and generally, we felt that this provision is really important in addressing this skill. Gap.

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Training happened in six care homes across the stirling area,.

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One of which was westerlands care, home.

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irene, sharp,, westerlands care home manager:. The training has had a very positive effect.

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For both staff and residents.

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The staff had another and support staff barrier to overcome,.

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The fact that english wasn't their first language.

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So, therefore, the fact that the training ran alongside the dementia.

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Training and english classes together.

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That really helped.

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Clip from lesson … (indistinct vocal).

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He will not what you want.

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Ed gibbon, team leader, adult learning: esol tutors, then provided input on helping the participants.

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Understanding of the dementia awareness training and then reinforced some key communication skills as part of their input.

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Clip from lesson … (indistinct vocal) anthony all we know: jennifer roberts,, external training, co-ordinator, alzheimer scotland:.

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Within this particular programme, alzheimer scotland covered person centred.

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Care so looking at everyone as individuals and their individual preferences,.

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Life history, things like that..

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We also look at communications, helping care workers to communicate with people.

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Who perhaps don’t always have the easiest way of remembering words, etc?

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We look at behaviour that people find challenging and give them practical tips.

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And solutions to help manage this., and also we talk about taking into account the effects the environment.

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So lights, mirrors, carpets,.

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Chairs that sort of thing. clip from lesson (indistinct voices).

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Ed gibbon, team leader, adult learning: care staff, are now much more comfortable and confident in taking the.

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Taking the time to communicate with the understand their needs,.

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Nicola hodge, esol tutor.

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Have learnt so much with the use of dementia vocabulary.

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It has made such a difference to them to be able to communicate with the residents in a confident.

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And professional manner.

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Liene, care worker:. This training has given me a deeper insight.

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In persons who suffer from dementia, about their lives, they used to live.

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Before illness and it’s, giving me more confidence engaging in a personal conversation.

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So like doing a life story book or a reminiscence.

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And it makes a deeper bond not feel like a stranger anna, care. Worker:, so aspire programme was very, very helpful.

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It helped me to understand residents who suffer dementia.

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It helped me to improve my communication skills skills and what I liked the most was.

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Visit in stirling university, iris murdoch, centre,.

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Which was organised by our english tutor nicola,.

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It was brilliant,, absolutely brilliant.

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Katarzyna, care worker:. I have more confidence in explaining to them why they can’t go home and I have, I know,.

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Also, the different types of dementia.

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Adrienne, care worker:. I'm really grateful for this opportunity.. It was a very exciting opportunity to take part in this project.

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We learned plenty about dementia different types of dementia,.

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How to deal with people who live here., so it made our work.

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Much easier with them.

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The residents benefited from this training because we learned about communication,. We could improve our communications skills.

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So when we are talking with them, they feel we are speaking with them with respect and politely, so they can feela very friendly atmosphere.

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And they feel much more comfortable. clip from residents (indistinct vocals) marianne eik, aspire project coordinator.

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The project owes a great deal of it's success to the commitment.

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Westerlands care home managers and because of this.

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They were given the aspire award for best employer.

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In 2011, ed gibbon, team leader, adult learning: well,, although the dementia training has now come to an end, we’re absolutely sure that.

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Westerlands care home has continued their partnership with the adult learning team.

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And a good number of the care home staff continue to participate in english language classes, which we hope will continue to help the to improve their english language skills. And thus the communication with residents.