Articles

Skill Mix, Staffing Ratios and Deployment in Dementia Services: Designing Safe Cover Across Shifts and Settings

Dementia staffing isn’t just “numbers on a rota”—it’s how skill mix, supervision and deployment match predictable risk points. This article explains how to design staffing patterns for homecare, supported living...

Supervision, Coaching and Competence Assurance in Dementia Services: Turning Training Into Consistent Practice

Dementia services need supervision that changes practice, not just checks wellbeing. This article sets out a supervision and coaching model that tests competence in real scenarios, strengthens escalation and safeguarding,...

Training and Practice Competence in Dementia Services: Moving Beyond Compliance to Real-World Capability

Training matrices don’t prevent poor dementia care—practice competence does. This article explains how to build a dementia training and competency framework that improves day-to-day delivery, supports least restrictive practice, strengthens...

Recruitment, Induction and Safer Hiring for Dementia Services: Building a Workforce That Can Deliver Under Pressure

Dementia services need staff who can handle ambiguity, emotional intensity and shifting risk—not just complete tasks. This article sets out safer recruitment, values-based selection and induction design for homecare, supported...

Supervision, Coaching and Competency Assurance in Dementia Services: Making Practice Consistent Under Pressure

In dementia services, supervision only works when it focuses on real scenarios: distress, refusal, safeguarding risk, medication concerns and deterioration. This article explains how to build supervision and coaching systems...

Skill Mix and Role Design in Dementia Services: Getting Staffing Right for Safety, Dignity and Continuity

Dementia services fail when the staffing model is built around tasks rather than decision-making, relationships and predictable pressure points like distress, deterioration and family anxiety. This article explains how to...

Induction and Training Pathways for Dementia Staff: From Compliance to Real Practice Competence

Dementia training only adds value when it changes what staff do in real situations: distress, refusal, deterioration, safeguarding and risk enablement. This article sets out a practical induction and ongoing...

Recruitment and Retention in Dementia Services: Building Stability Without Sacrificing Quality

Dementia services depend on continuity, relationships and reliable decision-making under pressure, which makes workforce stability a quality and safety issue, not just an HR issue. This article explains how to...

Assuring Dementia Practice Competence: Supervision, Observation and Safe Escalation

Training completion alone doesn’t prove dementia competence. Providers need supervision, observation and governance that demonstrate how staff make safe decisions, reduce distress and respond to deterioration in real time. This...

Dementia Workforce and Skill Mix: Building a Competent, Safe Service in England

Dementia care quality is heavily shaped by workforce design: the right roles, the right competence, and reliable supervision day-to-day. This article sets out how to plan skill mix, develop practice...