Caring for Dementia patients has unique challenges including dealing with erratic behaviour and personality disorders. Working in such overwhelming situations can result in serious lapses in patient care like medication errors
How can eMAR help dementia care homes?
70% of patients in the care homes are living with dementia.*1 Among all types of dementia, Alzheimer’s is the most common type.
Other types of dementia include:
People with mild dementia can manage most of the daily activities on their own. However, as the disease becomes severe the patients can no longer perform even the basic activities. They need help and support at every stage. We help dementia care homes improve their medication administration or dementia medication management by using our electronic mar sheet and let the care home staff spend more time with the residents to give them emotional support.
There are 3 parameters where dementia care homes benefit the most from eMAR.
We’re keen to be progressive and are always looking for ways to make it easier for our staff.
The staff at Electronic MAR have been great in providing training to get us set up.
We can train a new member of staff to use the product in around half an hour.
Our staff have picked it up very quickly – even those who aren’t particularly used to using technology.
Electronic MAR makes it easy to see when medicine has been administered…
We were using traditional paper MAR sheets…
Hft are a national charity providing support to over 3,000 people with learning difficulties.
Hft, a national charity providing services for people with learning disabilities, have a forward thinking attitude to how technology can enhance and improve the service that they provide. To that end they have engaged in the development of a digital version of the traditional medical record sheet.
