The book focuses on key issues affecting the important role of the manager in a care home. It is designed to inspire inexperienced staff, energise and inform current staff and stimulate senior management.
Topics covered include:
- Learning from each other
- What it’s like being…
- Key management topics
- Promoting your home successfully
- Legal quagmires and pitfalls
- Running a safe home
- Staff: your most valuable resource
- Getting personal
- Valuing and working with residents/family/friends
- Activities
- Special challenges
- End of life care
- Reflections
Each author made ten points, creating 1000 pearls of wisdom. Kevin’s chapter is about ‘using social media successfully.’