ASSFAP: A seven stepped facilitated action planning process for recognising and meeting the spiritual needs of people with advanced dementia.

2010年，申请人完成了一项由澳大利亚人权委员会资助的工作，该工作着眼于有严重学习障碍的人的精神需求和生活。理解有深度和复杂学习障碍的人的精神生活：面向社区的行动研究方法。AH/F011482/1.本研究意外产生的产品是ASSFAP：一个七步促进行动计划。这一教育和过程工具/系统是专门为社区设计的，通过使用精神护理发展和提供的行动规划系统，探索、理解和应对严重智力和认知障碍者的精神需求。虽然这两个群体之间存在明显的差异，但人们认为，这一过程可以转移和应用到其他环境中，它可以满足各种严重沟通困难的人的需求。晚期痴呆症患者是一群人，就像那些有严重学习困难的人一样，他们经常被忽视，由于不知道该做什么和如何与他们在一起，他们可能会受到很差的照顾。这一资源为那些在专业上和在家庭中照顾他们的人提供了一种“做和存在”的方法，提高了照顾者和有沟通困难的人的生活质量。这里介绍的项目重点是使这个资源（ASSFAP）提供给照顾晚期痴呆症患者的护理人员社区;无论是住在家里，在住宿照顾或在医院。它是在护理检查员（前护理委员会）强调需要紧急关注的时候出现的。人们日益关切的是，对老年人，特别是老年痴呆症晚期患者的护理，正被缩减为所谓的“卧床和体力劳动”，这对老年人造成了巨大损害，也是我们社会的耻辱。

In 2010 the applicant completed a piece of work funded by the AHRC which looked at the spiritual needs and lives of people with profound learning disability. Understanding the spiritual lives of people with profound and complex learning disabilities: a community oriented action research approach. AH/F011482/1.A product that came unexpectedly out of this study was the ASSFAP: a seven stepped facilitated action plan. This educational and process tool/system was specifically designed to be used by communities to explore, understand and respond to the spiritual needs of people with severe intellectual and cognitive impairments through the use of an action planning system of spiritual care development and delivery. Whilst there are recognisable differences between the two populations, it was felt that this process could be transferred and applied to other settings and that it could provide for the needs of a wide range of people with profound communication difficulties.People with advanced dementia are a group of people, like those with profound learning difficulties, who are often overlooked and can be the subject of poor care through a lack of knowing what to do and how to be with them. This resource provides a method of "doing and being" for those who care for them professionally and within families, which enhances the quality of life of both the carers and the people with communication difficulties. The project presented here focuses on making this resource (ASSFAP) available to the community of carers who look after people with advanced dementia; either those who live either at home, in residential care or in hospital. It comes at a time when the care of frail elderly people has been spotlighted by The Care Inspectorate (formerly the Care Commission) as requiring urgent attention. There is growing concern that care of older people, particularly those with advanced dementia, is being reduced to what has been called "bed and body work" to the enormous detriment of the older person and shame of our society.