November 2022 - "Fighting for Dignity" (2020) video for rent or purchase. https://terranova.org/film-catalog/fighting-for-dignity-a-film-on-injurious-and-fatal-resident-to-resident-incidents-in-long-term-care-homes/
2021 Caspi, Eilon. Understanding and Preventing Harmful Interactions Between Residents with Dementia Professional care providers can learn ways to avoid one of the most difficult and often tragic problems to occur in care settings: When residents with memory loss act in ways that harm another resident. Many of these episodes are preventable. Understanding what may provoke a person with dementia to respond in a physically or verbally harmful manner is the key to prevention and mitigation.
2021 Podcast interviewing author Eilon Caspi, "A Story of Neglect: Understanding and Preventing Resident-to-Resident Incidents" https://nursinghome411.org/podcast/story-of-neglect/
May 2018 Providing Person and Family Centred Care Within Behavioural Support Transition Units: The Critical Elements (Report) http://brainxchange.ca/getattachment/Public/Topics-A-to-Z/BSOCRO/Behavioural-Support-Transition-Units/BSTU-Critical-Elements-Report-FINAL.pdf.aspx
March 7, 2018 Addressing Abusive Behavior in LTC: Opportunity for Change (powerpoint slides) http://brainxchange.ca/Public/Files/Elder-Abuse/AddressingAbusiveBehaviourInLTC_OpportunitiesForCh.aspx
March 7, 2018 Brain Exchange Elder Abuse Presentations
http://brainxchange.ca/elderabuse.aspx
Dec 4, 2017 - (Date of Posting Podcast Interview with Dr. Daniel Potts) Encouraging
Compassionate Dementia Friendly Culture, Starting the Education Early! https://togetherinthis.com/episode20/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=linkedin&utm_source=socialnetwork
Nov 1, 2017 - Ont. Long Term Care Bill 33 Going to 2nd Reading
June 29, 2016 - Report - Resident to Resident Aggression in B.C. Care Homes
May 31, 2016 - Change in dementia care has positive results. The Lethbridge Herald.
May 16, 2015 - Video: It Takes A Community - A Relationship-Focused Approach to Celebrating and Supporting Old Age.
April 6, 2016 B.C. Health Minister orders review of staffing in long-term care http://www.theprovince.com/health/health+minister+orders+review+staffing+guidelines+long+term+care/11834824/story.html
January 18, 2016 Solutions start with information http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Seniors+aggression+Solutions+start+with+information/11658435/story.html?__lsa=53bf-f822
January 2016 http://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610%2815%2900640-4/fulltext Death
as a Result of Resident to Resident Altercations in Long Term Care Homes: A Need for Research, Policy and Prevention
January 2016 http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/psychiatryneuroscience/clinical_forensic.html
20 Apr 2015 - Adam Sandler movie inspires real-life program for dementia patients
2014 - The Centre for Prevention of Aggression Between Residents with Dementia, Eilon Caspi, B.S.W., M.A., PhD. - http://eiloncaspi.com/. Resident-to-Resident Aggression in Dementia Knowledge Exchange - http://eiloncaspiabbr.tumblr.com/.
26 Mar 2014 - Ecumen Awakenings (USA) http://www.ecumenawakenings.org/ is transforming Alzheimer's care. They received national recognition as winner of the LeadingAge Excellence in Dementia Care Award presented March 17 at the Great Minds Gala in Washington, D. C. They emphasize managing dementia without highly sedating drugs.
March, 2014 - Click here to obtain the results put out by the Alzheimer Society on their research for culture change promoting person-centered care in long-term care homes: PC P.E.A.R.L.S contains the seven key elements that stood out in delivering person-centered care.
March, 2014 - Click here to read overviews of the research reports done for six long-term-care homes studied as part of the Alzheimer Society's initiative of Culture Change towards Person Centred Care. One of the reports was on the Sherbrooke Community Center. This home was featured for their unique approach applying the Eden Alternative, in the latter segment of the September, 2013's W5 documentary covering resident to resident homicide.(Also see below)
Here are some ideas about how this problem is being looked at, which includes ideas from other parts of the world.
Eden Alternative: The Eden Alternative shows how companionship, the opportunity to give meaningful care to other living things, and the variety and spontaneity that mark an enlivened environment, can succeed where pills and therapies often fail. Places that have adopted the Eden Alternative typically are filled with plants, animals, and are regularly visited by children. http://www.edenalt.org/eastern-canada
14 Feb 2014 - A Saskatoon Care Home's Unique Approach for Resident's with Dementia. http://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/saskatoon-care-home-offers-unique-approach-for-residents-with-dementia-1.1686936
17 Apr 2013 - "Resident-to-Resident Aggression - A Critical Review". Please contact author Angela Gentile (amethyst7@shaw.ca) if you would like a copy of this 15-page paper. It includes all the most recent studies, reviews and recommendations on the topic.
11 Apr 2013 - Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Assaults in Nursing Homes Go Unreported
April 2007 - Building a Better System: Caring for Older Individuals with Aggressive Behaviours in Long-Term Care Homes (55 pages).
April 2005 - Document Download: Inquest - Jury Recommendations - Casa Verde - April 2005
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