St Joseph’s leads way with Butterfly Approach
Care consultancy rates nursing home as ‘Outstanding’
A nursing home is celebrating after becoming the first in Ireland to be rated as ‘Outstanding’ for its use of an innovative care method for people with dementia.
Saint Joseph’s, Crinken Lane, Shankill, Dublin, received the plaudit for its implementation of the Butterfly Approach, which emphasises person-centred care where people are ‘free to be me’.
Siobhan Grant, fundraising manager at Saint Joseph’s, said centre staff had worked extremely hard to implement the model.
“Person-centred care is an essential component of the care we provide for people living with dementia and their families,” she said.
25th Jan 2021
Owen Gallagher was fifty-six when diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. On World Alzheimer’s Day his wife Carolann Duggan talked to Lia Hynes about his diagnosis and their lives together. This article was originally published in 2018
Until she met her husband Owen, Carolann Duggan had never thought of herself as the marrying type. “We met and married in the same year,” she recalls. “He was never due to marry, I was absolutely never due to marry. I was never going to have children; I got the snip when I was very young. I wanted to be free, single, independent.”