4-Day Humanitude™ Care Action-Training

Enable positive relationships and outcomes in professional caregiving

Empower your team with practical and evidence-based techniques to elevate the quality of care with Humanitude™.

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Adopted by Leading Healthcare Organisations in singapore

Refusal of care and challenging behaviours

Caring for persons who resist assistance, become combative or agitated is stressful for caregivers and impacts efficiency.

Communication difficulties with older, vulnerable adults

Lack of ability to connect with persons living with frailty such as those with dementia or other cognitive impairments lead to inconsistent quality of care.

Mismatch of day-to-day care routines with personal values

Lack of ability to implement care that focuses on individual needs and preferences of vulnerable persons result in feelings of helplessness and burnout among caregivers.

Caregiver applying Humanitude care methodology in a professional care setting.

Care quality

Enables care compliance through Humanitude™ relational techniques, resulting in enhanced care quality.

Quality of life

Positive relationships and outcomes reinforce a sense of purpose, competency and job satisfaction.

Overall well-being

Relationship-centred care enables a safe and comfortable work environment.

Care quality

Positive emotional connections lead to trust, care consent and participation during care.

Quality of life

Respectful and meaningful connections instead of feeling subjected to forced care.

Overall well-being

Improvements in mobility, Activities of Daily Living (ADL) function and overall well-being.

Professionalise care relationships

Prescribe care under the well-being scope

Foster well-being of caregivers and care recipients

Prevent and reduce neuropsychiatric symptoms

Establish daily verticality plans to reduce bedridden and injury risk

Align existing care interventions with Humanitude™

Deliver techniques for BPSD (Behavioural & Psychological Symptoms of Dementia)

Relationship-centred and Evidence-based Care Methodology

Gain trust and care consent by fostering positive relationships and meaningful connections between caregivers and care recipients.

Photo credit by St Luke’s Hospital

Relationship-centred and Evidence-based Care Methodology

Gaze, Speech, Touch and Verticality

Known as the 4 pillars of Humanitude™, caregivers learn how to positively communicate with care recipients through these relational and identity fundamentals in Humanitude™ ways.

Sensory Capture™

Master the hands-on and systematic process of building a positive emotional connection, which results in care consent, care compliance and professionalised care relationships.

Relational Handling™

Deliver good ergonomic and interpersonal handling techniques suited for different levels of mobility, while ensuring safety and comfort for both caregivers and care recipients.

Humanitude™ training at Apex Harmony Lodge

Evaluative Care and Care Prescription

Enhance interdisciplinary teamwork, continuity of care and well-being by conducting evaluations of the person’s abilities and desires and prescribing care with aligned care goals and strategies.

For Caregivers

Reduced burnout

Enhanced empathy

Improved attitudes towards dementia

For Care recipients

Improved ADL function

Improved mobility function

Improved well-being

“One example is Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, which uses a care technique called Humanitude, where healthcare workers are trained to focus on aspects like gaze, speech and touch. They sit the patients upright when addressing them, and when escorting patients, they guide gently by placing a hand on the back instead of reaching for the patients’ arms. This can help patients with dementia to remain calm and co-operative, while maintaining their dignity.”

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Ministry of Health Singapore

Speech by Mr Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Health, at the MOH-NHG Staff Engagement Session on Supporting Healthcare Workers, on 17 March 2023, at Ng Teng Fong Centre for Health Innovation.

“Singapore can draw inspiration from alternative approaches to dementia care, such as the Humanitude™ approach. Alternative care models can allow for more client-centric and effective care. Organisations around the world which have adopted the Humanitude approach, an alternative care model, have observed measurable improvements in client scores on the Behavioral Pathology in Alzheimer’s Rating Scale (BEHAVE-AD).”

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National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre

(NVPC Dementia Colabs Report - OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2021)

“I learnt how to establish relationship with the residents through Gaze, Speech, Touch and Verticality. All that we learnt in Humanitude™ training must be applied in the wards, to have the real impact. I will encourage my colleagues to go for this training.”

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Caregiver from NTUC Health Nursing Homes