Promoting Dignity & Compassion

Dignity and compassion should form the basic foundations of care, but they are difficult to define and hard to teach. It is easier to identify a lack of dignity or compassion in the treatment of an individual than it is to put your finger on what it is that makes someone’s care dignified and compassionate.

This manual aims to raise your awareness of the ways in which the actions and attitudes of yourself, your employers and society as a whole affect the quality of life and the physical and mental well-being of the people you care for.