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Activities – Planning successful activities: the PAL instrument

Workshop – The Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument – A guide for practice

The Pool Activity Level (PAL) instrument has become the framework for care in settings across the UK for clients with cognitive impairments caused by conditions related to dementia, strokes and learning disabilities.

The instrument is now standardised and will also be of interest to strategic level providers and commissioners of health and social care services as a standardised assessment and outcome measure.

In the clinical practice guideline for dementia, The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE, 2006), the PAL Instrument is recommended for activity of daily living skill training and for activity planning.

Who should attend?

All care workers, from a range of professional backgrounds including occupational therapists, nurses, social workers, health and social care support workers and, activity providers.

What will be learned?

• The role of the Care Worker in services to people with cognitive impairments
  
• The specialist skills that Care Workers should have when working with people with cognitive impairment
  
• The theoretical framework which underpins therapeutic care practice and cognitive impairment
  
• Use of the Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument (Pool, 2007)
• Issues regarding the implementation of the PAL
• Ethical issues in the assessment of people with cognitive impairment

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