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Human rights of residents in care homes: conference held on Tuesday 18 October 2005, The Britannia Centre, Kings Cross, London
- Authors:
- HANSON Michele, et al
- Publisher:
- Relatives and Residents Association
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
This pack includes speeches by Michele Hanson of The Guardian; Paul Burstow, MP; Gillian Dalley, Chief Executive, Relatives & Residents Association; Carolina Gottardo, British Institute of Human Rights; and Rose Jenks, campaigner to stop the closure of Cooperscroft, a home in Potters Bar.
Caring for people with MS in the community: a DVD resource for health and social care staff
- Authors:
- MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY, (Producer)
- Publisher:
- Multiple Sclerosis Society
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- (68 mins), DVD, booklet
- Place of publication:
- London
Produced by the MS Society, this DVD is a comprehensive and practical resource for staff who provide care for people with MS in care homes, in domiciliary care and in primary care. The DVD provides an overview of the condition and covers the medical and associated topics.
The resident profile is it sufficient for establishing level of care needs?
- Authors:
- RESNICK Barbara, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Long-Term Care, 3(3/4), 2005, pp.87-102.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This American study considers the use of the Resident Profile as an evaluation tool for older adults considering a move to a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) setting. Unlike Assisted Living Facilities, the CCRC contract represents a lifetime commitment from the CCRC to care for them, regardless of future needs. A total of 7,635 Resident Profiles were completed at 10 facilities. There was a statistically significant difference in scores for each domain (function, physical parameters, cognition, social support, and mental health) of the Resident Profile, as well as the total score, between those who were recommended for independent living, assisted living or a skilled level of care. All domains of the Resident Profile together explained 15.5% of the level of care recommended. This tool can be used to help clinicians determine the level of care that is likely to be appropriate for the individual being evaluated. Future research should consider the relationship between the individual's score on the Resident Profile and successful living in the facility over time. In addition, future consideration of other factors that may help to better explain the level of care recommended for older adults moving into continuing care retirement communities will be helpful to comprehensively explain these recommendations. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
The changing face of residential care in South Africa: a practitioner's perspective
- Author:
- van ZYL Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Global Ageing, 3(3), December 2005, pp.54-60.
The author reports on the current state of residential care for older people in South Africa.
Care homes: provision of information about prices/fees
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document sets out the Government’s proposed changes to the regulations to address the concerns relating to price transparency raised by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in their market study of care homes for older people. Views are sought on these proposals, which also address a point raised by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) about changes made to the Care Homes Regulations in 2003 in relation to nursing fees.
Care homes in the heart of the community: final report of the NAPA Growing with Age project
- Authors:
- KNOCKER Sally, AVILA Barbara
- Publisher:
- National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- London
All older people, care homes, sheltered schemes, care agencies and those in domiciliary care should have access to a local directory of activities. Care homes should encourage older people to maintain contact with the local community by facilitating residents to attend outside activities and inviting outsiders to participate in scheme/home activities.
Improving palliative care provision for older people in care homes
- Authors:
- YOUNG Erica, FROGGATT Katherine
- Publisher:
- National Council for Palliative Care
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication provides care homes, hospices and the health service with the guidelines and necessary actions to ensure that the half a million people living in care homes across the UK receive the essential palliative care services they require. It identifies present and potential challenges for the provision of palliative care in care homes and suggests actions to address these challenges.
Transitional care facility for elderly people in hospital awaiting a long term care bed: randomised controlled trial
- Authors:
- CROTTY Maria, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 12.11.05, 2005, pp.1110-1113.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
This Australian study aimed to assess the effectiveness of moving patients who are waiting in hospital for a long term care bed to an off-site transitional care facility. The participants were 320 elderly patients in acute hospital beds (212 randomised to intervention, 108 to control). The intervention used was a transitional care facility where all patients received a single assessment from a specialist elder care team and appropriate ongoing therapy. The main outcome measures used included the length of stay in hospital, rates of readmission, deaths, and patient's functional level (modified Barthel index), quality of life (assessment of quality of life), and care needs (residential care scale) at four months. From admission, those in the intervention group stayed a median of 32.5 days in hospital. In the control group the median length of stay was 43.5 days. Patients in the intervention group took a median of 21 days longer to be admitted to permanent care than those in the control group. In both groups few patients went home (14 (7%) in the intervention group v 9 (9%) in the control group). There were no significant differences in death rates (28% v 27%) or rates of transfer back to hospital (28% v 25%). The authors conclude that for frail elderly patients who are awaiting a residential care bed transfer out of hospital to an off-site transitional care unit with focus on aged care "unblocks beds" without adverse effects.
Lay assessors and care home inspections: is there a future?
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 35(7), October 2005, pp.1093-1106.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This paper reports on research funded by the Nuffield Foundation exploring the role of lay assessors in the care home inspection process in England and Wales. Lay people have been included in many care home inspections for the past decade. Similar lay involvement is included in other public service inspections such as the Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) inspections of schools. The Board of the short-lived National Care Standards Commission (NCSC) controversially decided to dispense with such lay involvement in the inspection process. The replacement body, the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), intends to include lay people in the inspections of support services in the community but is hesitating about reintroducing them into care home inspections. This research project was able to explore the role taken by lay assessors in thirteen inspections of care homes for older people and for adults with learning disabilities. The research concluded that lay assessors had a significant role in communicating with residents and staff and observing care home life. Their role was particularly important, as inspectors were often so involved in paperwork and checking policy compliance with the national minimum standards that they were often able to spend little, if any, time talking to residents or staff. It is argued that there is considerable potential for a strengthened role of lay people in the care home inspection process.
National Care Homes Research and Development Forum
- Author:
- COOK Glenda
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 15(4), October 2005, pp.48-49.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
The National Care Homes Research and Development forum was established on 19th November 2003 to provide a platform for practitioners and researchers to network, share information and ideas arising from their work. This article gives a rationale for the development of the forum and highlights its current work.