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Home truths
- Author:
- BELL Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 28.09.04, 2004, p.37.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Explores what needs to be done to improve the status of the home care service and the importance of providing better access to training.
Home alone
- Author:
- BELL Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.2.93, 1993, pp.iv-v.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Focuses on domiciliary and day care providers and looks at their training needs; which the author believes have been overlooked.
Developing national standards for regulating domiciliary care
- Author:
- BELL Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- ADSS Inform, 8(2), April 1999, p.13.
Looks at the initiatives in progress in developing standards for regulating domiciliary care.
Towards 'holistic' home care
- Author:
- BELL Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(2), December 1999, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Despite its importance, home care has largely been outside the field of regulation. The Joint Initiative for Community Care (JICC) was asked by the Government to develop national standards for regulating providers of domiciliary care. The author, and director of JICC, describes how the standards will operate and the importance of staff development and training.
Home care: the business of caring
- Authors:
- BELL Lesley, HOW Linda
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 104p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Practical book looking at the problems faced by anyone wishing to set up a new home care business or already running one. Based on the experiences of purchasers and providers of home care. Covers issues such as: the key aspects of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990; researching the home care market; the practicalities of setting up a home care business; business planning and cash flow; managing the business; quality assurance and monitoring; and contracting.
Managing CareFully: a guide for care home managers
- Author:
- BELL Lesley
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 168p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides advice and guidance for managers of home care services in the private, voluntary and local authority sectors. Supplies detailed background information on the community care reforms and links these to service provision. Also explores practical issues such as: complaints; assessing local needs; managing standards; legal requirements; responding to clients' changing needs; selecting staff; handling clients' money; and business planning.
CareFully: a handbook for home care assistants
- Author:
- BELL Lesley
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 270p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides key advice for home care workers in promoting independence. Topics covered include: the importance of core values; the health of older people; taking care of yourself; basic skills of home care assistants; receiving home care - the user's perspective; and providing a service for the new
CareFully: a guide for home care assistants
- Author:
- BELL Lesley
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 160p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Practical guide to the responsibilities of home care assistants in promoting independence and thus enabling people to live in their own homes. Includes chapters on: basic skills of home care assistants; health of older people; eating and nutrition; health and safety; mobility and disability; incontinence; sexuality and older people; financial matters; and terminal illness and death.