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Intermediate care
- Authors:
- ROSE Steve, JOHNSON Kathy, (comps.)
- Publisher:
- National Health Service. Health Management Specialist Library
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Intermediate care is a core element of the Government’s programme for improving services for older people. A King’s Fund report 1 has defined intermediate care as: “Those services which will help to divert admission to an acute care setting through timely therapeutic interventions which aim to divert a physiological crisis or offer recuperative services at or near a person’s own home.” Ideally lasting no longer than a period of 6 weeks, an intermediate care episode can encompass a range of services including: rapid response, hospital at home, residential rehabilitation, supported discharge and day rehabilitation. Delivery of intermediate care has evolved and changed since its inception, for example, there is now more focus on: people with dementia and mental health problems; people who are homeless; and extra care housing - this model has an important part to play as a setting for intermediate care particularly for people with dementia. Such broadening of the intermediate care model is necessary since evidence suggests that the six week model outlined in the original guidance is insufficient in many instances, for example frail older people.
Flexible care can be just a jive
- Author:
- TAYLOR Carolyn
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 8(1), September 2001, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Reports on one of the winners of the health and social care awards. Looks at the use of "flexible carers" in Oxfordshire, who provided regular home based support to older people suffering from functional mental illness or dementia.
Behavioural and social rehabilitation and training
- Authors:
- BROWN Roy I., HUGHSON E. Anne
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 192p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
Needs assessment and community care: clinical practice and policy making
- Editor:
- BALDWIN Steve
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 236p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Reviews approaches to needs assessment and shows how they allow more precise focusing on requirements for individuals. Includes papers on: where theory of need meets practice in mental health services; the conceptual foundation of assessing health care needs; assessment of need and case management; needs assessment in a rehabilitation service; assessing the needs of people with severe mental health problems; needs assessment in older people suffering from communication difficulties and or cognitive impairment; choice in community care; feminist perspectives on community care in Australia; aspects of informal care in Northern Ireland; psychosocial intervention in nursing; Slovene mental health services; care of people with chronic mental disorders - a European/American perspective; the process of transforming an old fashioned hospital into a modern treatment centre; survivor led research in human services; and assessing learning outcomes in post-qualifying community care training.