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Joint inspection of older people's services in Dorset: October 2005
- Authors:
- COMMISSION FOR HEALTHCARE AUDIT AND INSPECTIONl, AUDIT COMMISSION, COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Leaving hospital revisited: a follow-up study of a group of older people who were discharged from hospital in March 2004
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 54p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This new report on the experiences of older people after leaving hospital reveals that decisions that are made at the time of discharge from hospital can have long-term consequences. The report finds that very few people who go into residential care at this time return to their own homes, and that older people are less likely to need residential care if the right support and rehabilitation is offered to them on leaving hospital. The report from CSCI calls for a 'genuinely comprehensive preventative approach' to give more practical support and care to all older people, in order to maintain and enhance their quality of life and independence. The study on which the report is based stresses the importance to older people of being cared for by one carer they know really well, rather than a succession of strangers; of better contingency planning to avoid repeated yet avoidable hospital readmissions; of having a focus on rehabilitation rather than just administering care; and of supporting people to live their lives independently in their own homes, rather than always opting for residential care.
Joint inspection of services for older people in Leicester: June 2005
- Authors:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION, AUDIT COMMISSION, HEALTHCARE COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Joint inspection of older people's services in Redcar and Cleveland: August 2005
- Authors:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION, AUDIT COMMISSION, HEALTHCARE COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
See me, not just the dementia: understanding people's experiences of living in a care home: summary and electronic version of full report
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 16p., CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- London
A new way of inspecting, used by CSCI inspectors for the first time, focuses on the needs of people who cannot easily communicate and gets under the skin of the real relationship between staff and the people they care for. Using the new technique, inspectors observed the interactions between staff and people with dementia in 100 care homes across England. People with dementia are often unable to communicate easily. This new way of inspecting, developed in partnership with the University of Bradford, is unique, and looks beyond the surface of routine care practice to understand people’s emotional well-being, and how staff relate to them.
See me, not just the dementia: understanding people's experiences of living in a care home
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 68p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A new way of inspecting, used by CSCI inspectors for the first time, focuses on the needs of people who cannot easily communicate and gets under the skin of the real relationship between staff and the people they care for. Using the new technique, inspectors observed the interactions between staff and people with dementia in 100 care homes across England. People with dementia are often unable to communicate easily. This new way of inspecting, developed in partnership with the University of Bradford, is unique, and looks beyond the surface of routine care practice to understand people’s emotional well-being, and how staff relate to them.
Handled with care?: managing medication for residents of care homes and children's homes: a follow up study
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The evidence from this report is that homes are still not placing enough importance on this critical area of care. In March 2004, the National Care Standards Commission (NCSC), a predecessor organisation to CSCI, reported on homes’ performance on managing medication. The report identified significant deficiencies in homes’ performance and practice and was instrumental in focusing attention on the need for homes to take urgent remedial action. The key areas of poor performance identified in the NCSC report were; wrong medication being given to residents; poor recording of medicines received and administered; medicines being inappropriately handled by unqualified staff; medicines being stored inappropriately. The report shows that there has been some slight improvement in performance overall, with the exception of nursing homes for older people. But the rate of improvement in such a crucial area of care has been disappointingly slow, with nearly half the care homes for older people and younger adults, providing 210,000 places for residents, still not meeting the minimum standard relating to medication. The primary responsibility for this failure rests with the homes themselves.
When I get older: executive summary; what people want from social care services as they get older
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 3p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report shows that people today looking ahead to older age have high expectations of the social care services they might receive. They strongly value independence and choice. They would choose to receive care intheir own homes rather than move into a care environment. And they want services that suit their needs and respect their rights. People clearly want rigorous inspection of social care services, too. They want frequent inspections, with little or no notice given to those responsible for the service. However, they also want inspections to be carried out differently, they want the balance to shift more towards talking to the people using the service and their families, and spending time simply observing what goes on, and away from checking paperwork. Britain’s population is ageing and people are living longer than ever before. The largest group of adult users of social care is people aged 65 or over, an age group that is predicted to increase by 43 per cent by 2026. Demographic trends and people’s expectations pose an urgent challenge to everyone involved in developing social care policy, in planning and delivering services, and in inspecting and regulating those services
When I get older: what people want from social care services as they get older
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report shows that people today looking ahead to older age have high expectations of the social care services they might receive. They strongly value independence and choice. They would choose to receive care intheir own homes rather than move into a care environment. And they want services that suit their needs and respect their rights. People clearly want rigorous inspection of social care services, too. They want frequent inspections, with little or no notice given to those responsible for the service. However, they also want inspections to be carried out differently, they want the balance to shift more towards talking to the people using the service and their families, and spending time simply observing what goes on, and away from checking paperwork. Britain’s population is ageing and people are living longer than ever before. The largest group of adult users of social care is people aged 65 or over, an age group that is predicted to increase by 43 per cent by 2026. Demographic trends and people’s expectations pose an urgent challenge to everyone involved in developing social care policy, in planning and delivering services, and in inspecting and regulating those services
Professional advice: training care workers to safely administer medicines in care homes
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance gives inspectors a guide to good practice in how care providers should train care workers to safely administer medicines in care homes.