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SCIE research briefing 3: aiding communication with people with dementia
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
A web-based briefing providing a concise summary of the current knowledge base on aiding communication with people with dementia. Coverage includes ethical considerations, views of service users and carers, innovative practice examples and implications for practice. Also highlights additional contacts and resources. The briefing was commissioned by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). The latest edition of this Briefing was produced in April 2005 and the next updated is due in April 2006.
SCIE research briefing 10: terminal care in care homes
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
A web-based briefing providing a concise summary of the current knowledge base on the provision of care to terminally ill older people aged 65 and over within care homes settings. The briefing divides the knowledge available into organisational knowledge, policy community knowledge, practitioner knowledge, research knowledge, and user and carer knowledge. Highlights additional contacts and resources and includes links to the full text of documents. The document was commissioned by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).
SCIE research briefing 15: helping older people to take prescribed medication in their own homes
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing summarises recent evidence on the taking of prescribed medication by older people aged 65 or over who live at home. It covers all older people, including those who suffer from cognitive or other impairments. The briefing examines the policy literature and the findings of the research into why older people living at home may intentionally or unintentionally fail to take all of their prescribed medication when they need to, and what measures may be effective in helping them to achieve compliance with the prescribed doses. It also summarises the key messages arising from the literature, including reasons for non-compliance and effective ways of improving compliance. It will be of interest to both the prescribers of medication and health and social care professionals who work with older people in their own homes.
Independence, well-being and choice: our vision for the future of social care for adults in England: consultation response
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) welcomes the green paper’s emphasis on independence and choice, and also wishes to encourage careful thinking about the issues of interdependence and control. SCIE supports the proposal to have an inclusive debate about risk. Structural change may be necessary, but is certainly not sufficient. The green paper recognises this, particularly through the emphasis on cultural change. Drawing on what is known about the implementation of changes designed to promote user- and carer-centred working, SCIE argues for an incremental approach and for forthcoming legislation to be framed in a way that allows for learning and experimentation by all concerned, including the users of services and their carers and supporters. The green paper’s seven outcomes for social care cannot be delivered by social care alone. Effective, outcome-focused partnership working across the human services and spanning from central government to the frontline must therefore be resourced and developed.
SCIE research briefing 12: involving individual older patients and their carers in the discharge process from acute to community care: implications for intermediate care
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
This web-based briefing provides a concise summary of the research and policy literature into the means, benefits and difficulties of involving patients in the planning of discharge to community or intermediate care. It also considers the role of carers in this process, as well as what happens when an older person’s ability to communicate their preferences in these matters is affected by dementia, language difficulties, or an unwillingness or reluctance to express preferences about the provision of care. The briefing also examines policy and research findings on older people’s involvement in discharge planning more generally. The briefing was commissioned by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).
SCIE research briefing 1: preventing falls in care homes
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
A web-based briefing providing a concise summary of the current knowledge base on preventing falls of older people in residential homes. Coverage includes ethical considerations, views of service users and carers, implications for practice and innovative practice examples. Also highlights additional contacts and resources. The briefing was commissioned by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).
Adult placements and person-centred approaches
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
This web-based practice guide is aimed at local authority and health commissioners, practitioners, service users, adult placement scheme staff and carers in England. The guide is based on information from a practice survey that identified emerging and developing practice; a literature review that pulled together the key literature on adult placements; and an analytical report that identified the key messages from these two surveys. It identifies relevant national minimum standards, and highlights findings and case examples from the practice survey, as well as from the literature where available. The Guide contains practice points, including areas of conflict, on-going debate about roles and responsibilities, and the application of person-centred approaches to adult placements. It contains sections on: being person-centred, assessment and referral, matching and introductions, monitoring and review, moving on, adult placement carers, advocacy; and person-centred planning. (Previously published as SCIE Practice Guide no. 4).