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Physical environments for long-term care: ideas worth sharing
- Editors:
- ARMSTRONG Pat, BRAEDLEY Susan
- Publisher:
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 114
- Place of publication:
- Montreal
This report provides examples of promising practice which show how planning physical environments in long term care homes can contribute to quality of life and care of residents. The examples demonstrate how environments can shape how care and life in nursing homes are understood, and how they can have a positive impact on residents. It draws on evidence gathered from international ethnographic research carried out in 27 different sites in the six countries of Norway, Germany, the UK, the US, and Canada. Chapters cover a range of issues, including: location of a care home; space; staff - environments for staff to carry out their work and interact with residents; food and residents connections with where food is prepared; locks and doors; clothing and laundry - its role in dignity and identity; and cleaning - the need for both a clean and attractive environment; and environments that meet the needs of those at the end of life. Each chapter includes key questions for consideration to help care homes to improve their practice. The final chapter identifies key lessons from the examples and reflects some of the tensions identified when designing physical environments for long-term residential care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Promising practices in long term care: ideas worth sharing
- Editors:
- BAINES Donna, ARMSTRONG Pat
- Publisher:
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 86
- Place of publication:
- Montreal
Reports on examples of promising practice in long term residential care for the older people from six countries: Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States. The examples show of how long term care might be organised and undertaken in more promising ways that respect the needs of residents, families, workers and managers. The examples were collected by an international team of 26 researchers and more than 50 graduate students and aimed to build a vision of what high quality care would look like. The examples collected all met the following principles: treat residents and providers with dignity and respect; understand care as a relationship; and take differences and equity into account. The short vignettes draw on the data to show how real people interacted in ways that were caring, respectful and supportive, and met the four principles of promising practices. Each vignette includes a bulleted list which identifies why each of the practices worked well. To put the examples in context, the publication also provides basic statistical data each of the countries studied. The concluding section outlines some principles for building a strong, supportive, integrated system of long term care. (Edited publisher abstract)