Practice guidance covering oral health, including dental health and daily mouth care, for adults in care homes. The guideline includes recommendations on improving and maintaining residents’ day-to-day oral healthcare, ensuring staff are properly trained to confidently look after the oral health needs of residents, and ensuring there is adequate access to dental services when needed. It also recommends all residents have an oral health assessment when they enter a care home with the results being entered into their personal care plan. Recommendations are provided for care home managers, care staff, health and wellbeing boards, dental practitioners and oral health promotion teams.
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Practice guidance covering oral health, including dental health and daily mouth care, for adults in care homes. The guideline includes recommendations on improving and maintaining residents’ day-to-day oral healthcare, ensuring staff are properly trained to confidently look after the oral health needs of residents, and ensuring there is adequate access to dental services when needed. It also recommends all residents have an oral health assessment when they enter a care home with the results being entered into their personal care plan. Recommendations are provided for care home managers, care staff, health and wellbeing boards, dental practitioners and oral health promotion teams.
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Subject terms:
oral health, health care, older people, care homes, adults, residents, primary care, access to services;
Developed to support National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline 22 for older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions, this tailored resource presents three good examples of named care coordinators working with older people. The practice examples come from: Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service, Sutton Vanguard programme Nursing Home Pilot Scheme, and Midhurst Macmillan Palliative Care Service. The examples include information on the responsibilities and requirements of the role, allocating a care coordinator, improved outcomes, financial benefits and learning points. The models were identified by three focus groups and the examples gathered using information from the Kings Fund research on coordinated care, telephone interview data and supporting documents from the Programme Leads
(Edited publisher abstract)
Developed to support National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline 22 for older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions, this tailored resource presents three good examples of named care coordinators working with older people. The practice examples come from: Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service, Sutton Vanguard programme Nursing Home Pilot Scheme, and Midhurst Macmillan Palliative Care Service. The examples include information on the responsibilities and requirements of the role, allocating a care coordinator, improved outcomes, financial benefits and learning points. The models were identified by three focus groups and the examples gathered using information from the Kings Fund research on coordinated care, telephone interview data and supporting documents from the Programme Leads
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
case studies, older people, palliative care, care homes, dementia, home care, care planning, models, cost effectiveness, integrated care, professional role;