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A positive environment: physical and social influences on people with senile dementia in residential care
- Author:
- NETTEN Ann
- Publisher:
- Ashgate/University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 134p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Describes an investigation into the relationship between the residential care environment and the welfare of residents with senile dementia. Includes aspects of both the physical and social environment. Sets the results in the context of current policy issues and provides pointers for specifying standards for the care of residents with senile dementia.
Using survey data to measure changes in the quality of home care: analysis of the older people's user experience survey 2006
- Authors:
- MALLEY Juliette, NETTEN Ann, JONES Karen
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 110p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
The development of the User experience Survey (UES) and the inclusion of the user’s perspective in the Performance Assessment Framework (PAF) were novel and important steps forward in the world of performance assessment and monitoring of social services. Commentators had previously criticised the lack of connectedness between the performance/quality and user involvement agendas and these developments represented real steps forward in meeting this goal. Analysis from the 2003 extension to the UES for older people has demonstrated that user experience measures can usefully discriminate between Local Authorities (LAs). While his new research raises some important questions, this type of approach is clearly an improvement on performance measurement based on processes and inputs. Fifty authorities took part with representation from all Government Office Regions and LA types. Analysis of responses to the compulsory questions and comparison with responses to these questions nationally revealed very similar proportions responding to each category. We can assume from these findings that the sample of authorities is broadly representative of the views of service users across England.
The development of social well-being in new extra care housing schemes
- Authors:
- CALLAGHAN Lisa, NETTEN Ann, DARTON Robin
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 60p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
The findings of a study conducted between to investigate the development of social well-being for older people moving into 15 new-build extra care housing schemes are reported. The report describes how schemes had begun to develop social activities and community during their first six months, identifying facilitators and barriers to social participation; considers the social climate or ‘atmosphere’ of the schemes one year after opening; discusses differences in individual social well-being one year after opening. Whilst there are some limitations to the study, the findings suggest that extra care housing an provide and environment supportive of social well-being. Key messages are summarised.
Measuring personal social services outputs for national accounts: services for older people
- Authors:
- NETTEN Ann, FORDER Julien, SHAPIRO Judith
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 55p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
There is increasing pressure to devise a means of reflecting the outputs of social care in ways that can be used to reflect changes in productivity and efficiency. Professor Sir Tony Atkinson led a review for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on the future development of government output, productivity and associated price indices (Atkinson, 2005). The review followed Eurostat guidance that countries should be developing direct measures of government services that are individually consumed. As part of this review and with the longer-term objective of improving measurement and understanding of PSS output and productivity in social care, the Department of Health funded work to develop new measures of personal social services (PSS) output and productivity, reflecting best available practice. This paper reports on the results of this work. An extensive search of the literature identified little theoretical discussion or empirical evidence in the field of measuring productivity and outputs of social care services. Most of the evidence was limited to evaluations of cost effectiveness of specific interventions or services for particular client groups. While valuable in their own right such studies do not address the central question of how to measure government output in social care services across client groups in a way that could be used to monitor changes in productivity over time. The first stage of the work was to develop a theoretically based approach and to identify how it might be applied (at least to some extent) using existing sources of data. The second stage (which we report on here) is to illustrate the application of the approach for measuring for National Accounts purposes outputs and services for older people using routine statistical sources and drawing on data collected as part of a study conducted to inform the Formula Spending Share The authors start by describing the overall approach to the welfare index and then in turn discuss the methodology and basis for estimating core components of this index: Capacity for Benefit and quality. In section 5 they illustrate the application of the approach to activity data in estimating outputs and changes in levels of output over time. Finally they discuss some of the issues raised by the application including the wider potential of the approach and data requirements if such an approach were to be used in the future for National Accounts.
Unit costs of community care 1992/93
- Authors:
- NETTEN Ann, SMART Steve, comps
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 62p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
First in a planned series of reports bringing together the most up-to-date information on the unit costs of community care. Uses the economic concept of opportunity cost to define what should be measured and how. In 4 sections: services for older people; services for people with mental health problems; services for people with learning difficulties; and generic services.
Guidelines for the closure of care homes for older people: prevalence and content of local government protocols
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS Jaquetta, NETTEN Ann
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
The rise in the number of care home closures in recent years has raised concerns about the way in which residents and their relatives and carers are being affected by such relocation and the way in which it is managed. Currently there is no statutory guidance in England aimed specifically at the way in which care homes close.. This paper presents a review of local government guidelines and protocols for the closure of care homes for older people. The objectives of the study were to identify the prevalence of written guidelines and the nature of existing principles and recommendations for good practice. Thirty-three documents were analysed to identify their purpose and scope, the ways in which roles and responsibilities were defined and allocated, and suggestions and recommendations for good practice.
Closures of care homes for older people; February 2002
- Authors:
- NETTEN Ann, DARTON Robin, WILLIAMS Jaquetta
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Summarises research commissioned from the Department of Health investigating the causes processes and consequences of the increased number of closures of care homes for older people. The research aims to identify the rates of closures, the types of homes that are closing, and the circumstances that lead up to closure.
Unit costs of health and social care 1996
- Authors:
- NETTEN Ann, DENNETT Jane, comps
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 147p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
The fourth volume in a series of reports which aim to improve unit cost estimates over a period of time. Includes sections on services for: elderly people; people with mental health problems; people with learning difficulties; services for children and families; and people with AIDS/HIV.
Unit costs of community care 1994
- Authors:
- NETTEN Ann, comp
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 104p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Contains sections on services for: older people; people with mental health problems; people with learning difficulties; children and families; and generic services.
The effect of design of residential homes in creating dependency among confused elderly residents: a study of elderly demented residents and their ability to find their way around homes for the elderly
- Author:
- NETTEN Ann
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 12p., tables, diags., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Reports on a study of 13 homes for the elderly which examined the effect of the environment on residents. It was noted that group homes provided a more favourable design, and 'meaningful points' could be seen as an aid to residents.