Search results for ‘Subject term:"older people"’ Sort:
Results 1 - 10 of 12
The assessment of frail elderly people being considered for or in receipt of continuing care: a joint policy statement by the British Geriatrics Society, the Association of Directors of Social Services and the Royal College of Nursing
- Authors:
- BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY, ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES, ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
- Publisher:
- British Geriatrics Society
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The discharge of elderly persons from hospital for community care: a joint policy statement by the British Geriatrics Society, the Association of Directors of Social Services and the Royal College of Nursing
- Authors:
- BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY, ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES, ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
- Publisher:
- British Geriatrics Society
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The transition of older people from their own residence to a care home: RCN principles
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Nursing
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- London
The transition from a person‘s own home to a care home is often emotional for both the individual as well as their family and friends. This practice guidance developed to help nurses working with people living in the community and nursing staff in care homes to support people who are moving from their own home into a care home. The guide outlines principles for both nurses and organisations and employers to support a person-centred transition. It includes links to supplementary resources to support each principle. The principles have developed by nursing experts, with contributions from representatives of resident groups, and are based on current evidence-based literature and best practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Maximising independence: the role of the nurse in supporting the rehabilitation of older people
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Nursing
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication reflects current trends and research in relation to the rehabilitation of older people. It aims to clarify the role of the nurse in rehabilitation and to offer some thoughts on issues which nurses should consider when working in practice. Promoting independence for older people is a key theme in current health and social care policy and has led to an increased focus on rehabilitation services. The aim of rehabilitation is to maximise the older person’s role fulfilment and independence in their chosen environment. The role of the nurse is to be there, offer personal support and practice expertise, but always to enable the person to follow their own path. Nurses may sometimes be viewed as the coordinator of the interdisciplinary team involved in rehabilitation. The nurse is usually the person who comes most frequently into contact with the person, and is able to offer continuity of care. Their role covers 4 different types of functions: supportive (providing psychosocial and emotional support); restorative (maximising independence and functional ability); educative (teaching self-care); and life enhancing (such as relieving pain and ensuring adequate nutrition).
Safe staffing of older people's wards: RCN summary guidance and recommendations
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Nursing
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A range of reports on NHS hospital care have highlighted concerns about older people’s human rights, dignified care and hospital experience. Evidence from the Royal College of Nursing suggests that older people, despite often having the most complex needs, regularly suffer from a severe shortage of nurses and health care assistants (HCAs), coupled with an inappropriate skill mix of HCAs to nurses. This publication considers the staff ratios and skill mix provided in older people’s wards. It argues that today’s older people’s wards need enough staff, highly skilled nursing teams and flexible staffing arrangements, and cannot weather further cuts. The publication provides guidance and recommendations for the provision of good quality compassionate and safe nursing care for older people in hospital, and identifies what is needed to meet the expectations of patients, nurses and the public, both now and in the future.
A scandal waiting to happen: elderly people and nursing care in residential and nursing homes
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Nursing
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Paper outlining concerns that the nursing needs of older people in residential and nursing homes are not being properly met, and that changes brought about by the implementation of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 in April 1993 will not rectify this situation.
Focus on restraint: guidelines in the use of restraint in the care of elderly people; prepared by a working group of the Royal College of Nursing's Forum for nurses caring for the elderly mentally ill
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Nursing
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 15p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Improving hospital care for older people: a call for action: key messages for commissioners and NHS hospital providers
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Nursing
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Improving Hospital Care for Older People summit event was held in October 2012. It brought together invited delegates from royal colleges, charities, think tanks and practitioners with an interest in the care of older people in hospital, to discuss key issues and concerns, to identify good practice and latest thinking, and to form consensus on key action areas. It identified 7 main themes as being necessary to support improvement in hospital care for older people: person-centred care; dignity and compassion, training and competence, staffing levels, safeguarding, resources, and culture and structure. This paper calls on commissioners and hospital providers to demonstrate that they are addressing the 3 priority areas selected from the main themes: training and competence of staff, culture and structure within hospitals, and person-centred care. It also invites evidence about good practice examples. It includes a list of participants attending the summit, and links to reports and resources promoting good practice in the care of older people in hospital.
Paying for nursing in nursing homes
- Authors:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND, ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
- Publishers:
- Age Concern, Royal College of Nursing
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents a proposal for paying for nursing in nursing homes based on the idea of ensuring that people in nursing homes are not means-tested for nursing care. Instead it is suggested that nursing homes are given a single payment for all the nursing care they provide.
Towards independence and choice: a review of policy guidance and standards of care for elderly people; a documentation review done by the Daphne Heald Research Unit, Royal College of Nursing, for the Clinical Standards Advisory Group, Department of Health
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Nursing
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Brief review of services for people aged 70 and over, using hip fractures as a marker condition for the identification of standards relevant to the care and rehabilitation of all older people discharged from hospital.