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Improving care for older people: good practice examples
- Author:
- SOCIAL WORK INSPECTION AGENCY
- Publisher:
- Social Work Inspection Agency
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This paper sets out a range of good practice examples of services for older people, including people with dementia, which were seen during performance inspections of 18 local authority social work services in Scotland to end of December 2007.
Multi-agency inspection: collaborative working across services for older people in Forth Valley
- Author:
- SOCIAL WORK INSPECTION AGENCY
- Publisher:
- Social Work Inspection Agency
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 156p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report gives an overview of collaborative working between health and social work services for older people in Forth Valley. It sets out the strengths and areas of good practice as well as identifying areas where improvements are needed. Older people in Forth Valley generally were pleased with the health and social work services they received and the way these services worked together. Carers were less satisfied with the support they received, although this is consistent with the way carers across Scotland feel.
Multi-agency inspection summary: collaborative working across services for older people in Forth Valley
- Author:
- SOCIAL WORK INSPECTION AGENCY
- Publisher:
- Social Work Inspection Agency
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Forth Valley inspection covered a wide range of services for older people - mainly health and social work. It focused on NHS Forth Valley, Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling Councils. It looked at the way that these services worked together to assist older people live as independently as possible. This leaflet summarises the key findings of the inspection. Examples of good services and positive collaborative working are presented.
Multi-agency inspection: collaborative working across services for older people in Tayside
- Author:
- SOCIAL WORK INSPECTION AGENCY
- Publisher:
- Social Work Inspection Agency
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Main findings of a multi-agency inspection of services for older people in Tayside are presented. Older people in Tayside were generally pleased with the services they received and the way these services worked together. Carers were less satisfied with the support they received, although this is consistent with the way carers across Scotland feel. There is one health board, NHS Tayside, and three councils, Angus, Dundee and Perth and Kinross. There were distinctive differences in the way that the three health and social work partnerships in Tayside provided services. There was no over-arching strategy for health services for older people.
Multi-agency inspection: collaborative working across services for older people in Tayside
- Author:
- SOCIAL WORK INSPECTION AGENCY
- Publisher:
- Social Work Inspection Agency
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 116p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report gives an overview of collaborative working between health and social work services provided in Tayside (covering NHS Tayside, and Angus, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross Councils). It also sets out the strengths and areas of good practice as well as identifying areas where improvements are needed. There were distinctive differences in the way in which the three Tayside health and social work partnerships approached their strategic and operational responsibilities for services for older people, despite there being one health board, NHS Tayside.