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Preparing older people's strategies: linking housing to health, social care and other local strategies
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, HOUSING CORPORATION
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 88p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document provides guidance on the preparation of housing strategies that link housing to health, social care, and other local strategies. The guidance follows a whole systems approach which acknowledges that housing services are one of a number of other services that together make up the whole system that affects older citizens. All local authorities are required to have an older people’s housing strategy. This document provides a framework for producing a strategy using a sample template comprising the following sections: an executive summary; an introduction to the strategy, setting the local context; identifying the housing ingredients, needs and demand; how the current housing and service systems work; planning for the future; proposals and recommendations; and taking the strategy forward. This document is aimed at those responsible for planning and delivering the housing function, but may also have a wider audience in health, social care, regeneration and planning.
How can we help older people not fall again?: implementing the Older People's NSF Falls Standard; support for commissioning good services
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The negative impact of falls and related injuries on older people and health and social care systems is clear. The NSF for Older People Standard 6 aims to prevent falls and reduce their impacts. This document provides guidance, primarily for commissioners, on how to implement that standard and achieve benefits for older people and health and social care systems. ree key elements of good practice in commissioning services to address falls and their impacts were identified: cost benefit analyses that make the case for investment; strategic commissioning is in itself a valuable tool in developing and sustaining effective services; interventions are most beneficial when targeted on those at risk, based on agreed assessment processes, and integrated in a falls strategy developed with the full range of local services.
Changing places: report on the work of the Health and Social Care Change Agent Team 2002/03
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is the first annual report on the work of the Health and Social Care Change Agent Team (CAT). ‘Delayed discharges’ are people, quite often frail and vulnerable older people whose future care is uncertain. An acute hospital is not a good place to be whilst waiting for care arrangements to be made. Hospitals make people more dependent and there is an increased risk of acquiring an infection. While older, vulnerable people are away from home, their care networks may break down and the longer the time spent away from home, the more difficult it is to set these up again. Sometimes, had the right services been in place in the community, the person need not have gone into hospital in the first place. If people are waiting in hospital beds, other people’s admissions for planned surgery such as a hip replacement may be delayed. About 60% of all people in acute hospitals are over 65 years, so many of the people waiting to come into hospital are likely to be older people. The more medically fit people waiting in hospital beds, the fewer beds are available for emergency admissions, leading to longer waits on trolleys in the Accident & Emergency department (A&E) or the Medical Assessment Unit (MAU).
Adult immunisation update: introduction of a pneumococcal immunisation programme for those aged 80 years and over; influenza immunisation programme 2003/2004
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This letter is to inform the introduction of a new pneumococcal immunisation programme for older people and to provide the details of this year's influenza immunisation campaign.
Domiciliary care: national minimum standards; regulations
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 70p.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
While broad in scope, these standards acknowledge the unique and complex needs of individuals, and the additional specific knowledge, and skills required in order to deliver a service that is tailored to the needs of each person. With the emphasis on caring for people with complex health and personal care needs living in their own home instead of in residential or nursing homes or long stay hospitals, the provision of personal domiciliary care services is evolving rapidly and reflects changes at the interface between health and social care. These standards will be applied to agencies providing personal care to the wide range of people who need care and support whilst living in their own home, including: older people, people with physical disabilities, people with sensory loss including dual sensory impairment, people with mental health problems, people with learning disabilities, children and their families, and personal or family carers.
Charges for residential accommodation: CRAG amendment no. 19: National Assistance (Sums For Personal Requirements) (England) Regulations 2003; Deferred Payments Grant For 2003/2004
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the charging regulations and rules for adults who enter residential accommodation under Section 21(1) of the 1948 National Assistance Act. Announces revised Personal Expenses Allowance for people in nursing homes; raises capital allowances to councils; and advises councils on financial matters pertaining to assessing the charges.
National service framework for older people: a report of progress and future challenges, 2003
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The number of people aged over 65 has doubled in the last 70 years. Older people are living more active lives, spending more money and demanding more from services. The National Service Framework for Older People, launched two years ago, is an essential component of The NHS Plan. It set, for the first time, national standards for better, fairer and more integrated health and social care services for older people. The purpose of this report is to highlight the progress made by the NHS and social care with support from the Department of Health in these past two years.
Care homes for older people: national minimum standards and the Care Homes Regulations 2001
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 91p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
This document contains a statement of national minimum standards published by the Secretary of State under section 23(1) of the Care Standards Act 2000. The statement is applicable to care homes (as defined by section 3 of that Act) which provide accommodation, together with nursing or personal care, for older people. Each standard is, for explanatory purposes only, preceded by a title and an indication of the intended outcome in relation to that standard. The standards are grouped under the following key topics, which highlight aspects of individuals' lives identified during the stakeholder consultation as most important to service users: choice of home; health and personal care; daily life and social activities; complaints and protection; environment; staffing, management and administration.