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Who knows best? Top tips for managing the crisis: older people's emergency admissions to hospital
- Authors:
- GLASBY Jon, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham. School of Social Policy
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
This resource identifies ten key themes, or ‘top tips’, which could help health and social care services to reduce inappropriate hospital admissions. It has been developed from a national research project which involved interviews and focus groups with older people and their families, and front-line health and social care professionals. It is argued that these ‘perceptions’ from older people and front-line staff are important as they can have a significant impact on how people live their life and access services. The themes cover: not making older people feel they are a burden; making community alternatives to hospital easier to access; to distinguish between ‘inappropriate’ and ‘preventable’ admissions; the need for early action; the importance role of adult social care; and the importance of engaging with older people to understand and respond to the increasing number of emergency admissions. Quotations from older people, their families and professionals are included throughout to illustrate key points. (Edited publisher abstract)
Medication in extra care housing: factsheet
- Author:
- HOLDEN Michael
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- London
Update of the 2008 Housing LIN factsheet on the handling of medicines in extra care housing (ECH), taking into account recent policy, legislation and guidance. The factsheet highlights good practice recommendations covering areas such as safe storage, monitoring and record keeping, over-the-counter, medicines adherence support, and consent and choice. It also outlines additional areas for consideration when supporting people with dementia, for people using telecare devices to manage their own medicine, and supporting adherence to medication. It also sets out key lessons learned and provides a list of useful frequently asked questions. The factsheet is aimed at practitioners, commissioners, care service managers and housing managers working in extra care housing. (Edited publisher abstract)
Rights in roles: human rights: an overview for residential care staff
- Author:
- BRAP
- Publisher:
- Brap
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 26
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
This publication focuses on the human rights of people receiving residential care services, outlining what human rights are and the key terms and the legal framework relating to human rights and residential care. The United Kingdom has incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into domestic law, which sets out a range of rights particularly relevant to older people’s care homes. The document gives a brief description of these rights, including: right to life, prohibition of torture, and inhuman or degrading treatment, right to liberty and security, right to respect for private and family life, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression, freedom of association and assembly, right to marry and found a family, prohibition on discrimination in the enjoyment of ECHR rights, protection of property, and right to free elections. Other laws, including the Equality Act 2010 and the Mental Capacity Act, are also highlighted in this publication as relevant to the protection of human rights in the context of residential care. (Edited publisher abstract)
The missing million: a practical guide to identifying and talking about loneliness
- Author:
- CAMPAIGN TO END LONELINESS
- Publisher:
- Campaign to End Loneliness
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 22
- Place of publication:
- London
A practical guide providing advice to help commissioners, service providers, frontline staff and volunteers to better identify and engage with older people experiencing, or at risk of experiencing loneliness. The guide draws on evidence from an earlier Campaign to End Loneliness Report 'The missing million: in search of the loneliest in our communities'. The first section outlines a range of data sources to help identify loneliness, including heat maps, the Exeter data system of patients registered with GPs, and a Community Insight tool developed by the Housing Associations Charitable Trust. It also explores how working with local communities and developing partnerships with individuals, groups and other agencies can help to help identify loneliness. Examples show how existing social networks in communities also have an important role to play in providing support and reducing loneliness. The second section provides recommendations on how best to engage with older people, highlighting the importance of understanding what loneliness is, having the right skills to talk to older people about loneliness, and providing appropriate support for the individual. Examples of effective and innovative approaches to supporting older people experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, loneliness, are also included. These include social prescribing, Talk for Health, and using social media and technology. (Edited publisher abstract)
Older people and alcohol misuse: helping people stay in their homes
- Author:
- GILES Alison
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 14
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing is intended specifically to bring the issue of older people and alcohol misuse to the attention of professionals working in the social housing, care and support sectors. Alcohol harm amongst older people is increasing and it underpins or coexists with many of the other issues that professionals in these sectors are seeking to address among their older tenants and service users. The briefing aims to highlight current concerns and the national and local policy context, and to suggest ways in which the social housing, care and support sectors can work in partnership with local authority public health teams to ensure older people have access to appropriate treatment and support. Indeed, at different stages of alcohol misuse older people may need different services, from dealing with health issues, managing debt, obtaining or remaining in their home, to rebuilding relationships with families and friends. Housing and related support services must be flexible enough to respond to any or all of these needs. (Edited publisher abstract)
Administration of medicines in care homes (with nursing) for older people by care assistants
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 5
- Place of publication:
- London
Guidance setting out good practice for the safe management and handling of medicines in care homes with nursing for older people by care assistants. The guidance provides information for care home providers and staff on the legal framework for the administration of prescribed medicines for a named individual by care assistants and also covers safety and quality assurance requirements. It makes it clear that care workers, such as care assistants, are not prohibited from administering medicines to residents and looks at the responsibilities of the care home provider and the training they should provide. It is based on findings from an evidence-based review carried out by the University of Leeds. (Edited publisher abstract)
Rights in roles: resource pack: managing risk positively
- Author:
- BRAP
- Publisher:
- Brap
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 30
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
This resource pack aims to support care staff and managers working in residential elderly care to adopt a positive approach to risk that focuses on promoting the human rights of residents in a balanced and fair way and enabling residents – as far as possible – to make their own decisions about what they can and cannot do. The resource is based on two fundamental principles: first, that the best relationships between people who live and work in residential care happen when there is a shared understanding of what acceptable levels of risk look like in particular situations; and second, that the best care for residents happens when the main role of risk management is to enable residents to enjoy their human rights and live their lives in a way that they value, as opposed to avoiding risk to defend the home from potential blame or reputational loss. The resource pack contains three toolkits: toolkit 1 - front line staff, considering why thinking about risk positively can protect the rights of older people and what positive risk enablement means and how to do it; toolkit 2 - leaders and managers, examining their role in creating a positive attitude to risk within their home; and toolkit 3 - balancing risks and decision making, explaining how to be creative about managing the outcome of risk assessment and better support the rights of residents. (Edited publisher abstract)
Rights in roles: resource pack: resident engagement
- Author:
- BRAP
- Publisher:
- Brap
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 38
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
This resource pack aims to help care home staff – and especially frontline staff – make the most of effective resident engagement by using it in a way that actively supports and promotes the human rights of residents and their relatives and carers. The resource contains five toolkits: toolkit 1 - frontline staff and decision making, examining why good quality decision-making is essential to promoting human rights and providing practical tips on what frontline staff can do to empower residents and improve the quality of decision-making; toolkit 2 – frontline staff and communication, considering why a good quality approach to communication is essential to promoting human rights and including practical tips on what frontline staff can do to empower residents and improve the quality of communication; toolkit 3 – frontline staff and complaints, explaining why complaints should be seen as a by-product of a good quality care environment, and the role that complaints can play in assuring and protecting human rights; toolkit 4 - front line staff and bias, looking at how to improve non-discriminatory practice as a care worker; and toolkit 5 - leadership and resident engagement, focusing on the role of leaders in creating an environment where engagement can flourish and human rights are promoted. (Edited publisher abstract)
Towards an age-friendly European Union: advocacy toolkit for older people and their organisations
- Editors:
- LUHERNE Maude, SINIGAGLIA Alice
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 44
- Place of publication:
- Brussels
Practical guidelines aimed at older people’s organisations on how to influence the decision-making processes that concern them and on how to be part of innovation processes. More specifically, the toolkit is designed to supports organisations in advocating for an age-friendly European Union; influencing EU policies that are relevant for older people; influencing policy makers and other stakeholders at all levels; building partnerships; and staying up-to-dated on relevant EU policies and funding opportunities. The toolkit provides: background information on ageing and why age-friendly environments are needed; an action model that can be adapted to a wide range of campaigns; tips and tricks to help organisation plan and assess their strategies and actions; and tools to implement your actions. It also includes useful tips and information to other civil society organisations or movements committed to influencing the EU or national policies that are relevant for them. (Edited publisher abstract)
Combating loneliness: a guide for local authorities
- Author:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Local Government Association
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 32
- Place of publication:
- London
Building on the latest evidence, this guide sets out a range of actions for effectively combating loneliness, focusing on older people. Loneliness is a significant and growing issue for many older people and its impacts are devastating and costly – with comparable health impacts to smoking and obesity. The report suggests that effective action to combat loneliness is best delivered in partnership and should take place in the context of a wider strategy to promote older people’s wellbeing. Key recommendations for action include: consider ‘addressing loneliness’ as an outcome measure of council strategies; work at the neighbourhood level, to understand and build on existing community capacity and assets; recognise and respond to individual needs and circumstances by both making sure general services are geared up to meet the needs of those who are lonely, as well as providing specific interventions as required; pooling resources and intelligence across organisations and developing new partnerships may increase the benefits for those who are hard to reach or isolated. (Edited publisher abstract)