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Beat the heat: keep residents safe and well
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 2
- Place of publication:
- London
A quick guide for care home staff on how to respond to high temperatures, including actions they may need to take to keep residents safe. Keeping cool in hot weather is very important for health. In previous hot weather in the UK and Europe, people in residential and nursing homes were at particularly high risk of illness and death. The guide highlights specific measures to help: identify residents at highest risk; keep resident cool; keep the building cool; and take action in the event of a heat-related illness. Includes a checklist to help ascertain whether staff and the care home are prepared for hot weather. (Edited publisher abstract)
Helping older people maintain a healthy diet: a review of what works
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Place of publication:
- London
This review of evidence looks at ‘what works’ in supporting older people to maintain a healthy diet and reduce the risk of malnutrition. Malnutrition in older people can have a significant impact on their health and social care needs. The report draws on evidence from a literature review on the success criteria for community programmes encouraging healthy eating for people over 65 years; and on findings from telephone interviews with older people’s leads from PHE centres, local authorities, local AHSNs and third sector organisations in England to discover what examples of emerging practices exist that could be scaled-up and used by others. The literature review highlighted four programme success criteria: access to healthier food and drink options and food poverty; ability to prepare healthier food; functional and cognitive impairment and ability to eat healthier food including poor oral health; and food and dietary resilience. Findings on emerging practice show that many areas have developed innovative programmes of work aimed at tackling malnutrition among older people. These include: Purbeck Malnutrition Taskforce Pilot; Older People’s Essential Nutrition (OPEN), Eastleigh; Nutrition and Wellbeing Service, Hertfordshire Independent Living Service (HILS); Vitality for Life, Kensington and Chelsea; Paperweight armbands and raising awareness of malnutrition among older people, Salford; Staffordshire Eat Well programme; Casserole Club, Staffordshire; and One to One Nutritional Support, Kent. (Edited publisher abstract)
Falls and fracture consensus statement: supporting commissioning for prevention
- Authors:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND, NATIONAL FALLS PREVENTION COORDINATION GROUP
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 22
- Place of publication:
- London
This document outlines interventions and approaches that local commissioners and strategic leads in England should consider in order to help prevent falls and fractures in older people. It has been produced by the National Falls Prevention Coordination Group (NFPCG), which was set up with the aim of coordinating falls prevention activity in England and encourage ‘whole-system’ local commissioning for falls prevention. It highlights interventions which cover the whole of the patient pathway, from risk reduction to providing care for older people who have suffered injury following a fall. These include risk reduction, risk assessment, strength and balance exercise programmes, healthy homes, and interventions in high-risk care environments such a hospitals, care and nursing homes. It also explains how commissioning for falls and fracture prevention involves working across the health, social care and housing sectors. It provides advice on how falls prevention can be supported at all stages of the commissioning cycle, including - assessing needs, designing services, sourcing providers, delivering to service users, monitoring and evaluation, and in the governance frameworks that oversee and assure this activity. It also sets out the future commitments of the National Falls Prevention Coordination Group. (Edited publisher abstract)
Better mental health: JSNA toolkit
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Place of publication:
- London
This toolkit has been developed to support the development of mental health and wellbeing joint strategic needs assessments (JSNAs). It aims to help people to consider factors that affect mental health and wellbeing and to identify some of the key data, information and knowledge that local areas may use to build a picture of need and assess local services. The guide begins with sections on understanding place and understanding people. These focus on understanding risk, wellbeing, prevention and community resilience in the local population. Later sections cover the mental health care pathway, following a life course approach. These include the perinatal period, children and young people, working age adults and older people. Each section follows a similar structure and includes: a list of potential questions a JSNA may attempt to answer; overview of relevant policy and guidance; list of available national data sources; ideas for sources of local data; and links to relevant evidence and further information. The guide accompanies the Mental Health and Wellbeing JSNA fingertips profile. (Edited publisher abstract)