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Unlocking the potential of adult social care critical review tool
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Place of publication:
- London
Critical review tool to help social care leaders move towards a strengths-based, whole-place approach. This critical review tool is for leaders in local authorities and partners with responsibilities for adult social care to assess their ambitions, strengths, and development areas in relation to developing strengths-based care and support across a local place. It focuses on nine critical domains to help leaders and people working in adult care and support to understand where they are now and what they need to consider if they are to make progress. The domains are: develop a strengths-based vision and framework; leading a strengths-based approach; developing a strengths-based approach to commissioning; working in partnership; effective and enabling systems, processes and information; delivering to a high standard and quality; co-producing with people who draw on services and carers; developing the skills and capabilities of the workforce; understanding and measuring impact. Good practice examples and links to helpful tools and resources are also provided. (Edited publisher abstract)
Maximising the potential of reablement
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 46
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide is based on research and practice evidence about the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of reablement. Reablement is meant to help people accommodate illness or disability by learning or re-learning the skills necessary for daily living. The guide looks at: physical, psychological and social needs; commissioning and joint working; staff development; outcomes; support services; people with dementia and reablement; and support for people once their programme of reablement is over in order to maintain progress. (Edited publisher abstract)
COVID-19: information and guidance for care home settings (adults and older people)
- Author:
- Public Health Scotland
- Publisher:
- Public Health Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 62
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
- Edition:
- Version 2.7
This guidance supports those working in care home settings and users of their services about COVID-19. It should be used for care homes for adults and older people, that is, all care homes registered with the Care Inspectorate, excluding those for children and young people. The guidance covers: measures to prevent transmission of COVID-19; providing care for residents during the pandemic; testing in the care home; management of symptomatic or test positive care home residents; admission of individuals to the care home; staff information; visiting arrangements for family and friends; death certification during the pandemic. (Edited publisher abstract)
Putting people first: personal budgets for older people: making it happen
- Author:
- DH CARE NETWORKS. Personalisation Network
- Publisher:
- DH Care Networks. Personalisation Network
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 65p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide has been produced for councils and their partners to assist in developments for increasing older people’s choice and control over their support. It particularly focuses on those elements of personalisation associated with making personal budgets work well for older people and their families. Although the main focus is on the flexible use of social care funding, there is huge potential for person centred approaches to be adopted by services and organisations supporting older people who are not eligible for council funded support.
Dignity in care
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Place of publication:
- London
This practical guide helps to define dignity in care, as well as how best to implement it. Care with dignity is a central part of quality in care work – it supports the self-respect of the person, recognising their capacities and ambitions, and does nothing to undermine it; and it values what they can do, who they are, and the life they have lived. The guide is aimed at care providers, managers and staff who work with adults – especially older adults. It defines the meaning of real everyday dignity to the lives of people receiving social care, their carers, families and friends, as well as the managers and staff who provide it. Topics discussed include: defining dignity; recognising the individual; skills and strengths; communication; freedom to choose; privacy; involvement and inclusion; warmth and kindness; a dignified life; and a dignified death. Throughout the guide, the links between dignity and key policy issues, including Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulations, are highlighted. (Edited publisher abstract)
Age equality and age discrimination in social care: an interim practice guide
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This practice guide, commissioned by the Department of Health, supports the promotion of age equality and the elimination of age discrimination in adult social care. Three broad principles underpin an age equality strategy for adult social care: citizenship - each individual, regardless of their age, is a full and equal citizen; equity - people have a right to expect fairness, regardless of age; and sustainability - systems should be put in place to maintain the quality of service provision and practice for people of all ages. Topics include: involving older people, promoting social inclusion, developing personalised services, leadership, equal access, equitable resource allocation and maintaining the quality of older people's services.
Local authority interventions to improve quality in supported housing
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide brings together work undertaken by the five local authorities who participated in the 2020-2021 Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) supported housing pilots. Supported housing is accommodation packaged with support or care to enable some of the most vulnerable people to live as independently as possible in the community. The aim of this guide is to share learning from the pilot authorities' experience of improving quality and value for money in supported housing. The pilots were undertaken in response to increasing reports of providers using the welfare system to fund unjustified levels of rent and service charges and not providing good quality care, support or supervision for vulnerable people. The pilot authorities worked to address these concerns, focussing where poor quality is most often concentrated - in non-commissioned, supported 'exempt' accommodation. This guide sets out how the pilots conducted their activities but is not exhaustive and other local authorities may address quality concerns in different ways. Activities outlined in this guide include: establishing a council multidisciplinary team; undertaking strategic planning to understand local need and supply; conducting a standardised assessment of new providers and schemes; reviewing resident support; completing accommodation inspections; planning and targeting interventions effectively. The guide also addresses potential risks and challenges. (Edited publisher abstract)
Integrated care for older people (ICOPE) implementation framework: guidance for systems and services
- Author:
- WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
- Publisher:
- World Health Organization
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 52
- Place of publication:
- Geneva
The framework provides guidance on how to implement the Integrated care for older people (ICOPE) approach in member states. The ICOPE approach is underpinned by the principle that functional ability can be maximised when services and systems integrate health and social care for older people in a manner that responds to their unique needs - that is, in a person centred manner. The framework can be used to: identify older people in the community in need of health and social care; assess the capacity of services or systems to deliver integrated care at the community level using the ICOPE approach; and initiate an ICOPE implementation plan according to capacity. The framework includes 19 implementation actions. The macro-level system components cover: strengthening governance and accountability systems; and enabling system-level strengthening. The meso-level service components cover: engaging and empowering people and communities; supporting the coordination of services delivered by multidisciplinary providers; and directing services towards community-based care. The document includes an ICOPE implementation scorecard and is based around actions needed against individual scores for each of the 19 implementation actions. (Edited publisher abstract)
A quality framework for care homes for adults and older people: for use in self-evaluation, scrutiny, and improvement support
- Author:
- CARE INSPECTORATE
- Publisher:
- Care Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 77
- Place of publication:
- Dundee
This revised quality framework covers care homes for both adults and older people which provide a range of different supports to different people with a wide variety of needs and outcomes. The primary purpose of a quality framework is to support services to evaluate their own performance. The same framework is then used by inspectors to provide independent assurance about the quality of care and support. By setting out what we expect to see in a high-quality service, we can also help support improvement. Using a framework in this way develops a shared understanding of what constitutes good care and support. The quality framework is framed around six key questions. The first of these is: How well do we support people’s wellbeing? To try and understand what contributes to that, there are four further key questions: How good is our leadership? How good is our staff team? How good is our setting? How well is our care planned? Under each key question, there are up to five quality indicators. These have been developed to help answer the key questions. Each quality indicator has key areas, short bullet points which make clear the areas of practice covered by it. Under each quality indicator, we have provided quality illustrations of these key areas at two levels on the six point scale that we use in inspections. The final key question is: What is our overall capacity for improvement? This requires a global judgement based on evidence and evaluations from all other key areas. The judgement is a forward-looking assessment, but also takes account of contextual factors which might influence the capacity of an organisation to improve the quality of services in the future. Such factors might include changes of senior staff, plans to restructure, or significant changes in funding. We think this an important question to ask as part of a self-evaluation of care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Self-neglect and hoarding: a guide to safeguarding and support
- Author:
- BARNETT Deborah
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 264
- Place of publication:
- London
Hoarding and self-neglect are estimated to be a factor in 20% of social workers' cases when working with older people or adults with mental health issues. This guide introduces the patterns of self-neglect and how challenging they can be to identify. It offers practical and applicable tools and solutions for all professionals involved in working with people who self-neglect. It includes tips for assessment and decision-making in the support process, and updates following the implementation of the Care Act 2014, which deemed self-neglect a safeguarding matter. (Edited publisher abstract)