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PSSRU survey of residential and nursing home care
- Author:
- DARTON Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Research Review, 5, May 1998, pp.26-30.
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
Outlines how, from 1st April 1993, new arrangements were introduced for the assessment of applicants for public funding for residential and nursing home care. There is considerable interest in the effects of the changes introduced on the characteristics of individuals admitted to home. Describes a study of residential and nursing home care for elderly people which provides profiles of both new admissions to homes and existing residents. In addition, the surveys were designed to enable comparisons to be made with previous surveys of residential and nursing home care.
Community care, secondary health care and care management
- Editors:
- CHALLIS David, DARTON Robin, STEWART Karen
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 178p.,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Contains papers on: care management and community care; community care and health care for older people; findings and lessons for care management, health care and community care from the Darlington study; the Darlington service past, present and future; the Cornwall experience with assessment and rehabilitation teams in the community; standardised assessment in the community; social services departments, secondary health care and community care; cost opportunities and constraints in developing secondary health care in the community; and linking community and health care.