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People not parcels: a discussion document to explore the issues surrounding the use of electronic tagging on older people in residential care and nursing homes
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Smarter spending for better care: ten ideas to make better use of social care funding for older people and carers
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
With the budgetary pressures facing local authorities in England, it is important to identify how better value for money could be achieved from current spending on social care. The drive for efficiencies should not be at the detriment of older people with care and support needs and their families and carers. This document provides 10 ideas to make better use of current social care funding while improving quality of care and experiences for older people and their carers. It argues that better value for money could be achieved by re-focusing resources on: providing easily accessible advice, information and advocacy; recognising the key role that families and carers play; specialist independent financial advice; supporting people to stay or move where they want to be in later life; integration of housing, health and care; new technology (telecare and telehealth); personalisation (making sure care is focused on the person); prevention, early intervention and homechecks; volunteering and intergenerational work; and dementia drugs and treatments. These ideas could result in the delivery of better care at the same time as saving up to £3 billion.
Sound barriers: a study of the needs of older people with hearing loss living in residential care and nursing homes
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 21p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Older people with hearing impairment are being denied vital help. This report suggests constructive steps to be taken. Some require mere adjustments in the outlook and attitudes of staff. Services are inadequate, lack direction and suffer from lack of trained staff. These services share in a general poverty of provision for older people.
The right to take risks: model policies, guidance to staff and training material on restraint and risk taking in residential care and nursing homes for older people
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 1v.,looseleaf.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains policies and guidelines on: principles of care relating to risk taking by older people in residential care; how to deal with restraint and risk taking in care plans; residents who are liable to get or fall out of bed; residents who are restless; electronic tagging; day to day relationships between residents and staff; involving relatives and friends; and managing and supporting staff. Also contains a classification of restraint taken from What if they hurt themselves, and a section containing training material.