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Last rights: a study of how death and dying are handled in residential care and nursing homes
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 54p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of a study of how death is faced and supported in 6 residential care and nursing homes, providing models of good practice.
Election '97: information for owners, managers, staff and residents of residential care and nursing homes
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Briefing paper on how to enable older people in residential care to vote.
Under inspection: a research project into how inspection of residential care homes for older people is perceived by residents, relatives and managers
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 55p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Appraisal of the way Inspection and Registration Units function in relation to residential care for older people.
Care home handbook
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
Handbook providing information to service users and their carers about the issues around deciding on a care home, finding and paying for one, and living in a care home. Sections cover: Making a decision about care; Choosing a care home; Paying for a care home; Living in a care home, and Making a complaint. The final section provides a list of organisations that can provide further information and advice. Content is relevant for people in England and Wales.
Care home handbook
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
Provides information to service users and their carers about the issues around deciding on a care home, finding and paying for one, and living in a care home.
The real cost of quality care and support
- Authors:
- NATIONAL CARE FORUM, COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- National Care Forum; Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- Coventry
The findings of a survey of National Care Forum (NCF) member organisations to explore the issues of quality and cost in the provision of care and support services are presented. A total 189 care homes and 21 home care services responded to the survey. The key findings are briefly summarised under the following themes: the views of people who use services and their families; putting relationship-centred care into practice; effective leadership and management; learning and development; valuing and rewarding staff; service innovation; and income and costs.
Caring for loved ones in old age
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Lawpack
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 209p.
- Place of publication:
- London
One of the biggest challenges facing society is how we look after the growing number of older people. Medical advances have given us longer, healthier lives, but the cost is the demands placed on us as individuals, families and communities try to care for parents, relatives and friends in later life. This book provides guidance on a subject that most of us will have to face, but which few of us know very much about. It explains what help carers, and those they look after, can expect from the state, and the other self-funded options available.
Not only bingo: a study of good practice in providing recreation and leisure activities for older people in residential care and nursing homes
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 56p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report calls for greater efforts to be made to give residents in homes more fulfilling lives. Looks at Whitgift House in Croydon, Nightingale House in Balham and Glossoms End in Berkhamsted.
Residents taking risks: minimising the use of restraint; a guide for care homes
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
People who move into care and homes have the same rights as everyone else to make decisions as to how they should live their lives. Responsibly taking risks is part of normal life. This report argues that although care homes can never be totally risk free, those that do not allow residents to take risks are very dull places and may be in violation of residents' rights.
Not such private places: a study of privacy and the lack of privacy for residents in private and voluntary nursing homes in Greater London
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 31p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research study including examinations of the distribution of shared and single rooms, toilet facilities, the provision of locks and keys, and the ways in which residents are given choices about their daily lives.