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Hospital discharge of older people with cognitive impairment to care homes
- Author:
- BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- British Geriatrics Society
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 2p.
The scope of this document is confined to the safe and appropriate discharge of older people with cognitive impairment from hospital to a care home. It is a given, within the context of this document, that discharge to any other care setting has been deemed inappropriate as the result of a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA). A separate British Geriatrics Society (BGS) compendium document deals with the wider context of hospital discharge of frail older people.
Quest for quality: British Geriatrics Society joint working party inquiry into the quality of healthcare support for older people in care homes: a call for leadership, partnership and quality improvement
- Author:
- BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- British Geriatrics Society
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 46p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Residents of Care homes have complex healthcare needs, reflecting multiple long-term conditions, significant disability and frailty. However, the social care model is insufficient to meet residents‟ health needs. This report describes current NHS support for care homes. It describes unmet need, unacceptable variation and often poor quality of care provided by the NHS to the estimated 400,000 older people resident in UK care homes. It also describes what should and could be done and calls for national action by government and local action by NHS commissioners, planners and clinical services to improve the quality of NHS support to care homes. It highlights the need to build joint professional leadership from the health, social, and care home sectors, statutory regulators and patient advocacy groups to find the solutions that none of these can achieve alone. The report recommends that local NHS planners/commissioners should ensure that clear and specific service specifications are agreed with their local NHS providers. These need to link with quality standards based on patient experience and appropriate clinical outcomes.
Ambitions for change: improving healthcare in care homes
- Author:
- BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- British Geriatrics Society
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 14
- Place of publication:
- London
This report describes the care home sector across the UK as it currently stands and recent initiatives taken to improve healthcare for care home residents, including specific initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic. It describes how health and wellbeing has traditionally been supported in care homes and sets out what good healthcare provision in a care home environment should look like. The report sets out a few of the more common conditions which staff are required to support their residents to manage on a daily basis, including: cognitive impairment and mental health; end of life care in care homes; falls; nutrition and hydration; continence care and assessment; medicine optimisation. The report then details what good care in care homes looks like and what all older people living in a care home should expect from the staff looking after them, focusing on: person-centred care for care home residents; development of a skilled care home clinical workforce; providing hospital-style care in care homes; joined-up approach to data collection and sharing. The report makes 11 recommendations for local and national Governments and decision-makers to consider, including ensuring the NHS across the UK should work with care homes to roll out and fund programmes to enable enhanced healthcare services to be provided in all care homes. (Edited publisher abstract)
COVID-19: Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in care homes
- Author:
- BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- British Geriatrics Society
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Place of publication:
- London
Good practice guidance developed to help care home staff, and NHS staff who work with them, to support care home residents through the coronavirus pandemic. Sections cover: identifying residents who may have COVID-19 and how to respond; isolating residents; advance care planning; decisions about escalation of care to hospital; and supporting care home residents and staff.[First published: 30 March 2020; Last updated: 02 June 2020, version 3]. (Edited publisher abstract)
Effective healthcare for older people living in care homes: guidance on commissioning and providing healthcare services across the UK
- Author:
- BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- British Geriatrics Society
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
Updated guidance setting out principles of good practice principles for commissioning and providing healthcare to older people living in in care homes. It highlights the benefits for older people, for the local NHS and for local care homes as a result of having appropriate services in place. It describes the activities that will enable these outcomes to be achieved, and includes suggestions for how services can be monitored and evaluated to see if they are having a positive impact. The guidance is for commissioners, policy makers, service providers, and for anyone with an interest in ensuring that older people living in care homes have access to healthcare that meets their needs. (Edited publisher abstract)
Enhancing the health of older people in long-term care: clinical guidelines
- Authors:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. Research Unit, BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY, ROYAL SURGICAL AID SOCIETY-AGECARE
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Physicians
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 76p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report containing clinical guidelines for enhancing the quality of health care for older people in long term care. These tackle common clinical challenges that have a link to quality of life. Includes sections on: dementia; depression; disability; preserving autonomy; promoting urinary continence; promoting faecal continence; optimising medication; preventing and managing falls; and preventing and managing pressure sores.
Depression among older people living in care homes: collaborative approaches to treatment
- Authors:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS, BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY
- Publishers:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists, British Geriatrics Society
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 28
- Place of publication:
- London
Showcases good practice examples of effective interdisciplinary collaboration between geriatricians, allied health professionals, and psychiatrists who are working with older people with depression living care homes. It identifies key features from the case studies and highlights the importance of addressing the divide between mental and physical healthcare in order to provide the best care for older people living with frailty. Key themes from the case studies included person-centred care; the use of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and multidisciplinary working; professional development and training; and voluntary and community sector involvement. The eight examples are from: Gateshead Care Home Initiative, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust’s care home liaison service, Tri-borough in-reach service for care homes in South London, multi-disciplinary care home and community liaison model in Dorset; University Hospital of South Manchester Nursing Home Service; the Integrated care pilot Nazareth House, West London Mental Health Trust. The report aims to promote awareness and understanding of the key features of best practice among practitioners, commissioners and policy-makers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Palliative and end of life care for older people: best practice guide
- Author:
- BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- British Geriatrics Society
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
Good end of life care is an important component in the care of older people. Palliative care seeks to influence improvement in the quality of life of patients with incurable disease by advocating a holistic, problem-orientated approach, including symptom control. Cancer patients are traditionally viewed as the primary recipients of palliative care, but it is increasingly recognised that good palliative care is important in the management of patients with any incurable disease, whatever the diagnosis (e.g. dementia, chronic chest disease, chronic heart failure, motor neurone disease, Parkinson's disease). Since the majority of people die at an older age, this is particularly relevant to those caring for older people.