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Avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions: the headlines
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Place of publication:
- London
This film explores the challenge of reducing hospital admissions for older people through contributions from a range of health and social care experts. Their reflections highlight the complex health needs of older people in this country, the need for responsive and joined up health and social care services, and the role that home care staff can play in helping to identify deteriorating conditions that may result in a hospital admission. The film acknowledges that at a crisis point, hospital admission may be the only safe alternative but argues that integrated care, well-managed hospital stays, improved health provision in care homes, reablement, and self-management of health conditions can all play a part in reducing hospital admissions. The film will be of interest to health and social care commissioners and managers; social workers; GPs and community nurses; health and social care providers; health and social care policy leads.
Healthy homes, healthier lives
- Authors:
- CARE AND REPAIR, (Producer)
- Publisher:
- Care and Repair England
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- DVD
- Place of publication:
- Nottingham
This DVD/CD-Rom illustrates how housing conditions can contribute to poor health, particularly amongst older and vulnerable people.
Government response to ACMD report 'Ageing cohort of drug users'
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health and Social Care
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Care
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Place of publication:
- London
A policy document which sets out the government's response to the four recommendations made in the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) report Ageing cohort of drug users. Officials from each of the four nations reviewed the council's advice and this document provides a coordinated response from the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations. The recommendations of the ACMD report include the need for training for specialist community-based drug treatment services on treatments and specific risks for older drug users and a pilot programme to assess whether the navigator model would help older drug users to engage with services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Excess winter deaths and illness and the health risks associated with cold homes
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
This NICE guideline makes practice recommendations on how to improve the health and wellbeing of people vulnerable to the cold and reduce the health risks associated with living in a cold home. It aims to help meet a number of public health goals, including reducing preventable excess winter deaths, reducing pressure on health and social care services, improve the energy efficiency of homes and reducing fuel poverty. It includes recommendations on: developing a strategy for people living in cold homes; identifying people at risk from cold homes; ensuring there is a single-point-of-contact health and housing referral service; training health and social care practitioners to help people with cold homes; raising awareness among practitioners and the public of how to keep warm at home; and ensuring buildings meet required standards. The guideline is aimed at health, social care and voluntary sector practitioners; commissioners; and housing and energy supplies. (Edited publisher abstract)
Learning disability: care and support of people growing older: (QS187)
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 30
- Place of publication:
- London
Quality standard covering identifying, assessing and regularly reviewing the care and support needs of people with a learning disability as they grow older. It focuses on the specific health and social care needs associated with an individual's learning disability. It contains five quality statements which describe what high-quality care looks the areas of: person-centred needs assessment, named lead practitioners, future planning and review, annual health checks and hospital admission. The standard provides information on the rationale for each quality statement, quality measures that can be used to monitor improvement and what the statement should mean for different audiences, including service providers, commissioners and people growing older with a learning disability. (Edited publisher abstract)
Care and support of people growing older with learning disabilities
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline provides practice advice for the care and support for adults with learning disabilities as they grow older. It covers care and support in all settings and aims to support people to access the services they need as they get older. The recommendations cover support needs, assessing and managing health needs, planning for the future, and supporting access to services including health, social care, housing and end of life care. The recommendations advise health and social care workers to help organise regular health assessments for older people with learning disabilities and to giving people with learning disabilities clear and regular information to help people get the help they need and prevent late diagnosis of age-related conditions. It also advises local authorities to ensure there are opportunities for people growing older with learning disabilities to socialise and be active in their communities. (Edited publisher abstract)