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National Audit Office: five cross-cutting studies on older people and government 2002
- Author:
- SIDELL Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 12(1), April 2002, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Briefly looks at five topics selected by the NOA's cross-cutting studies team. The topics are: tackling pensioner poverty; making e-services accessible to all; developing effective services for older people; increasing flexibility in work; and ensuring the effective discharge of older patients from hospital.
Care services for later life: transformation and critiques
- Editors:
- WARNES Anthony M., WARREN Lorna, NOLAN Michael
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 531p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of essays exploring care for the elderly in a time of social and demographic change. Explores the assumptions and values underlying current provision including the rationing of care and the new National Service Framework, and then examines specific areas such as the experience of older people in ethnic minorities, the use of telematics, the care of the dying, and entering into residential care.
Counsel and Care's home care agency database
- Author:
- DAVIES Stephanie
- Journal article citation:
- Integrate News, 68, February 1998, p.23.
Outlines the purpose and scope of Counsel and Care's home care agency database. Counsel and Care is a national charity which specialises in giving advice on hospital discharge procedures, finding and funding places in residential care and nursing homes, raising money from charities for single needs grants, checking welfare benefits entitlement, and community care issues generally.
An electronic referral system supporting integrated hospital discharge
- Authors:
- WILBERFORCE Mark, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 25(2), 2017, pp.99-109.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the implementation and potential value of an electronic referral system to improve integrated discharge planning for hospitalised older adults with complex care needs. This new technology formed part of the “Common Assessment Framework for Adults” policy in England. Design/methodology/approach: Mixed methods were undertaken as part of a case study approach within an acute hospital in the North West of England. First, qualitative interviews were undertaken with practitioners to explore early experiences using the new technology. Second, routinely collected administrative data were analysed, comparing referrals made using the new technology and those made through the usual paper-based process. Findings: Qualitative interviews found that an electronic discharge system has, in principle, the potential to improve the efficiency and suitability of integrated care planning. However, the implementation proved fragile to decisions taken elsewhere in the local care system, meaning its scope was severely curtailed in practice. Several “socio-technical” issues were identified, including the loss of valuable face-to-face communication by replacing manual with electronic referrals. Research limitations/implications: The small number of patients referred during the implementation phase meant that patient outcomes could not be definitively judged. Research into the longer-term implications and value of electronic referral systems is needed. Originality/value: There is concern that attempts to integrate health and social care are stymied by incompatible systems for recording service user information. This research explores a novel attempt to share assessment information and improve support planning across health and social care boundaries. (Publisher abstract)
Telecare outcomes and mainstreaming: summary of responses by social care authorities to CSCI performance assessment 2008
- Author:
- DH CARE NETWORKS. Telecare Learning and Improvement Network
- Publisher:
- DH Care Networks. Telecare Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Since the time of data collection (April/May 2008), a number of other Local Authority/Primary Care Trust partnerships have been developing telehealth programmes. These have not been included in this report but can be identified through updates in the telecare newsletters. Some of the responses indicate that the service had not commenced at the time of the data collection but were planned for 2008 and beyond. The responses generally relate to small pilots (between 5 and 50 users) at the time of data collection.
How are we to grow old?
- Author:
- BURLEY Robin
- Journal article citation:
- New Technology in the Human Services, 14(1/2), 2001, pp.3-8.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Human Service Technology
In our society the phrase ‘the elderly’ conjures up a picture of passive recipients of care tended by nurses in a stone built Victorian mansion at the end of a long drive. None of us would want this for ourselves in later life and yet we seem to accept it as the inevitable consequence of ageing, at least when we think of the ageing of others. For us, no doubt, things will be different, or will it? The Royal Commission on Long Term Care reminded us that in recent years it has become common for older people to go into residential or nursing home care after a crisis in their own home or on discharge from hospital. (Sutherland S, 1999) Despite the evidence around us, most of us will assume we have some sort of immunity to the physical slowing down and dependence on others that goes with this image of ageing. But if we, as a society do not take action, many of us will be driven down that long one-way drive to the Victorian mansion. Professor Tom Kirkwood, in the first of his Reith Lectures, drew attention to the prejudice that exists in relation to older people. “On a regular basis we read, hear, or ourselves make flippant, jokey or negative remarks about the state of being old. ‘Grumpy old’, ‘silly old’, ‘boring old’, ‘dirty old’ - the linkages are so familiar that we fail to notice what we are doing.” These are the underlying cultural prejudices that permeate the social environment in which our grandparents and parents have grown old. When we design services for them we seem to overlook their capacity to be contributors or their desire to be independent. If we do nothing to change the way we regard ageing, these will be the cultural influences that will shape the way we grow old.