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From pillow to post
- Author:
- VICTOR Christina
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 13.8.92, 1992, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Describes an inner-city project which identified deficiencies in admission policies, information flow and discharge arrangement; presents an action checklist to improve the procedures involved.
Leaving hospital: elderly people and their discharge to community care
- Authors:
- NEILL June, WILLIAMS Jenny
- Publisher:
- HMSO/National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 179p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes the experiences of a small group of people aged 75 years and over, during the time of their discharge from hospital and their first few weeks at home. Contains views and suggestions from the elderly people themselves, their carers and from the home help organisers and home helps who were in touch with them. The study underlines some of the communication problems between hospital and community care services. Implications for policy and practice are outlined.
The homefinder service
- Authors:
- MISKELLY F., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health Trends, 24(1), 1992, pp.25-26.
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
Describes the establishment of a Homefinder service for elderly patients at Charing Cross Hospital in 1985 and discusses its effect in reducing acute medical bed occupancy by long stay patients, over a period of five years.
Evaluating social work discharge planning services for elderly people: access, complexity and outcome
- Authors:
- OKTAY Julianne S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 17(4), November 1992, pp.290-298.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Reports on a study of 1,100 elderly patients from Baltimore hospitals which examined the extent to which elderly people most in need receive social work services, the extent to which the discharge planning performed is a professional task and the effectiveness of discharge planning for those who return to their own homes.