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Older people
- Author:
- MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 18, October 2004, pp.33-38.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Discusses 8 recent publications. Says the National Service Framework for Older People continues to influence development of services but asks if the needs of users are adequately covered. Comments on community living, electronic resources, intermediate care, independence for older people and new approaches. Lists points for practice.
Encouraging independence in continence management
- Author:
- GREEN Danielle
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing and Residential Care, 14(6), June 2012, pp.272-277.
- Publisher:
- MA Healthcare Ltd.
- Place of publication:
- London
This article is based on the diploma course HSC 2016: Level 2 ‘Support individuals to manage continence'. This optional unit assesses the health and social care worker’s knowledge, understanding and capability when carrying out continence-related activities in the workplace. Incontinence, whether faecal or urinary, is classified as the loss of control over the body’s waste disposal systems. This can be the result of physical problems, lifestyle factors, and underlying medical conditions. Lifestyle changes, tools and aids can provide temporary or long-term relief to a person with continence issues. Staff must involve individuals in care decisions to maintain dignity and encourage personal choice. Care plans and other care records need to be comprehensive and detailed, and dealt with like any other aspect of care.
Transitions in the lives of older adults with intellectual disabilities: “having a sense of dignity and independence”
- Author:
- STRNADOVA Iva
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 16(1), 2019, pp.58-66.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Older people with intellectual disabilities (ID) experience numerous transitions in their lives, which include transitions between jobs, places of residence, relationship transitions, and transitions to retirement. Ensuring quality planning for the future is important so that older people with ID can live good lives. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore planning for the future and transitions experienced by older people with ID. The author conducted semi‐structured in‐depth interviews with 17 people with ID aged 40 years and more. The interviews were analyzed using inductive content analysis. The three main themes were types of transitions, planning for future, and barriers to planning for future. The implications for research and practice are discussed, with a focus on enhancing independence and choice‐making. (Edited publisher abstract)
Home care: delivering personal care and practical support to older people living in their own homes: NG21
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
Practice guideline providing good practice advice on the planning and delivery of person-centred home care and domiciliary care for older people. The guideline aims to promote older people's independence and to ensure safe and consistently high quality home care services. The guideline was developed by a guideline development group following a detailed review of the evidence on home care. The recommendations cover: ensuring care is person centred; providing information about care and support options; planning and reviewing home care and support; delivering home care, including advice on the length of home care visits; joint working between health and social care; ensuring safety and safeguarding people using home care services; and recruiting, training and supporting home care workers. The guideline also highlights the importance of prioritising continuity of care by ensuring the person has the same home care worker or workers so that they can become familiar and build a relationship. Recommendations for future research are provided. The guideline is for health and social care practitioners, home care providers, home care managers, home care workers, commissioners of home care in local authorities and CCGs and people using or planning to use home care services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Building a local infrastructure that supports the use of assistive technology in the care of people with dementia
- Authors:
- WOOLHAM John, FRISBY Brian
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 20(1), 2002, pp.11-24.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
There is a growing interest in the potential of assistive technology to contribute to the care of people with dementia. However, despite this interest, no local social care or heath service provider has developed services that utilise technology. This article suggests that a major obstacle is the absence of an infrastructure to support its use. This infrastructure is described within a process containing a series of distinct steps. Within each of these steps the article looks at current practice and what needs to happen to enable technology to be properly used. It argues that local infrastructures are needed to create the conditions within which technology can be successfully used, though some of the issues may be more efficiently addressed at a national level.
Housing public health and community care
- Authors:
- HARRISON Lyn, HEYWOOD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 3(2), June 2000, pp.8-13.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The establishment of community care principles should have led to increased provision of independence-enhancing housing services to older people, but the trend has been in the opposite direction. A research project considered the place of housing in public health and community care planning and the potential of primary health care workers to supply information. The article identifies obstacles to change and proposes an approach which would ensure that information on housing needs was routinely collected and fed into planning processes.
Volunteer 'partners' give a voice to the frail and elderly
- Author:
- BAKER Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 3(1), September 1996, pp.27-29.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Describes a project in Wakefield, "Talk-back", which aims to ensure that older people's needs and preferences become known to community care planners.
Better care higher standards: summary report of the inter-agency workshop 5 April 2000
- Publisher:
- Suffolk County Council
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Ipswich
Aims to provide standards for long term care in Suffolk covering issues such as provision of information, assessment and care planning, housing, independence, health care, benefits and complaints procedures.
Better care, higher standards: a charter for long-term care; a summary for users and carers
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Charter for anyone in England who is eighteen or over and has difficulties associated with old age, long term illness or disability; and carers who support people in these circumstances. The Charter tells anyone who needs care or support over the long term where they can expect local housing, health and social services to set standards for the services they provide and what to do if these expectations are not met.
Better care, higher standards: a charter for long-term care; April 2002-March 2003
- Author:
- SOUTH TYNESIDE. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- South Tyneside. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 71p.
- Place of publication:
- South Shields
Aims to provide standards for long term care in South Tyneside, covering issues such as provision of information, assessment and care planning, housing, independence, health care, benefits and complaints procedures.