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Achieving closure: good practice in supporting older people during residential care closures
- Authors:
- GLASBY Jon, ROBINSON Suzanne, ALLEN Kerry
- Publishers:
- Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, University of Birmingham. Health Services Management Centre
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 30p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Commissioned by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, this guide summarises emerging evidence about best practice when care homes for older people close and when residents need to be re-assessed and resettled. Its context is the mixed economy of care in the adult care home sector, the risk of increased ownership transfers and the impact this might have on older people. It is aimed at policy makers, managers and practitioners with responsibility for older people's services, and is intended to be read alongside the Social Care Association guidance Managing Care Home Closure. It draws on an overview of the literature, in-depth interviews with Directors of Adult Social Services with experience of overseeing care home closures, and emerging data from a detailed study of the outcomes of the modernisation of older people's services in Birmingham. Six key themes arose from the interviews: the importance of established policies and procedures, the importance of time, the role of assessment, the impact of closures, communication and information, and barriers and success factors. The report discusses the findings, with examples from the interviews. It notes the importance of following good practice for planned home closures or emergency closures.