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All together now: a collaborative and relationship-centred approach to improving assessment and care management with older people in Swansea
- Authors:
- ANDREWS Nick, DRIFFIELD Deborah, POOLE Vicky
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 10(3), September 2009, pp.12-23.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
The need for more holistic and inclusive approaches to assessment and care management for older people is widely promoted but difficult to achieve. This paper describes the All Together Now initiative in Swansea, South Wales, which seeks to promote better practice in assessment and care management by actively involving all stakeholders, older people and family carers, and practitioners and service providers from across the statutory and third sectors. The project is underpinned by a relationship-centred approach based on the belief that an enriched environment of care will only be created when the needs of all stakeholders are acknowledged and given attention. How such a model was used to establish the goals for the project is described, together with the proposed model of evaluation.