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Home care: commissioning for older people with complex needs
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Place of publication:
- London
This film highlights the challenges of commissioning home care for older people. It shows examples of providing good quality, person centred home care for older people with complex needs. The St Monica's trust approach to high quality person centred home care is built on the recruitment of the right staff and support , training and partnership working. This resource is aimed at commissioners of home care for older people, commissioners, care providers and carers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Demand for adult social care across counties and unitary authorities in England
- Author:
- OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
- Publication year:
- 2018
This paper explores how demand for adult social care varies across England using interactive maps. It aims to capture the need for care services throughout adulthood, as well as recognising that an ageing population is likely to impact on the demand for these services. It presents a brief selection of indicators that are available at county and unitary authority level, along with links to further sources of data. In relation to the supply and quality of adult social care, the paper covers the areas: number of care home beds, number of hours of home care provided, average number of day care clients, number of people providing unpaid care, number of adult social care jobs, and satisfaction with care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Older people and quality of life: better life in residential care
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 4 minutes 11 seconds
- Place of publication:
- London
This video shows older people with high support needs who live in a care home. They talk about what is important in their lives and how they like to be treated. It is based around the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's (JRF) A Better Life programme, and attempts to convey a set of key messages for practitioners. These include: seeing and treating older people with high support needs as individuals and helping them to do the things they want to do; building positive relationships with the people practitioners work with; looking for the strengths and assets each person has and supporting them to play an active role in the development and provision of services; and being open to doing things in new ways. This resource is aimed at anyone involved in providing services to older people with high support needs – commissioners, managers, social workers, care workers and educators – and older people with high support needs and their families and carers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Assessing the mental health needs of older people
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
This web-based resource provides an overview of information and current practice to all those involved in assessing the social care needs of older people with mental health needs. It is aimed primarily at practitioners undertaking assessments, in particular, those front-line staff who may be the first professional in contact with an older person or their family and friends. The Guide provides access to the information and skills that inform sound judgements in the support of service users and carers. Its coverage includes: messages from research; current policy and guidance; service users and carers; the social workers role in assessment; assessing need; black and minority ethnic older people; implications of the Mental Health Act 1983; and interagency working. Also incorporated in the contents are practice and service examples, useful further reading and links to additional information on the web and to full text of official guidance and standards. (Previously published as SCIE Practice Guide no. 2).
Government response to ACMD report 'Ageing cohort of drug users'
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health and Social Care
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Care
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Place of publication:
- London
A policy document which sets out the government's response to the four recommendations made in the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) report Ageing cohort of drug users. Officials from each of the four nations reviewed the council's advice and this document provides a coordinated response from the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations. The recommendations of the ACMD report include the need for training for specialist community-based drug treatment services on treatments and specific risks for older drug users and a pilot programme to assess whether the navigator model would help older drug users to engage with services. (Edited publisher abstract)
See change: a resource pack for commissioners and service providers to help them in implementing the National Service Framework for Older people
- Author:
- ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND
- Publisher:
- Royal National Institute for the Blind
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 43p., 2 CD ROMs
- Place of publication:
- London
This resource pack seeks to raise awareness about the prevalence of sight problems among people over the age of sixty. It focuses on the support older visually impaired people need to maintain their independence and that resources are directed to addressing key issues in a timely and cost effective manner.
Older people and quality of life: better life in the community
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 4 minutes 20 seconds
- Place of publication:
- London
This video shows older people with high support needs who live in the community. They talk about what is important in their lives and how they like to be treated. It is based around the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's A Better Life programme, and attempts to convey a set of key messages for practitioners. These include: seeing and treating older people with high support needs as individuals and helping them to do the things they want to do; building positive relationships with the people practitioners work with; looking for the strengths and assets each person has and supporting them to play an active role in the development and provision of services; and being open to doing things in new ways. This resource is aimed at anyone involved in providing services to older people with high support needs – commissioners, managers, social workers, care workers and educators – and older people with high support needs and their families and carers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Local needs databank
- Author:
- NEW PHILANTHROPY CAPITAL
- Publisher:
- New Philanthropy Capital
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Place of publication:
- London
This resource pulls together over 50 indicators of need for 382 local authorities and government districts in the UK. The databank shares official statistics, such as those on multiple deprivation, age, health, ethnicity, and Covid-19. It also provides data on local charity density and charity demand data, from organisations such as Turn2us, Buttle UK, and British Gas Energy Trust. All of this data allows to better understand what needs are increasing and decreasing in communities across the country and what charities are experiencing on the ground. (Edited publisher abstract)
Learning disability: care and support of people growing older: (QS187)
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 30
- Place of publication:
- London
Quality standard covering identifying, assessing and regularly reviewing the care and support needs of people with a learning disability as they grow older. It focuses on the specific health and social care needs associated with an individual's learning disability. It contains five quality statements which describe what high-quality care looks the areas of: person-centred needs assessment, named lead practitioners, future planning and review, annual health checks and hospital admission. The standard provides information on the rationale for each quality statement, quality measures that can be used to monitor improvement and what the statement should mean for different audiences, including service providers, commissioners and people growing older with a learning disability. (Edited publisher abstract)
Care and support of people growing older with learning disabilities
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline provides practice advice for the care and support for adults with learning disabilities as they grow older. It covers care and support in all settings and aims to support people to access the services they need as they get older. The recommendations cover support needs, assessing and managing health needs, planning for the future, and supporting access to services including health, social care, housing and end of life care. The recommendations advise health and social care workers to help organise regular health assessments for older people with learning disabilities and to giving people with learning disabilities clear and regular information to help people get the help they need and prevent late diagnosis of age-related conditions. It also advises local authorities to ensure there are opportunities for people growing older with learning disabilities to socialise and be active in their communities. (Edited publisher abstract)