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Health difficulties: how to cope with changing needs
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The paper explains what help is available for older people from the local Council and the NHS if anyone develops difficulties due to ill-health or disability. This includes support inside and outside the home and financial assistance.
What quality healthcare means to older people: exploring and meeting their needs
- Author:
- POTTER Charlotte
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 15.12.09, 2009, pp.14-18.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Face to face interviews were conducted with 20 vulnerable older adults to find out what they valued in the NHS and whether their aspirations were being met. Nine aspirations were identified: face to face flexible appointments; to retain control in their own home; respect for property and belongings; company and the opportunity to be listened to; proactive healthcare and support; choice and control over daily routines; a connected relationship between staff and patients; maintenance of privacy in hospital; and joined-up care. The findings highlighted the importance older people attached to their needs being met rather than about how meets them.
Are care homes the community hospitals of the future?
- Author:
- BOWMAN Clive
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 3(4), July 2009, pp.375-379.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The answer to the headline question ‘Are care homes the community hospitals of the future?’ is ‘yes’. In this paper, based on a presentation made at this year's Laing and Buisson Long-Term Care Conference, the author's support for this vision of the future is based on Bupa's international experience and observations of the international provision of aged care.
Psychological therapies, older people and human rights
- Author:
- HILTON Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 33(5), May 2009, pp.184-186.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
Additional funding has recently been made available by the government for the treatment of anxiety and depression. However, this is targeted towards people of working age, to reduce expenditure on incapacity benefit. That older people with the same mental illnesses do not receive equitable access to psychological therapies contradicts other recent government recommendations. Economic data appears to hugely influence provision of services for this group of users, but is this appropriate and humane? The Human Rights Act 1998 (Chapter 42) has been largely ignored in the provision of mental health services for older people, and the centrality of this legislation needs further consideration.
Telecare outcomes and mainstreaming: summary of responses by social care authorities to CSCI performance assessment 2008
- Author:
- DH CARE NETWORKS. Telecare Learning and Improvement Network
- Publisher:
- DH Care Networks. Telecare Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
It is only in the last 2-3 years that local authorities and primary care trusts in England have started to examine the possibilities of supporting people with long term conditions at home using remote monitoring support. Since the time of data collection (April/May 2008), a number of other Local Authority/Primary Care Trust partnerships have been developing telehealth programmes. These have not been included in this report but can be identified through updates in the telecare newsletters Some of the responses indicate that the service had not commenced at the time of the data collection but were planned for 2008 and beyond.
Telecare outcomes and mainstreaming: summary of responses from social care authorities to CSCI performance assessment 2008
- Author:
- DH CARE NETWORKS. Telecare Learning and Improvement Network
- Publisher:
- DH Care Networks. Telecare Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Since the time of data collection (April/May 2008), a number of other Local Authority/Primary Care Trust partnerships have been developing telehealth programmes. These have not been included in this report but can be identified through updates in the telecare newsletters Some of the responses indicate that the service had not commenced at the time of the data collection but were planned for 2008 and beyond. The responses generally relate to small pilots (between 5 and 50 users) at the time of data collection apart from Kent (over 200). The main disease areas covered include heart failure, COPD and diabetes. There are case study and local evaluation reports of positive benefits for individual users (increased re-assurance and improved quality of life) and some indications from professional judgment that hospital admissions may have been prevented.
Waiting for change: how the NHS is responding to the needs of older people
- Authors:
- AGE CONCERN, HELP THE AGED
- Publisher:
- Age Concern; Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report by Age UK (formerly Age Concern) describes how the NHS, politicians and health professionals are failing to prioritise issues which older patients most value. The report focuses on the needs of the over 80s, and concluded that this group have a clear idea of what they want from health services, but all too often this is not delivered. Current NHS targets and performance indicators fail to adequately address the issues that matter most to older people. Findings indicate that face to face and flexible appointments with health professionals they know and trust and better coordination of care are among those things older people want from community-based healthcare. The study also highlighted the importance placed on social aspects of healthcare, particularly for those older people who are isolated in their own homes. The study also identified privacy, good relationships with staff and retaining choice and control over daily routines to be vital for positive patient experience, within hospital settings. The report stresses how these needs are not always met. Recent Government figures show that 47 percent of inpatients said that they were not, or only partially, involved as much as they wanted to be in decisions about their care and treatment in hospital.
The development of care services for older people in prison
- Author:
- WARE Stuart
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 3(4), July 2009, pp.364-374.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Prisons are ‘closed’ institutions and, as such, access by the general public is controlled and restricted. Historically, the separate care needs of older people have not been recognised and they have been treated as part of the whole prison population. Until recently, the Prison Service in the UK could claim Crown immunity from health and social care legislation that would apply to the general population. This has had to change as the over 60s have become the fastest-growing age group in the prison population. EU treaty obligations and High Court actions on human rights issues have led the UK Government to remove prison immunity. An example of this change may be found in the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 that now applies to prisons. However, despite this dramatic rise in the older prisoner population and new legislation, there is currently no mandatory requirement or national strategy for the care of older prisoners, although this is under consideration. With the transfer of prison healthcare from the Prison Service to the NHS and primary care trusts in 2006, a range of actions have been put in place to identify and fill gaps in current care services, including the lack of social care. This paper attempts to examine these recent developments.