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Caring in a crisis: finding and paying for residential and nursing home care
- Author:
- LEWYCKA Marina
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 96p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed at people with an older relative or friend considering going into residential care. Guides the reader through the emotional crisis and provides straightforward and practical advice on the types of care available, finding the right home, asking the right questions, getting help with the fees, and staying involved.
A brighter future?: a joint report on long-stay care for people with dementia in Scotland
- Author:
- KILLEEN Jan
- Publisher:
- Scottish Action on Dementia
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 50p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Aims to provide a critique of developments and clarify the implications for people with dementia whose care needs cannot be met adequately in their own home.
A cure for chaos
- Author:
- SPINKS Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 12.10.94, 1994, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Following recent revelations of abuse in residential homes, argues for an end to the divide between nursing and residential homes.
Bedroom abuse: the hidden work in a nursing home
- Author:
- LEE-TREWEEK Geraldine
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 4(2), June 1994, pp.2-4.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Reports on research into the work of auxiliaries in a nursing home. Shows that non-physical abuse and mistreatment of patients was routinised and difficult to detect. Argues that research on institutional abuse needs to uncover the hidden nature of care tasks and the meanings of such work to staff, to understand abuse more fully.
An inspector calls
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.9.94, 1994, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks whether deregulation in residential and nursing homes will increase quality of care; and discusses the value of a self-assessment manual for home owners, managers, home care staff, clients and relatives which has been produced by inspectors in North Tyneside.
Watching brief
- Author:
- CASSIDY Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 7.9.94, 1994, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Following an RCN survey of conditions governing the inspection of nursing homes, the college is calling for a national audit.
Taking care
- Author:
- CARRINGTON Lucie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.7.94, 1994, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Last month a report from the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting revealed that cases of physical and verbal abuse in nursing homes make up more than one in four cases heard by the council's professional conduct committee. Looks at the need for more social services input and talks to local authorities who have instigated joint inspections.
NHS and Community Care Act 1990 and discharges from hospital to private residential and nursing homes
- Authors:
- LEWIS Peter A., DUNN Rebecca B., VETTER Norman J.
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 2.7.94, 1994, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Describes a study which compares the proportions of patients discharged to private residential and nursing homes or elsewhere from a department of geriatric medicine in Bath, Avon before and after the implementation of the NHS and community care act in April 1993. Also gives the lengths of time patients had spent in hospital before their discharge.
On being the relative of someone in a home
- Author:
- WHITE Dorothy
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 3(2), May 1994, pp.6-13.
Describes the emotions that can occur when someone cared for can no longer be looked after at home, and suggests practical ways in which staff in residential or nursing homes can assist in the process.
Identity problems
- Author:
- KING Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.2.94, 1994, p.29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Following the work of the Wagner committee and the Wagner Development Group a new body, the Residential Forum is soon to be launched. The forum is aimed at providing a positive voice for the residential care sector, and NISW who has largely led the forum's establishment stresses that it should be an independent voice. Reports on how the forum has evolved and describes its purpose.