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The circumscribed sometimes-advocacy of the case manager and the care provider
- Author:
- KANE Rosalie A.
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 28(1), Spring 2004, pp.70-74.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
Looks at case managers and their role as advocates in the USA.
Halfway home
- Author:
- ZAATAR Ali
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 31.1.02, 2002, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Short-term intermediate care in nursing homes can prove popular with patients, despite initial doubts about stability. Reports on a pilot scheme.
Inspection of social services department arrangements for the discharge of older people from hospital to residential or nursing home care: Isle of Wight; December 1994 - January 1995
- Authors:
- OWENS Christine, HORNE David, LANCE John
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate. South and Wes
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Predictors of nursing home admission: a social work perspective
- Author:
- LIM Eva S.
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 62(1), March 2009, pp.90-98.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Institutionalisation of geriatric patients is a growing trend in ageing societies, such as Singapore. Earlier studies focused on the sociodemographic profile and attributes of nursing home residents and applications, but neglected to address the predictors of nursing home admission from a social work perspective. The present retrospective study identifies independent risk factors that predispose a patient to a nursing home discharge from a general rehabilitation ward in a community hospital in Singapore, with a multidisciplinary emphasis on clinical intervention. Factor analysis results reinforced findings that functional impairment and dementia are consistent predictors of nursing home admission. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that positive predictors of nursing home admission include older age, length of hospital stay, low socioeconomic status, dementia, and functional disability. Social work interventions include early referrals to the medical social worker, so that options for social and family support can be explored prior to deciding to place patients in a nursing home. Other interventions include suitable family therapy and counselling for patients and their families.
Homeward bound
- Author:
- WOODCOCK Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 23.8.01, 2001, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains how a step-down scheme helped one depressed patient move from long-term care in a hospital to a nursing home and then back to his own house in only six weeks.
The care homes catastrophe
- Author:
- BUNCE Christina
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 2.8.01, 2001, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that nursing homes are closing at a rate of more than 15 a week which means that hospitals are full of older people with nowhere to go and scores of nurses are being lost to the profession.
Hospital discharge into nursing home care: psychological reactions and contributing factors
- Authors:
- ESPEJO A., GOUDIE F., TURPIN G.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 3(1), February 1999, pp.69-78.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Two groups of older people were investigated within a hospital setting, a 'care' group to be discharged into nursing home care and a 'home' group discharged into their own home to find out how they reacted to the differing discharge situations.
Inspection of social services department arrangements for the discharge of elderly people from hospital to residential or nursing home care in Sefton: January 1995
- Authors:
- NOVAK V., JAMES L
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate. North West In
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 65p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
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.
Inspection of SSD arrangements for the discharge of older people from hospital to residential or nursing home care: Cumbria; 4-15 July 1994
- Authors:
- FRASER John, MARTIN Margaret, HODGKISS Stanley
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate. North East In
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- Gateshead