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Bothered by bed blocking
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.4.93, 1993, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Briefly discusses the problems associated with discharge of elderly people into the community and mentions the research work by NISW into hospital discharge.
From hospital to the community: a report examining discharge procedures from hospital and community provision for elderly people
- Author:
- BAGLEY G
- Publisher:
- Birmingham. Social Services Department/North Birmingham Health Authority
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 36p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
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The NHS and Community Care Act 1990: is it a success for elderly people?
- Authors:
- AJAYI Victoria, MISKELLY Frank G., WALTON Ivan G.
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 18.2.95, 1995, p.439.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Very brief notes on statistical analysis in Hammersmith and Fulham into the effect of the NHS and Community Care Act on the discharge of older people from hospitals. Findings show that changes implemented on 1st April 1993 enabled patients to be discharged from home earlier and that they were more likely to be discharged home than elsewhere.
Capturing the concealed: Interprofessional practice and older patients' participation in decision-making about discharge after acute hospitalization
- Authors:
- HUBY Guro, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 21(1), January 2007, pp.55-67.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The aim of this paper is to investigate ways in which the dynamics of interprofessional work shaped older patients' “participation” in decision-making about discharge from acute hospital care in a medical directorate of a District General Hospital in Scotland. Twenty-two purposively selected older patients and their key professional hospital carers in three different ward environments participated in the study. An ethnographic approach was adopted, involving semi-structured interviews with patients and staff combined with rigorous observation of the practical context for staff and patient interactions during the discharge planning process over a 5-month period. Patients' and staff's understanding of “decision-making” and their priorities for discharge were different, but patients' perspectives fragmented and became invisible. Care routines, which centred around assessments and the decisions that flowed from these tended to exclude both staff and patients from active decision-making. Research and practice on patient involvement in discharge decision-making needs to focus on the organizational context, which shapes patients', unpaid carers' and staff's interactions and the dynamics by which some views are privileged and others excluded. Procedurally driven care routines and their impact on patients', carers' and staff's opportunity to actively engage in decision-making should be re-considered from an empowerment perspective.
Support from hospital to home
- Author:
- PATON Nic
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 16.11.04, 2004, pp.24-15.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Looks at how an outreach settlement scheme run by ward nurses at Julian Hospital, Norwich, is ensuring that leaving hospital is less traumatic for older people with mental health needs. Hospital can quickly become a secure haven from the world, and discharge daunting and frightening after the safe routine of a ward. A checklist for setting up an outreach settlement scheme is given.
When it's time to go home
- Author:
- SHEPHERD Eileen
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 23.8.01, 2001, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Sending a patient home from hospital without the right support can be costly in human and financial terms. Looks at the importance of proper discharge planning, particularly for older people.
Cutting it fine
- Authors:
- STEELE Val, WRIGHT Rowena
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 12.4.01, 2001, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on how by introducing therapy assistants for patients in need of rehabilitation, one trust has succeeded in dramatically reducing length of stay.
Getting started: early research findings on a jointly managed community-based rehabilitation service in Bristol
- Authors:
- THOMAS Drew, MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 8(6), December 2000, pp.41-44.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Outlines findings from research aimed at identifying the emerging issues around the formation of a jointly managed and staffed community rehabilitation service in Bristol.
Moving to a hostel: the perceptions of older people who move from hospital to hostel ('low level') care
- Authors:
- ATKINSON Anne, TILSE Cheryl, SCHLECHT Nilissa
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 53(1), March 2000, pp.9-13.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Reports on Australian research which aims to: explore the perceptions of older people regarding the process of transition from hospital and to hostel ('low level') care; examine their experiences of hostel living after transfer; and to develop, on the basis of these findings appropriate professional practice guidelines.
Bridging the gap: an evaluation of the joint-funded occupational therapy approach
- Author:
- NEWMAN D.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 50(6), 1987, pp.191-194.
- Publisher:
- Sage
A pilot project bridging the gap between discharge from hospital of elderly patients to resettling at home.