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Fit for frailty: part 2: developing, commissioning and managing services for people living with frailty in community settings
- Authors:
- BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY, ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS
- Publisher:
- British Geriatrics Society
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 35
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides advice and guidance on the development, commissioning and management of services for people living with frailty in community settings. The first section introduces the concept of frailty and sets out the rationale for developing frailty services. The second section explores the essential characteristics of a good service. The third section considers the issue of performance and outcome measures for frailty services. The appendix to the report includes eight case studies of services which are operating in different parts of the UK. The audience for this guidance comprises GPs, geriatricians, health service managers, social service managers and commissioners of services. It is a companion report to an earlier BGS publication, Fit for Frailty Part 1 which provided advice and guidance on the care of older people living with frailty in community and outpatient settings. (Edited publisher abstract)
Ambitions for change: improving healthcare in care homes
- Author:
- BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- British Geriatrics Society
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 14
- Place of publication:
- London
This report describes the care home sector across the UK as it currently stands and recent initiatives taken to improve healthcare for care home residents, including specific initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic. It describes how health and wellbeing has traditionally been supported in care homes and sets out what good healthcare provision in a care home environment should look like. The report sets out a few of the more common conditions which staff are required to support their residents to manage on a daily basis, including: cognitive impairment and mental health; end of life care in care homes; falls; nutrition and hydration; continence care and assessment; medicine optimisation. The report then details what good care in care homes looks like and what all older people living in a care home should expect from the staff looking after them, focusing on: person-centred care for care home residents; development of a skilled care home clinical workforce; providing hospital-style care in care homes; joined-up approach to data collection and sharing. The report makes 11 recommendations for local and national Governments and decision-makers to consider, including ensuring the NHS across the UK should work with care homes to roll out and fund programmes to enable enhanced healthcare services to be provided in all care homes. (Edited publisher abstract)