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Promoting positive mental wellbeing for older people
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publishers:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
A quick guide to help managers of care homes to identify older people’s individual needs and to improve their mental wellbeing by offering personalised support. The guide covers: valuing personal identity, providing a choice of meaningful activity, helping people to improve their health and mental wellbeing, and providing access to healthcare. The guide is based on NICE’s quality standard on mental wellbeing of older people in care homes. (Edited publisher abstract)
Working together to support the mental wellbeing of older people in care homes: report of a roundtable discussion at the Royal Hospital Chelsea: putting into practice the NICE quality standard on mental wellbeing of older people in care homes (QS50)
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
This report documents the proceedings of a roundtable organised by the NICE Collaborating Centre for Social Care (NCCSC) to discuss how the NICE quality standard can help to improve the lives of older people in care homes and to encourage collaborative working with care homes. It accompanies the NICE quality standard and complements the NICE guideline on mental wellbeing of older people in care homes. The report includes examples of what people are already doing to implement the quality standard and highlights areas for further action and improvement. The report provides a template for other, similar discussions. Throughout the report (and summarised at the end) are hints and tips about how to arranging a roundtable event using the quality standard as a framework to help improve local practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social care for older people with multiple long-term conditions: QS132
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Place of publication:
- London
Quality standard which covers the planning and delivery of coordinated, person-centred social care and support for older people with multiple long-term conditions. This includes care for people living in their own homes, in specialist settings or in care homes. The standard consists of five quality statements which cover the assessment of social care needs, the coordination of care through named care coordinators, planning and reviewing health and social care plans, the integration of health and social care and the delivery care. For each quality statement the standard provides details of the rationale, quality measures that can be used to assess improvement, and equality and diversity considerations. It also outlines what each quality statement means in practice for service providers, social care practitioners, commissioners, home care service users and carers. The standard is expected to contribute to improvements in the following outcomes: social care and health-related quality of life, involvement in decision-making, safety of people using services, hospital and residential care admissions, older people being supported to live where they wish, and service user and carer satisfaction. (Edited publisher abstract)
Making progress on personal and joined up support: report of a roundtable discussion. Implementing the NICE guideline on older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions (NG22)
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 8
- Place of publication:
- London
This report summarises discussions from a roundtable event attended by older people and carer representatives, practitioners, providers and commissioners to identify how the NICE guideline on supporting older people with multiple long-term conditions and their carers could best be used and implemented. It also sets out practical examples, actions and ideas to help improve local practice. Small groups discussed how the guideline can help achieve three priorities that the Guideline Committee identified as most important for potential impact and the likely significant challenges. These were: empowering older people and carers; empowering health and social care practitioners; and integration of different care and support options to enable person-centred care. Suggested actions and practice examples in each of the three priority areas. (Edited publisher abstract)
Working together to achieve person-centred home care: report of a roundtable discussion in Manchester
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 18
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on the results of a roundtable event to discuss how the NICE guideline 'Home care: delivering personal care and practical support to older people living in their own homes' can help to improve the experiences and outcomes of people who use home care services. The event was organisation by the NICE Collaborating Centre for Social Care and attended by 15 participants, including people who used home care, carers, providers, and commissioners. Areas discussed included the guidelines that would be the easiest or most important to implement, and what might help and what would get in the way of them implementing the guideline. The top three themes identified were: Recruiting, training and supporting home are workers; Ensuring care is person centred; and joint working between health and social care. The report also includes advice on holding a local roundtable event. (Edited publisher abstract)
Home care: delivering personal care and practical support to older people living in their own homes: NG21
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
Practice guideline providing good practice advice on the planning and delivery of person-centred home care and domiciliary care for older people. The guideline aims to promote older people's independence and to ensure safe and consistently high quality home care services. The guideline was developed by a guideline development group following a detailed review of the evidence on home care. The recommendations cover: ensuring care is person centred; providing information about care and support options; planning and reviewing home care and support; delivering home care, including advice on the length of home care visits; joint working between health and social care; ensuring safety and safeguarding people using home care services; and recruiting, training and supporting home care workers. The guideline also highlights the importance of prioritising continuity of care by ensuring the person has the same home care worker or workers so that they can become familiar and build a relationship. Recommendations for future research are provided. The guideline is for health and social care practitioners, home care providers, home care managers, home care workers, commissioners of home care in local authorities and CCGs and people using or planning to use home care services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Learning disability: care and support of people growing older: (QS187)
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 30
- Place of publication:
- London
Quality standard covering identifying, assessing and regularly reviewing the care and support needs of people with a learning disability as they grow older. It focuses on the specific health and social care needs associated with an individual's learning disability. It contains five quality statements which describe what high-quality care looks the areas of: person-centred needs assessment, named lead practitioners, future planning and review, annual health checks and hospital admission. The standard provides information on the rationale for each quality statement, quality measures that can be used to monitor improvement and what the statement should mean for different audiences, including service providers, commissioners and people growing older with a learning disability. (Edited publisher abstract)
Care and support of people growing older with learning disabilities
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline provides practice advice for the care and support for adults with learning disabilities as they grow older. It covers care and support in all settings and aims to support people to access the services they need as they get older. The recommendations cover support needs, assessing and managing health needs, planning for the future, and supporting access to services including health, social care, housing and end of life care. The recommendations advise health and social care workers to help organise regular health assessments for older people with learning disabilities and to giving people with learning disabilities clear and regular information to help people get the help they need and prevent late diagnosis of age-related conditions. It also advises local authorities to ensure there are opportunities for people growing older with learning disabilities to socialise and be active in their communities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings for adults with social care needs: NG27
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
Guideline providing good practice advice on transfer from hospital settings and community or care homes for adults with social care needs. The guideline aims to improve people's experience of admission to, and discharge from, hospital by better coordination of health and social care services. It provides recommendations on the overarching principles of person-centred care, communication and information sharing. Recommendations also cover: before admission to hospital, admission to hospital, during hospital stay, discharge from hospital, supporting the infrastructure and training and development. Specific recommendations highlight: the importance of care planning before admission to hospital; using a hospital-based multi-disciplinary team to support admission to hospital; regularly reviewing and updating the person’s progress towards discharge during their hospital stay; the role of the discharge coordinator in planning discharge from hospital; ensuring that local community health, social care and voluntary sector services are available to support people when they are discharged from hospital; and training and development for people involved in the hospital discharge process. The guidelines are especially relevant for commissioners of hospital, care home and home care services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions: NG22
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
Practice guideline providing good practice advice on planning and delivering social care and support for older people who have multiple long-term conditions. The guideline promotes an integrated and person-centred approach to delivering effective health and social care services. Recommendations cover: identifying and assessing social care needs’ care planning, including the role of the named care coordinator; supporting carers; integrating health and social care planning; delivering care; preventing social isolation; and training health and social care practitioners. The recommendations are relevant to all older people with social care needs and multiple long term conditions, including those living in their own homes, in specialist settings or in a care home. The guideline has been developed by a Guideline Committee following a detailed review of the evidence. It is aimed at health and social care practitioners; providers of care and support in health and social care services; and older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions and their carers. (Edited publisher abstract)