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Interpersonal complexity: a cognitive component of person-centered care
- Author:
- MEDVENE Louis
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 46(2), April 2006, pp.220-226.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This study concerns one component of the ability to provide person-centered care: the cognitive skill of perceiving others in relatively complex terms. This study tested the effectiveness of a social motivation for increasing the number of psychological constructs used to describe an unfamiliar senior citizen. Forty-four certified nurse aide students participated. Students were mostly 30-year-old females (86%) with a high school education (72%). A quasi-experimental design was used. Early in training, participants completed the Role Category Questionnaire (RCQ), which measured their interpersonal cognitive complexity. On the basis of their RCQ scores, participants were matched and assigned to the experimental or control condition. Five weeks later, participants viewed a 15-min videotaped biography of an unfamiliar senior citizen - Mitch. Participants in both conditions were told they would be asked to describe Mitch as a person after watching the video. Only participants in the experimental condition were additionally asked to imagine that they would be having a personal conversation with him afterward. As hypothesized, participants in the experimental condition used more constructs to describe Mitch than did participants in the control condition. Participants' RCQ scores were significantly correlated with the complexity of their descriptions of Mitch. The findings suggest that new training materials should be created that include experienced certified nurse aides' modelling how biographical and personal information can be used in caregiving tasks to gain residents' cooperation.
Achieving person-centred care for older people: champions for older people project
- Author:
- NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. West Midlands
- Publisher:
- National Health Service. West Midlands
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- loose leaf
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
The aim of this project is to have a champion in all care environments where older people receive care. The champions, who are experienced nurses and allied health professionals, attend an intensive two-day workshop of master classes by expert speakers with a focus on addressing values, attitudes and dignity. The intention is to improve care and support for older people; reduce stays in hospital; build reassurance and confidence in the care provided for older people in hospitals and other care environments; provide a proactive workforce to care effectively for a rising ageing population; and reduce the number of complaints.
Best practice in dementia care - improving the health and wellbeing of older people with mental health needs
- Author:
- POOL Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 1(1), September 2006, pp.16-23.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
People with dementia are people with special needs who rely on organisations with special skills to enable them to experience good health and wellbeing. The Government has recognised this and has launched several initiatives setting out expectations of the standards of service that this client group should receive. Service providers acknowledge the need for these standards, but may be at a loss when planning how to develop a person-centred approach in their daily practice. This article sets out some key differences between a person-centred care service and a non-person-centred one. The summary can be used by managers as a tool for self-audit and organisational development.
Outcomes-focused services for older people
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, GLENDINNING Caroline, et al
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 134p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This project was commissioned by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), to form the basis of practice guidance published by SCIE to support the implementation of proposals in the health and care White Paper, Our Health, Our Care, Our Say. It helped to strengthen the evidence base on how to deliver outcomes-focused services for older people and carers. The project aimed to identify: the service outcomes that were valued by older people and their carers; the organisational and other factors that helped or hindered the delivery of desired outcomes; and examples of good practice in outcomes-focused, person-centred services for older people and their carers. Outcomes' are defined as the impact, or end-results, of services on a person's life; therefore outcomes-focused services are those that aim to achieve the priorities that service users themselves identify as important. The project had two stages. The first covered research on the outcomes valued by older people and their carers; and examples of outcomes-focused practices, including changes in ways of funding, organising or commissioning services, assessment or review arrangements, or the activities of service provider organisations. A postal survey was undertaken to find out how widely outcomes-focused approaches were being developed in services for older people and carers across England and Wales, and the range of different projects or approaches involved. The study then focused on six localities in more depth, examining what changes had been made to the organisation and delivery of services; and the impact of those changes, from the perspectives of service users and carers, managers and front-line staff. The project was supported by an Advisory Group of Service Users, that met at key stages during the project. The Outcomes Network established by SPRU also contributed advice throughout the project.
Working towards a 'new culture of activity provision in care homes - helping residents to 'live life'
- Authors:
- KNOCKER Sally, SILVER Sylvie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 1(1), September 2006, pp.34-42.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article explores a positive way of looking at activity provision in care home settings, focusing on individual planning and a whole-day approach rather than traditional structured group activities and entertainment. Practical examples and direct quotes from residents interviewed in care homes are offered by the authors who both have extensive experience of delivering activities in innovative ways in care homes. It is concluded that while shifts in attitudes and approaches are needed, it can and should be an achievable goal for all older people in care settings to live life whatever their frailty or level of dementia.
Promoting person-centred care at the front line
- Authors:
- INNES Anthea, MACPHERSON Suzi, MCCABE Louise
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 81p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Recent policy developments highlight the importance of a more 'person-centred' approach within community care services. Within this framework, however, little attention has been given to the role played by frontline workers in delivering on these policy imperatives. Understanding the roles and experiences of frontline workers is crucial in understanding how frontline care can be made more 'person-centred'. The authors have looked at the barriers to and opportunities for promoting person-centred care for older people, disabled people and people from minority ethnic groups.
DCM 8 in Cheshire
- Authors:
- EDWARDS Paul, BROTHERTON Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 14(2), March 2006, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The authors describe the introduction of Dementia Care Mapping to seven social care settings, four day centres and three respite units, which are managed by Cheshire County Council.
The senses framework: improving care for older people through a relationship-centred approach
- Authors:
- NOALN Mike, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Sheffield. School of Nursing and Midwifery
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 152p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
This report, focussing on improving the care of older people, is the second in an occasional series Getting Research into Practice. It draws mainly on the results of a longitudinal study commissioned by the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting referred to as AGEIN (Advancing Gerontological Education in Nursing) with particular emphasis on factors influencing students’ perceptions of work with older people. The authors describe the evolution of a framework for practice developed in close collaboration with older people themselves, family carers, practitioners and students. The use of this framework within a relationship-centred approach to care is outlined. The authors suggests that this can provide a better way of “enriching” the care older people receive, while also paying attention to the needs of their families and paid carers. Although most of the work focussed on the nursing role, is hoped that the result will also be relevant to a practitioners across the whole field of health and social care. The report is partly about how individual practitioners can provide the best possible care but it is also based on a whole-systems approach in which all agencies work closely together. It is argued that rather than the present focus on person-centred care, relationship-centred care provides a more appropriate value base for work with older people and their families.
Netborough: integrated service networks to meet the needs of older people and people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- MILLER Clive
- Publisher:
- Office for Public Management
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper examines how integrated service networks could be used to provide personalised, outcome-focused services. Using as an example the fictitious ‘Netborough’, the paper shows how local partnerships might set out to meet the challenge of improving services of older people and people with learning disabilities. It describes how networks are organised, the arrangements for care management and support brokerage, and the implications for commissioning, market management and governance. ‘Netborough’ is invented as a way of setting out and drawing together the strands of thinking and requirements in the green paper ‘Independence, Well-being and Choice’, and the white paper ‘Our health, our care, our say’, and is designed to stimulate discussion and debate amongst people working in or concerned with, service provision.
Developing assessment tools for planning community health and social care for older people: a literature review
- Authors:
- MCCORMACK B.G., et al
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 43p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This literature review identifies approaches used elsewhere to assessment of older peoples' health and social care. The review was conducted to aid the development of a single assessment tool covering key policy issues, and principles from best practice such as person-centred care. It examines the policies leading to the development of single assessment instruments; identifies factors that are influential on the development of such instruments, such as theories of needs assessment; and examines the findings of research conducted aimed at mapping the implementation process surrounding the single assessment process in the U.K.