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Time to drive personalisation
- Author:
- HOPE Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.2.09, 2009, p.30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A key finding from the evaluation of the individual budget pilots suggested that many older people and their carers did not want the additional burden that they associated with planning and managing their own support. This article provides some tips to help older people, their carers and their families experience the benefits of personalisation. These include: taking a person-centred approach; remaining flexible; and providing choice for older people on managing the money they are given through personalisation.
Confidence in caring: a framework for best practice
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In a rapidly changing world it is vital that nursing continues to command the confidence and trust of patients. For the growing numbers of older people admitted to our busy hospital wards this is determined by the whole care experience; yet we constantly hear of deficiencies in caring. Confidence in caring developed in response to this. It emerged from a national project with patients, relatives and staff in several hospitals across the country; it aimed to help nurses meet the many challenges of caring today and put the values and ideals on which nursing is founded, into practice. Confidence in caring offers a shared language and shared understanding of what caring means for older people and describes what caring looks like so that it can be observed, improved and rewarded.
Person centred thinking with older people: practicalities and possibilities
- Authors:
- BOWERS Helen, et al
- Publisher:
- HSA Press
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 95p.
- Place of publication:
- Stockport
This book is compiled specifically for people who work with older people. Older people want real choices and the responsibility to choose the best possible lifestyle for them with the support they need. This book of person centred thinking tools gives you an opportunity to start supporting older people to lead the lives they want by offering practical ways to gather information and to start to set actions that make a real difference. Sections covered include: Appreciations, Relationships, Sorting important to/for, Communication, Histories, Wishing, Good days and bad days and Working/not working.
Being old is different: person-centred care for old people
- Author:
- PORTNER Marlis
- Publisher:
- PCCS Books
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 96p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Ross-on-Wye
This publication is not about specific nursing or therapy methods but about fundamental principles, which are vital in many areas of care. The term ‘carer’, therefore, is used here for all those who, professionally or voluntarily, work with older people, and the term ‘care’ embraces nursing as well as family, therapeutic and supportive activities. Being Old is Different describes some basic person-centred principles and their implementation in everyday care for the elderly. Marlis Pörtner, who describes herself as an old person, aims to demonstrate why the person-centred approach is particularly useful in this field; how it can be transferred into practice; how it helps to improve the life quality of older people and, at the same time, make work more satisfying for carers.
Person centred thinking with older people
- Authors:
- SANDERSON Helen, et al, (comps.)
- Publisher:
- Helen Sanderson Associates
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- Stockport
Older people want real choices and the responsibility to choose the best possible lifestyle for them with the support they need. This little book of person centred thinking tools gives you an opportunity to start supporting older people to lead the lives they want by offering practical ways to gather information and to start to set actions that make a real difference.
Person-centred approaches and older families
- Authors:
- MAGRILL Dalia, SANDERSON Helen, SHORT Alison
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet highlights good practice in using person-centred approaches with older families. It is aimed at person-centred planning coordinators and facilitators, but is a useful resource for anyone working with older families. The booklet particularly helps to unpick some of the key issues that might impact on the way that person-centred planning approaches are used with older families.
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.
Making home care for older people more flexible and person-centred: factors which promote this
- Authors:
- PATMORE Charles, McNULTY Alison
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report examines the factors which make possible a flexible, person-centred approach to providing home care for older people in light of the Department of Health's Green Paper on Adult Social Care.
Caring for the whole person: home care for older people which promotes well-being and choice
- Authors:
- PATMORE Charles, McNULTY Alison
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 93p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report presents the final account from the three-part research project on flexible person-centred home care for older people, which was funded through the Department of Health Research Programme at the Social Policy Research Unit at York University, from 2001 till early 2005.
Does person-centred care exist
- Author:
- PACKER Tracy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 8(3), May 2000, pp.19-21.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
In the first of a series of articles analysing the obstacles standing in the way of person-centred care, the author asks whether it is an unworkable notion.