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EACH: clearing the channels of information for Europe
- Author:
- MEULENBERGS Leen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 5(5), September 1997, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The European Alzheimer Clearing House (EACH) aims to become an information exchange for good practice in all aspects of dementia care throughout Europe. Describes its current projects and priorities.
Specialist dementia units: a practice guide to staff
- Author:
- ARCHIBALD Carole
- Publisher:
- University of Stirling. Dementia Services Development Centre
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 57p.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
Many residential care and nursing homes are setting up specialist dementia units at present. This report looks at all the aspects of these units: design, staffing activities, and the role of carers, from both literature and practice. Several case examples are described.
The measure and discuss intervention: a procedure for client empowerment and quality control in residential care homes
- Author:
- GREEN Van V.M.C.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 37(6), December 1997, pp.817-822.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article presents an intervention that is used to empower clients in residential care homes in the Netherlands. The intervention comprises a standardised survey-feedback procedure in which residents' opinions on life and care in their particular home are gauged, discussed, and reported. The procedure is designed to influence individuals and processes in the institution. It results in a report containing residents' collective opinion and recommendations and a plan for action. This provides residents' committees and managers with a basis for policy making and quality control.
This time it's personal
- Author:
- HIRST Judy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.10.97, 1997, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
City financiers are getting the jitters about falling occupancy relates and plummeting profits in the private care home sector. Looks at how for the residents, it is their lives that are at stake.
Policy without technology: a barrier to improving nursing home care
- Authors:
- SCHNELLE John F., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 37(4), August 1997, pp.527-532.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Discusses how standards of care are written for nursing homes in the USA without a realistic assessment of whether there is an intervention protocol or resources to meet these standards. This situation produces unfair pressures on nursing home providers, who react with paper compliance strategies, and creates a barrier to implementing new interventions that do meet care standards once they are developed. This article explores this barrier and illustrates examples of interventions that have been attempted in nursing homes using a continuous quality improvement model.
Selecting nursing home residents for satisfaction surveys
- Authors:
- SIMMONS Sandra F., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 37(4), August 1997, pp.543-550.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Presents objective criteria to identify nursing home residents who are capable of accurately reporting the occurrence of daily care activities. These criteria can be used to select residents for interviews concerning the quality of their care and life in the nursing home.
Keyworkers re-examined: good practice, quality of care and empowerment in residential care of older people
- Author:
- BLAND Rosemary
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 27(4), August 1997, pp.585-603.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Drawing from the findings of a recent study, this article explores the contribution of the keyworker role to good practice and the empowerment of older people living in residential homes. It concludes that, because their understanding of the concept and practice is largely undeveloped, the role as currently interpreted is not consonant with good practice and tends rather to reinforce the power of staff.
Residential care for elderly people: an exploratory study in quality measurement
- Authors:
- SCHNEIDER Justine, MANN Anthony, NETTEN Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Research Review, 4, April 1997, pp.12-15.
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
Summarises the findings of a study to identify and test a number of possible measures of quality of care in residential homes. No definition of quality was adopted prior to the study, but the perspectives of residents, health and social care professionals, home staff, managers, and relatives were addressed. Goes on to put forward some policy implications drawn from the results of the survey.
Services for people who are elderly: addressing the balance; the multi-disciplinary assessment of elderly people and the delivery of high quality continuing care
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. NHS Health Advisory Service
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 197p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Review setting out to establish the current state of commissioning, purchasing and delivery of services for elderly people and to suggest ways of improving them. Includes chapters on: meeting the healthcare needs of older people; commissioning and purchasing services; providing services to older people; the concepts, problems and challenges that affect commissioners, purchasers and providers; a strategy for the future; and the way forward for purchasers, commissioners and providers. Includes checklists.
Achieving a better home life: establishing and maintaining quality in continuing care for older people
- Authors:
- AVEBURY Kine, et al
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 65p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report designed to stimulate debate on how the code of practice detailed in the CPA publication 'A better home life: a code of good practice for residential and nursing home care' can be embraced to meet the changing continuing care needs for older people into the 21st century. Aimed at all those involved in providing or purchasing care. Topics covered include the level of quality older people should be able to expect when they go into care; the role of inspection in relation to maintaining standards; the dilemmas facing SSDs in fulfilling their responsibilities as purchasers of care; the relationship between quality and costs; and the broader issue of how society should pay for the continuing care of older people.