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Information about residential care: the underlying issues
- Author:
- STEELE Jane
- Publisher:
- Policy Studies Institute
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 28p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the nature of the information which is needed when people make the transition to or from residential care and at the role of information in Social Services Departments, information needs of clients in general and of those.
Choosing a home
- Author:
- SHAW B.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.1.88, 1988, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Offers a personal view of the factors social workers should be able to advise clients on when discussing potential private homes.
An information design audit of information about residential care
- Author:
- LEWIS David
- Publisher:
- Policy Studies Institute
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 42p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports the results of an information design audit. The report forms part of a wider project exploring the nature of the information which is needed when people make the transition to residential care.
Consumer conundrums
- Author:
- LAMONT L.
- Journal article citation:
- Residential and Day Care Weekly, 6.5.88, 1988, pp.12-13.
Choosing a private old people's home for a relative.
How 'they' decide: exploring professional decision-making
- Authors:
- McKEGANEY Neil, MacPHERSON Isobel, HUNTER David J.
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 6(1), 1988, pp.15-19.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Considers advantages and disadvantages of employing observational and interviewing techniques - illustrated by a study of the assessment of elderly people for admission to residential care.
Unfinished care in residential aged care facilities: an integrative review
- Authors:
- LUDLOW Kristiana, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 61(3), 2021, pp.e61-e74.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Background and Objectives: When workload demands are greater than available time and resources, staff members must prioritize care by degree of importance and urgency. Care tasks assigned a lower priority may be missed, rationed, or delayed; collectively referred to as “unfinished care.” Residential aged care facilities (RACFs) are susceptible to unfinished care due to consumers’ complex needs, workforce composition, and constraints placed on resource availability. The objectives of this integrative review were to investigate the current state of knowledge of unfinished care in RACFs and to identify knowledge gaps. Research Design and Methods: We conducted a search of academic databases and included English-language, peer-reviewed, empirical journal articles that discussed unfinished care in RACFs. Data were synthesized using mind mapping techniques and frequency counts, resulting in two categorization frameworks. Results: We identified 17 core studies and 27 informing studies (n = 44). Across core studies, 32 types of unfinished care were organized under five categories: personal care, mobility, person-centeredness, medical and health care, and general care processes. We classified 50 factors associated with unfinished care under seven categories: staff member characteristics, staff member well-being, resident characteristics, interactions, resources, the work environment, and delivery of care activities. Discussion and Implications: This review signifies that unfinished care in RACFs is a diverse concept in terms of types of unfinished care, associated factors, and terminology. Our findings suggest that policymakers and providers could reduce unfinished care by focusing on modifiable factors such as staffing levels. Four key knowledge gaps were identified to direct future research. (Edited publisher abstract)
Care workers’ ambivalence towards family care partners: informal decision-making processes when older people consider relocation to a residential home
- Author:
- SODERBERG Maria
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Care and Caring, 4(4), 2020, pp.513-530.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
The aim of this article is to reveal how care workers in the home-help service interpret the influence of family care partners when older people’s relocation to a residential home is considered. Based on interviews with 33 care workers, this article investigates how they use their discretion. The analysis shows that the care workers express ambivalence towards family care workers and that they informally influence decision-making processes despite prevailing care management systems. The conclusion drawn are that welfare ideas in transformation and diffuse areas of responsibility may not benefit either care workers, family care partners or a care receiver’s self-determination. (Edited publisher abstract)
Rights in roles: resource pack: managing risk positively
- Author:
- BRAP
- Publisher:
- Brap
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 30
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
This resource pack aims to support care staff and managers working in residential elderly care to adopt a positive approach to risk that focuses on promoting the human rights of residents in a balanced and fair way and enabling residents – as far as possible – to make their own decisions about what they can and cannot do. The resource is based on two fundamental principles: first, that the best relationships between people who live and work in residential care happen when there is a shared understanding of what acceptable levels of risk look like in particular situations; and second, that the best care for residents happens when the main role of risk management is to enable residents to enjoy their human rights and live their lives in a way that they value, as opposed to avoiding risk to defend the home from potential blame or reputational loss. The resource pack contains three toolkits: toolkit 1 - front line staff, considering why thinking about risk positively can protect the rights of older people and what positive risk enablement means and how to do it; toolkit 2 - leaders and managers, examining their role in creating a positive attitude to risk within their home; and toolkit 3 - balancing risks and decision making, explaining how to be creative about managing the outcome of risk assessment and better support the rights of residents. (Edited publisher abstract)
How the care managers handle the process when older people consider relocation to a residential home
- Authors:
- SODERBERG Maria, STAHL Agneta, EMILSSON Ulla Melin
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 45(8), 2015, pp.2423-2440.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The aim of this article is to reveal how care managers handle the process when older people consider relocation to a residential home in a Swedish context. The article is based on vignette-based interviews with seven care managers. The main findings in the article are that the care managers assist older people in their decisions by turning ageing in place and relocation, respectively, into seemingly natural choices. In both approaches, they use warrants related partly to ‘the best for older people’, partly to ‘the common good of economizing’. The conclusions drawn are that the care managers, by applying risk management and extensive alliance strategies, are not really able to question their own work situation and that they perform their work in a context of different parties restraining themselves. The implications for social work policy and practice are that the approach referring to older people's self-determination while actually dealing in risk assessment must be thoroughly reconsidered. Other practical implications are that the idea of the purchaser/provider model must be clarified, beyond the assessment of resources. (Publisher abstract)
Making choices: meeting the current and future accommodation needs of older people: proposed criteria for change: consultation document
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Health and Social Care Board
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Health and Social Care Board
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 72
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
The review of health and social care, ‘Transforming your care’ (2011) consulted on health and social care in Northern Ireland. One aim was to make home the hub of care for older people, with a recommendation to reduce the number of statutory residential care homes. This consultation document is the first in a two-stage consultation process, and outlines four criteria to be used as the basis for assessing the future role and function of statutory residential care for older people. The criteria are designed to be used by Trusts to assist decision making about the role of statutory provision in the context of planning suitable services for older people in the future. The proposed criteria are: availability and accessibility of alternative services; quality of care; care trends; and best use of public money. The consultation period runs from 29 November 2013 to 7 March 2014; but no final decisions on any individual home have been made and will not be made until both stages of consultation have been completed. (Edited publisher abstract)