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Bedding down the system
- Author:
- STEPHENSON Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 9.5.02, 2002, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Pressures to discharge patients too soon and a shortage of intermediate care beds are among the problems Sweden has faced. Looks at what the UK can learn.
Leaving hospital revisited: a follow-up study of a group of older people who were discharged from hospital in March 2004
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 54p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This new report on the experiences of older people after leaving hospital reveals that decisions that are made at the time of discharge from hospital can have long-term consequences. The report finds that very few people who go into residential care at this time return to their own homes, and that older people are less likely to need residential care if the right support and rehabilitation is offered to them on leaving hospital. The report from CSCI calls for a 'genuinely comprehensive preventative approach' to give more practical support and care to all older people, in order to maintain and enhance their quality of life and independence. The study on which the report is based stresses the importance to older people of being cared for by one carer they know really well, rather than a succession of strangers; of better contingency planning to avoid repeated yet avoidable hospital readmissions; of having a focus on rehabilitation rather than just administering care; and of supporting people to live their lives independently in their own homes, rather than always opting for residential care.
Swede inspiration
- Author:
- STEPHENSON Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 9.5.02, 2002, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
England is set to adopt the Swedish solution to bed-blocking by penalising local councils who cannot cater for elderly patients ready to leave hospital. Swedish health and social services professionals tell the author what they think of their country's answer to bed blocking.
Messages from the front line: joint health and social care rehabilitation
- Author:
- TRAPPES-LOMAX Tessa
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 7(4), August 1999, pp.33-37.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article reports key messages for policy makers, drawn from a workshop held for local health and social care staff with responsibilities for running or setting up short-term residential rehabilitation for elderly and disabled people. The aim was to learn from each other's experience and to provide a nuts-and-bolts framework for the development of local joint investment plans.
Inspection of social services department arrangements for the discharge of elderly people from hospital to residential or nursing home care in Sefton: January 1995
- Authors:
- NOVAK V., JAMES L
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate. North West In
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 65p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
NHS and Community Care Act 1990 and discharges from hospital to private residential and nursing homes
- Authors:
- LEWIS Peter A., DUNN Rebecca B., VETTER Norman J.
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 2.7.94, 1994, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Describes a study which compares the proportions of patients discharged to private residential and nursing homes or elsewhere from a department of geriatric medicine in Bath, Avon before and after the implementation of the NHS and community care act in April 1993. Also gives the lengths of time patients had spent in hospital before their discharge.
Inspection of social services department arrangements for the discharge of elderly people from hospital to residential or nursing home care: Hertfordshire; 14 - 25 March 1994
- Authors:
- GOLDSMITH Linda, STRETTLE Terry, HORRIDGE Doreen
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate. London West I
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The homefinder service
- Authors:
- MISKELLY F., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health Trends, 24(1), 1992, pp.25-26.
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
Describes the establishment of a Homefinder service for elderly patients at Charing Cross Hospital in 1985 and discusses its effect in reducing acute medical bed occupancy by long stay patients, over a period of five years.
Residential care for elderly people: characteristics of patients admitted to residential and nursing home care from hospital
- Author:
- POWER William E.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 19(1), February 1989, pp.39-51.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
A study of admissions showed breakdown in caregiver arrangements to be a major reason for entry into care.
Person-centred acute hospital care for older people transitioning to residential aged care- whose needs are being met?
- Authors:
- KENDALL Sacha, REID Edward
- Journal article citation:
- Ethics and Social Welfare, 11(4), 2017, pp.353-364.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
The acute health care system in Australia, as in the global north, has been increasingly dominated by neoliberal market principles prioritising efficiency and cost reduction. This has occurred in conjunction with a shift towards ‘personalised care’ models in health and social services. Personalised care models are intended to support the provision of holistic health care and consumer choice. Yet, the bureaucratic context of acute health care produces constrained applications of person-centred care that can undermine patient participation. Personalised care models have been criticised for diminishing the choices available to socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. There has been scant attention to these equity issues and ethical implications of the model for older people transferring from acute hospital settings to residential aged care. This is significant, as this major life event is associated with social- and identity-related losses; can produce poor health outcomes; and is affecting an increasing population of older people. The aim of this paper is to address this gap in the debate through a critical literature review applying Tronto’s critical ethics of care. The authors highlight the current Australian context for this patient group and the transferability of palliative care models as an example for change in practice and resource allocation. (Edited publisher abstract)