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Speech is silver...but silence gets the wooden spoon
- Author:
- PAYNE C.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 29.6.87, 1987, p.23.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Stresses the danger of overlooking the needs of the quiet resident.
Helping elderly tenants of Housing Associations to stay in their own homes
- Authors:
- CLARK Heather, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Applied Community Studies, 1(1), 1992, pp.23-28.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Reports on a survey carried out by two Housing Associations in Liverpool into the needs of their elderly tenants.
How to assist residents with sight loss in your home
- Author:
- CATTAN Mima
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing and Residential Care, 13(2), February 2011, pp.91-93.
- Publisher:
- MA Healthcare Ltd.
- Place of publication:
- London
In-depth interviews with 24 older people aged 72-102 living in care homes and sheltered housing were conducted to investigate their specific needs. Reduced mobility and difficulties in carrying out every day activities were highlighted. Drawing on the findings, the author looks at how care homes can help residents with sight loss.
The hidden needs of long-term hostel residents
- Author:
- GORTON Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 10(3), December 2007, pp.29-34.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper presents recent data collected by local authorities on their older homeless population, explore the nature of the needs of this population and put some challenging questions to the homeless sector and statutory services about how this section of the population has been marginalised in the past and continues to be neglected. It will suggest that the only way to meet the needs of this population is improved partnership working between homelessness, health, social services and older people's housing.
Re-conceptualising the status of residents in a care home: older people wanting to ‘live with care’
- Authors:
- COOK Glenda, THOMPSON Juliana, REED Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 35(8), 2015, pp.1587-1613.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The construction of a meaningful life depends upon satisfying ‘fundamental human needs’. These are broadly categorised as: physical, social and self-actualisation needs that every human experiences. Some fundamental human needs satisfiers, such as ‘home’, are synergic, addressing more than one need. For an older person, the move to a care home compromises their ontological security (through disruption of identification with place and control over environment) that one's own ‘home’ provides. This paper explores the complex issues surrounding the residential status of care home residents in terms of fundamental human needs. The methodology utilised was hermeneutic phenomenology. Eight older residents participated in the study, and each resident was interviewed up to eight times over a period of six months. Narrative analysis was used to interpret how participants viewed their experiences and environment. Five themes emerged from the narratives that collectively demonstrate that residents wanted their residential status to involve ‘living with care’ rather than ‘existing in care’. The five themes were: ‘caring for oneself/being cared for’; ‘being in control/losing control’; ‘relating to others/putting up with others’; ‘active choosers and users of space/occupying space’ and ‘engaging in meaningful activity/lacking meaningful activity’. This study indicates that if care homes are to achieve synergic qualities so residents are able to regard care homes as ‘home’, then care home staff may need to be more focused on recognising, acknowledging and supporting residents' aspirations regarding their future lives, and their status as residents. (Publisher abstract)
Making choices: meeting the current and future accommodation needs of older people. Good practice guide: reconfiguration of statutory residential homes
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Health and Social Care Board
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Health and Social Care Board
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
The relocation of older people from one care setting to another can be particularly stressful, and there is a perception that the closure of residential homes can have an adverse effect on residents' health and wellbeing. However, research carried out by AGE NI has found that the effects a home closure has on resident’s health and psychological well-being is influenced by the way in which a home is closed and how the relocation is managed. This document outlines how best practice should be adopted pre- relocation, during relocation and post relocation. For the purpose of this document, pre-relocation refers to the time period from when the resident begins to consider moving to another residence until the actual move. Relocation refers to the actual day of transition from one residence to another; and post relocation refers to the time after the individual has moved from one residence to a new residence. This document draws on previously published papers which outline lessons learnt in the reconfiguration of care homes in the past, both within the Health and Social Care system in Northern Ireland and in the wider UK. It also draws on examples of best practice for planned, phased or emergency reconfiguration; and on the experience of the community and voluntary sector (AGE NI and the Alzheimer’s Society) who have acted as advocates in the closure of care homes in the past. (Edited publisher abstract)
CQC: how to achieve outcome 5
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing and Residential Care, 14(1), January 2012, pp.36-38.
- Publisher:
- MA Healthcare Ltd.
- Place of publication:
- London
Outcome 5 of the Care Quality Commission essential quality and safety standards covers meeting the nutritional needs of residents. This is dependent on care workers knowing how to produced food that is nutritious and meets diverse needs. This article provides advice on how managers can ensure they meet these standards. It covers relevant policy and procedures, nutritional screening, care plans, training, artificial hydration and nutrition and how to ensure that best interest legislation is followed for those lacking mental capacity to make their own decisions. A listing of the 10 characteristics of good nutritional care is also included.
Living in institutional care: residents’ experiences and coping strategies
- Authors:
- TIMONEN Virpi, O’DWYER Ciara
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 48(6), August 2009, pp.597-613.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Insights into daily living in residential care settings are rare. The discussion presented in this article is based on data collected during the course of an evaluation of a residents’ council established within a large public-sector residential care setting in Ireland. The facility caters mainly for older people, many of whom have cognitive impairments or severe physical disabilities. The analysis of the data is based upon Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, and looks at physiological needs, safety needs, love/belonging needs, esteem needs, and self-actualisation needs. The article also discusses the coping mechanisms that the residents had developed to deal with the limitations and challenges of living in institutional care. The results demonstrated that although the residents did have concerns about basic needs, such as food, physical comfort, and interference with sleep, the inadequacy of these basic provisions were not the central difficulty for them. Rather, it was the lack of mental stimulation and respect shown to them and the loss of dignity and independence that ensued. The analysis indicated that ‘lower’ (basic) needs and ‘higher’ (esteem and self-actualisation) needs are closely intertwined and mutually reinforcing and should therefore be accorded equal emphasis by professionals employed within residential care settings.
Housing and care for older people: life in an English purpose-built retirement village
- Authors:
- BERNARD Miriam, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 27(4), July 2007, pp.533-554.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Retirement communities are a relatively new long-term accommodation and care option in the United Kingdom. Policy makers and providers endorse the proposition that they are suited for the accommodation of both ‘fit’ and ‘frail’ older people, although comparatively little is known about what it is actually like to live in such communities, about whether they cater adequately for older people with a wide spectrum of needs and abilities, or if they provide acceptable solutions to older people's housing or care needs. This paper addresses these questions by reporting the findings of an independently funded three-year study of a new retirement village, Berryhill, in the north Midlands of England. The paper examines the background to this and similar developments, details how the study was carried out, and then examines what it was like to live at Berryhill. It focuses on the housing and care aspects, and explores the residents' motivations for moving to the village; their views about the accommodation; and their use of and satisfaction with the social and leisure amenities. The health and care needs of residents and the formal and informal supports are also featured. The conclusion discusses whether the village can truly be a ‘home for life’ in the face of increasing frailty, and whether or not these new models of accommodation and care can indeed cater for both ‘fit’ and ‘frail’ older people.
Feelings and emotions in residential settings : the individual experience
- Author:
- DAVIS Leonard F.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 7(1), 1977, pp.25-39.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Examines the impact of admission to residential care, makes a distinction between feelings and emotions, and suggests ways in which emotional habits are formed.