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Recognising and preventing delirium
- Authors:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE, SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publishers:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
A quick guide to help care home managers and their staff to recognise the symptoms of delirium and to understand what they can do to prevent it. The guide covers: risk factors for delirium, recognising delirium, preventing delirium, and sharing information with the person and their family. The guide will be useful for staff training. (Edited publisher abstract)
Beat the heat: keep residents safe and well
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 2
- Place of publication:
- London
A quick guide for care home staff on how to respond to high temperatures, including actions they may need to take to keep residents safe. Keeping cool in hot weather is very important for health. In previous hot weather in the UK and Europe, people in residential and nursing homes were at particularly high risk of illness and death. The guide highlights specific measures to help: identify residents at highest risk; keep resident cool; keep the building cool; and take action in the event of a heat-related illness. Includes a checklist to help ascertain whether staff and the care home are prepared for hot weather. (Edited publisher abstract)
Heatwave plan for England: supporting vulnerable people before and during a heatwave: advice for health and social care professionals
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 18
- Place of publication:
- London
This factsheet is part of a national programme to reduce the health risks by alerting people to the dangers of severe heat and encouraging them to plan in advance what to do in the event of a heatwave. Heatwaves can happen with little warning and illness and death can occur within the first couple of days. This leaflet offers advice both on caring for people most at risk during a heatwave, and on organising others who provide care. Example advice cards for commissioners of health and social care, Directors of Public Health and health and social care staff are also included. (Edited publisher abstract)
Heatwave plan for England: supporting vulnerable people before and during a heatwave: advice for care home managers and staff
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 14
- Place of publication:
- London
This factsheet is part of a national programme to reduce the health risks by alerting people to the dangers of severe heat and encouraging them to plan in advance what to do in the event of a heatwave. Heatwaves can happen with little warning and illness and death can occur within the first couple of days. This fact sheet contains action cards outlining the roles and responsibilities required of care home managers and staff at each level. (Edited publisher abstract)
Heatwave plan for England: supporting vulnerable people before and during a heatwave: advice for health and social care professionals
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 16
- Place of publication:
- London
This factsheet is part of a national programme to reduce the health risks by alerting people to the dangers of severe heat and encouraging them to plan in advance what to do in the event of a heatwave. Heatwaves can happen with little warning and illness and death can occur within the first couple of days. This leaflet offers advice both on caring for people most at risk during a heatwave, and on organising others who provide care. Example advice cards for commissioners of health and social care, Directors of Public Health and health and social care staff are also included. (Edited publisher abstract)
Heatwave plan for England: supporting vulnerable people before and during a heatwave: advice for care home managers and staff
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- London
This factsheet is part of a national programme to reduce the health risks by alerting people to the dangers of severe heat and encouraging them to plan in advance what to do in the event of a heatwave. Heatwaves can happen with little warning and illness and death can occur within the first couple of days. This fact sheet contains action cards outlining the roles and responsibilities required of care home managers and staff at each level. (Edited publisher abstract)
Excess winter deaths and illness and the health risks associated with cold homes
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
This NICE guideline makes practice recommendations on how to improve the health and wellbeing of people vulnerable to the cold and reduce the health risks associated with living in a cold home. It aims to help meet a number of public health goals, including reducing preventable excess winter deaths, reducing pressure on health and social care services, improve the energy efficiency of homes and reducing fuel poverty. It includes recommendations on: developing a strategy for people living in cold homes; identifying people at risk from cold homes; ensuring there is a single-point-of-contact health and housing referral service; training health and social care practitioners to help people with cold homes; raising awareness among practitioners and the public of how to keep warm at home; and ensuring buildings meet required standards. The guideline is aimed at health, social care and voluntary sector practitioners; commissioners; and housing and energy supplies. (Edited publisher abstract)
Managing falls and fractures in care homes for older people: good practice resource
- Authors:
- CARE INSPECTORATE, NHS SCOTLAND
- Publishers:
- Care Inspectorate, NHS Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 96
- Place of publication:
- Dundee
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
Good practice resource to help staff working with older people in care homes to assess how well falls prevention and management and the prevention of fractures is being addressed in their service. It aims to help staff to recognise quality care already in practice; identify and prioritise areas for improvement; and test and implement new ways of working to benefit both staff and residents. Sections include: an introduction to the topic of falls and fractures in care homes; guidance for improving the quality of care; prevention of falls and fractures; identifying and managing key risk factors for falls fractures; and working together with the wider health and social care team and other care homes; and education and written guidance for staff. The guide is accompanied by a range of tools, including a self-assessment form, which can be used to improve aspects of the management and prevention of falls and the prevention of fractures. Sections of the resource pack can also be used during staff induction and training to raise awareness and increase knowledge of falls prevention. Originally published in 2011, this revised edition incorporates learning from the Scottish Government’s ‘Up and About in Care Homes’ project, and includes a new section Guidance for improving the quality of care to help support care homes to make improvement to how they manage falls. (Edited publisher abstract)
The missing million: in search of the loneliest in our communities
- Author:
- CAMPAIGN TO END LONELINESS
- Publisher:
- Campaign to End Loneliness
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 62
- Place of publication:
- London
A guide to help commissioners and service providers to develop ways of identifying older people experiencing loneliness or who are at risk of being lonely. Section one identifies methods of identifying older people who may be at risk of loneliness. These include top down approaches which use available data and data mapping to identifying geographical areas likely to contain more people at risk; and bottom up approaches, which draw on the local knowledge and capacity of communities to identify and engage with older people experiencing loneliness in their area. Section two illustrates how these different methods can be used and provides case studies to show how they have been used successfully by other organisations. Section three provides advice to help staff and volunteers to speak to people at risk of loneliness in a way that can bring about positive change. It shows the importance of using empathy, openness and respect when holding conversations and also taking a problem-solving approach to help people identify and plan their own solutions. Each section includes summary learning points and provides advice to help providers and commissioners to help change their ways of working. The report makes 10 key recommendations for service providers and commissioners. (Edited publisher abstract)
Rights, risks and restraint-free care of older people: person-centred approaches in health and social care
- Editors:
- HUGHES Rhidian, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 224p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book provides health and social care professionals with an authoritative reading resource on the ethics and use of restraint. It provides an overview of the different forms of restraint, the conditions under which they are used and their implications for the health and wellbeing of older people. Practical approaches to minimising restraint are then explored, underlining the importance of person-centred care. Innovative programmes and approaches to reducing the use of restraint are described and assessed, and case studies are drawn upon to highlight practice challenges and their effective resolutions. The perspectives of older people and their carers and families, as well as of professionals, commissioners and regulators of health and social care, are also taken into account. The contributors are drawn from an international range of health and social care settings, as well as from the academic world.