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Day services for older people: quality and effectiveness: a resource for providers and commissioners
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 61p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Age UK, the largest independent sector provider of day services to older people in England, have developed this research to share with providers, commissioners and funders. The resource is a generic set of standards that apply to day care. Providers are encouraged to adopt the standards to suit the particular services they offer. The standards are arranged in seven sections, structured according to six outcomes in the Commission for Social Care Inspection framework with an additional outcome for carers: living the life I choose; being a valued member of the community; being treated with dignity and respect; feeling safe and secure; being healthy; enjoying economic well-being; and enjoying a break from caring. The primary measure for the standards is that service users are satisfied that the standard is being met. After the standards, this resource provides a checklist that providers may find useful to collect and monitor.
What's new about confusion
- Author:
- FERGUSON Lorayne
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 31.1.91, 1991, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Holybourne day centre, a specialist centre for people with dementia, incorporates a new approach - resolution therapy.
Day care for the elderly part 2: the users of the day care service; their characteristics and disabilities
- Author:
- LENNON Joy
- Publisher:
- Cornwall Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 186p., tables, diags.
- Place of publication:
- Truro
Analyses who is in receipt of services; level of disability; complaints and dependency; day care in context; quality, quantity and level of service on offer by various agencies; assessing the service from the consumers perspective.
‘I shall miss the company’: participants’ reflections on time-limited day centre programming
- Authors:
- HAGAN Robert J, MANKTELOW Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 41(12), 2021, pp.2933-2952.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The social needs of frail or isolated older people are sometimes aided by referrals to day centres in the United Kingdom. Since the late 1940s, day centres have had a role to play promoting socialisation in later life. Additionally, attendance at day centres is often open ended, with participants only leaving due to moving to a nursing home or dying. In this study, the views of those attending time-limited day centre programmes in seven day centres in Northern Ireland have been sought in relation to their thoughts about the service as well as how they feel when it ends. Seventeen participants completed diaries for the programme duration and/or engaged in an interview process. Participants reflected on the social and educational benefits of attending but also recognised impositions in the centres that impinged upon individual choices and also the length of time they could remain. This study reveals that, in order to maintain socialisation, time-limited programmes must have clear follow-on strategies for participants. Additionally, respondents’ experiences reflect that a paternalistic model of care delivery remains in place that, whilst restrictive, reveals that access to the service is more specialised and not universal. Nevertheless, should day centres wish to remain relevant, it is important that service users are fully consulted about their desires and choices within the setting. (Edited publisher abstract)
Getting there and back: consultation with users of transport services to Newham Social Services day centres
- Author:
- CRAW Marc
- Publisher:
- Newham. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 25p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
As part of the Best Value consultation process, this survey looks at user and centre manager satisfaction with transport services to and from day centres.
Conflicting interests
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.8.93, 1993, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The closure of NHS facilities means there is now a severe shortage of day care places for adults. Users, carers and professionals alike hold mixed feelings on the services which should be provided.
Communication and consultation: exploring ways for staff to involve people with dementia developing services
- Author:
- ALLAN Kate
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 141p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Explores how staff working in the field of dementia can encourage people in their care to express their views and preferences, based on a project involving forty members of staff from day, residential and nursing services. Describes how staff can be supported in developing individualised approaches to consultation, even with users who have severe communication difficulties. Explains how staff were trained for this work; what approaches were successful; problems that can arise; how to obtain consent; and outcomes for the staff, with conclusion and recommendations for future practice.
Transport for social services day centres: users' and their families views of the services
- Authors:
- WILKINSON Althea, COONEY Margaret
- Publisher:
- Newham. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Survey of the views of transport users and their families, undertaken as part of the best value consultation process in the London Borough of Newham.
Multi-purpose residential homes: a fair deal for residents?
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 14(3), September 1994, pp.383-404.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Reports on a study carried out in 1990 for the Department of Health looking at the development of local authority multi-purpose residential homes for elderly people in England and Wales. A national survey showed that one in five public sector residential homes for elderly people would soon be multi-purpose. This proportion could be expected to increase in the 1990s. Many of these homes had become the centre for virtually all the community support services for elderly people in the neighbourhood. Despite some obvious management advantages in making use of residential home facilities for older people in the community, there have to be serious reservations about a multi-purpose model. Case studies in six multi-purpose homes suggest that residents themselves may gain little or nothing from this arrangement. Few interact with elderly people from the neighbourhood in the day centre. So much activity on the premises meant that invasions of residents' privacy and space were common.
A response to the London Borough of Brent draft community care plan 1992-95: based on consultation meetings with pensioners' groups, individual pensioners and voluntary organisations working with older people
- Authors:
- AGE CONCERN, BRENT PENSIONERS' FORUM
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London