Summarises the findings of a joint project by the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU) and Bradford Social Services Elderly Division which explored a method for keeping staff well briefed through documents, which complement Care Plans, kept in clients' homes for any visiting home care workers. The briefing documents were tested with 27 older home care clients in during two months in 1999. Results of the study found that home care assistants wanted the briefings used more widely, many wanting them for all home care clients.
Summarises the findings of a joint project by the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU) and Bradford Social Services Elderly Division which explored a method for keeping staff well briefed through documents, which complement Care Plans, kept in clients' homes for any visiting home care workers. The briefing documents were tested with 27 older home care clients in during two months in 1999. Results of the study found that home care assistants wanted the briefings used more widely, many wanting them for all home care clients.
Subject terms:
home care, needs, older people, staff, access to information;
A training pack including 39 OHPs for use in the workplace with staff specialising in the care of the elderly.
A training pack including 39 OHPs for use in the workplace with staff specialising in the care of the elderly.
Extended abstract:
Author
REILLY Mary
Title
Accident prevention in residential and nursing homes: a training pack for use in the workplace with staff specialising in the care of older people.
Publisher
Age Concern, 2000
Summary
Published in association with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, this training pack includes 39 OHP slides for use in the workplace with staff specialising in the care of the elderly.
Context
The causes of accidental injury to older people are many and complex. In order to reduce significantly the risk of accidental injury to older people the information in this pack aims to develop the skills and knowledge base of staff and as a result enhance the quality of care offered and inspire confidence in those giving and receiving such care.
Contents
An introduction explains that the pack is designed to inform managers and senior staff in residential and nursing homes, health promotion officers, home safety officers, social workers and other professional groups involved with the training of both voluntary and professional care workers specialising in the care of older people. The aims are given as to raise the user's awareness of the multifaceted causes of accidental injury to older people, to broaden knowledge about the relationship between the ageing process and causes of accidents, to enable those caring for older people to assess the risk of accidental injury and to develop safe practices of care, and to enable carers to pass on to colleagues and clients safe practices of care. The objectives are that by the end of the course delegates should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the contributory causes of accidental injury to older people, demonstrate awareness of the relationship between the effects of ageing and causes of accidents, undertake assessment of risk and accidental injury in relation to older people, identify methods of safe practice in relation to prevention of accidents to older people, and inform colleagues and clients of methods of safe practice in relation to prevention of accidents to older people.
Instructions on using the pack are followed by an example of the programme. There follows sections on accident prevention in context, the effects of ageing, accidents and older people, risk assessment, maintaining a safe environment, falls, and the responsibility for home safety. At the beginning of each is a poster advertising the subject, with spaces for the group, date, time and venue. Aims and objectives are set out at the beginning of each topic session, identifying the key points to be covered and the desired outcomes of each session. The importance of full discussion of these with delegates is emphasised, and time is set aside at the end of each session to allow clarification of aims and to ensure that objectives have been met. The teaching plan outlines the content, key points and visual aids for each topic with suggested timings. The sessions are intended to be participative with groupwork used as reinforcement of teaching. Each session is timed at around 60 minutes. If required, timings can be relaxed to allow fuller discussion of a particular topic, but it is best to avoid sessions lasting more than 90 minutes. Standard equipment needed is listed. Each session is supported by handouts summarising and reinforcing its content, and these may be supplied to delegates prior to a training session to provide the opportunity of background reading. Support material includes transparencies, supplied for each section of the course; videos, which when available are suggested for use in conjunction with the course: details are given in the support material section at the end of each subject, and running time must be considered when planning the length of a session; and details of the group exercises included in some sessions, with a note of any equipment needed for demonstration purposes. Suggested reading is also listed at the end of each session.
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Subject terms:
nursing homes, older people, prevention, staff, accidents, care homes, falls;
Journal of Dementia Care, 8(6), November 2000, pp.16-19.
Publisher:
Hawker
In the first of a three-part series, the author introduces Hearing the Voice of People with Dementia, a project exploring the process of staff, rather than outside researchers, undertaking service user consultation work with people with dementia.
In the first of a three-part series, the author introduces Hearing the Voice of People with Dementia, a project exploring the process of staff, rather than outside researchers, undertaking service user consultation work with people with dementia.
Subject terms:
older people, social care provision, staff, user views, communication, consultation, dementia;
This article argues for the importance of recognising carework as form of bodywork. It discusses why this central dimension has been neglected in accounts of carework, pointing to the ways in which community care has traditionally been analysed, the resistance of social gerontology to an overly bodily emphasis, and the conceptual dominance of the debate on care. Drawing on a study of the provision of help with bathing and washing for older people at home, it explores the body dimension of the activity, looking at how careworkers negotiate nakedness and touch, mange dirt and disgust, balance intimacy and distance. Finally, the paper draws together some of the key themes of this bodywork: its designation as 'dirty work', its hidden, silenced characters, the low occupational esteem in which it is held and its gendered nature.
This article argues for the importance of recognising carework as form of bodywork. It discusses why this central dimension has been neglected in accounts of carework, pointing to the ways in which community care has traditionally been analysed, the resistance of social gerontology to an overly bodily emphasis, and the conceptual dominance of the debate on care. Drawing on a study of the provision of help with bathing and washing for older people at home, it explores the body dimension of the activity, looking at how careworkers negotiate nakedness and touch, mange dirt and disgust, balance intimacy and distance. Finally, the paper draws together some of the key themes of this bodywork: its designation as 'dirty work', its hidden, silenced characters, the low occupational esteem in which it is held and its gendered nature.
Subject terms:
home care, older people, privacy, staff, ageing, community care, gender;
This article describes the use of self-managed work teams (SMWTs) in a nursing home in the U.S.A., their potential impacts on the provision of health care and employee satisfaction and turnover, and the factors reported to be important to SMWT effectiveness. Three SMWTs in a midsized nursing home in Wisconsin provide examples. Steps for implementing SMWTs are described.
This article describes the use of self-managed work teams (SMWTs) in a nursing home in the U.S.A., their potential impacts on the provision of health care and employee satisfaction and turnover, and the factors reported to be important to SMWT effectiveness. Three SMWTs in a midsized nursing home in Wisconsin provide examples. Steps for implementing SMWTs are described.
Administrator turnover and its impact on the quality of patient care are important concerns in the nursing home industry. This American study evaluates a model to determine which factors, attitudes, and personal characteristics can predict tenure. The extracted model correlates tenure with the administrator's past patterns of stability, community attachment, organizational in flagging NHAs who are likely to depart within their first 3 years of employment. Implications of these findings for recruitment, retention, and licensure policy are discussed.
Administrator turnover and its impact on the quality of patient care are important concerns in the nursing home industry. This American study evaluates a model to determine which factors, attitudes, and personal characteristics can predict tenure. The extracted model correlates tenure with the administrator's past patterns of stability, community attachment, organizational in flagging NHAs who are likely to depart within their first 3 years of employment. Implications of these findings for recruitment, retention, and licensure policy are discussed.
COOGLE Constance L., OSGOOD Nancy J., PARHAM Iris A.
Journal article citation:
Community Mental Health Journal, 36(2), April 2000, pp.137-148.
Publisher:
Springer
To facilitate the professional development of service providers, the Virginia project on geriatric alcohol abuse and alcoholism developed and used an informational booklet, brochure, and video in a "train the trainer" model. A core group received extensive training, and the trained colleagues in their local communities. Follow-up interviews with agency personnel revealed substantial impact on a broad spectrum of service systems and improvements in interagency coordination. Results are discussed in terms of the educational needs of professional services providers regarding the unique aspects of alcoholism and alcohol abuse in the older population.
To facilitate the professional development of service providers, the Virginia project on geriatric alcohol abuse and alcoholism developed and used an informational booklet, brochure, and video in a "train the trainer" model. A core group received extensive training, and the trained colleagues in their local communities. Follow-up interviews with agency personnel revealed substantial impact on a broad spectrum of service systems and improvements in interagency coordination. Results are discussed in terms of the educational needs of professional services providers regarding the unique aspects of alcoholism and alcohol abuse in the older population.