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Living in a nursing home: outcome standards for Australian nursing homes
- Author:
- AUSTRALIA. Department of Community Services and Health. Commonwealth/State Working Party on Nursing Home Standards
- Publisher:
- Australian Government Publishing Service
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 69p.
- Place of publication:
- Canberra, ACT
National standards for residential and nursing homes for the elderly: consultation document
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Letter accompanying consultation document.
Setting the stage: the advocates' struggle to address gross neglect in Philadelphia nursing homes
- Author:
- HIRSCHEL Alison E.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 8(3), 1997, pp.5-20.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Advocates for nursing home residents in Philadelphia, USA, began discovering gross neglect in facilities owned or managed by the largest nursing home operating in the area in 1989. This article describes two of the cases and how the Corporation's policies promoted consistently substandard care. Discusses the advocates' frustrating efforts to ensure the appropriate regulatory agencies addressed the on-going neglect in these facilities and their eventual decision, on behalf of their clients, to turn to the criminal justice system for assistance.
The reliability and validity of nursing home standards
- Authors:
- BRAITHWAITE John, et al
- Publisher:
- Australian Government Publishing Service/Australia. Department of Health, Housin
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 71p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canberra, ACT
Evaluates the reliability and validity of ratings of nursing home compliance with 31 Australian government standards.
Trade-off between quality, price, and profit orientation in Germany’s nursing homes
- Authors:
- GERAEDTS Max, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing International, 41(1), 2016, pp.89-98.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
International data suggest that for-profit nursing homes tend to provide lower quality than not-for-profit nursing homes. In Germany, the relationships between profit orientation, price and quality of nursing homes have not been investigated. We performed an observational study using secondary data from statutory quality audits of all nursing homes in Germany. The relationships were analysed bivariately via Mann–Whitney U-Test and Kruskal-Wallis Test respectively, followed by a multivariate variance analysis which also covered the interaction effect between quality, price and type of ownership. 41 % of 10,168 German nursing homes were for-profit charging on average about 10 % less than not-for-profit homes. In five out of six quality categories under study, for-profit nursing homes provided lower quality than not-for-profit homes. Quality of care in all quality categories improved with increasing prices per day. However, for four out of six quality categories examined, the quality difference between for-profit and non-profit nursing homes existed independent of the price charged. When selecting a nursing home it is therefore advisable to consider the profit orientation of the institution. German legislation should require that statutory public quality reports contain details on the profit orientation of nursing homes. (Edited publisher abstract)
Review of minimum standards in nursing homes: engagement with residents in nursing homes: report
- Author:
- AGE NI
- Publisher:
- Age NI
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 42
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This report sets out the findings from an engagement exercise with nursing home residents (and their carers where appropriate), designed to ascertain their views on their care and the home, and their positive and negative experiences in the setting. Findings and emerging themes from the engagement are intended to inform the review of the minimum standards in care homes. The draft revised standards set out the requirements for registration and inspection of nursing homes providers by the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority to ensure a consistency of approach throughout Northern Ireland and ensure that residents and their families and carers, service providers and commissioners have a clear understanding of the minimum standards of care they can expect to receive and provide. (Edited publisher abstract)
Review of minimum care standards for nursing homes; report of stakeholder engagement exercises
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 18
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This report outlines the results of a series of stakeholder engagement exercises designed to canvass views on Minimum Care Standards for Nursing Homes and the proposed amendments. Nursing home providers, managers of registered nursing home and trust care managers took part in the exercises. Delegates were asked to discuss the positive and challenging aspects of the current standards; examine the format, style, language and tone of the standards and indicate their preferences for how a revised version might look; and identify the positive and challenging aspects of the new standards and whether they felt the standards would be achievable and effective. The draft revised standards set out the requirements for registration and inspection of nursing homes providers by the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority to ensure a consistency of approach throughout Northern Ireland and ensure that residents and their families and carers, service providers and commissioners have a clear understanding of the minimum standards of care they can expect to receive and provide. (Edited publisher abstract)
Quality of life versus quality of care: elderly people and their experience of care in south Australian residential facilities
- Authors:
- HUGES Kate, MOORE Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 24(5), 2012, pp.275-285.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Residential aged care facilities provide care to elderly people but do they provide quality of life? Current issues such as the growth of the elderly population, increasing longevity and resulting complex health problems, financial demands, and policy inadequacies highlight the need for investigation into the aged care sector. In particular, residential care is seen as requiring analysis, due to the highly vulnerable nature of recipients. While nursing homes often profess to provide ‘holistic’ or ‘person-centred’ care to their residents, the evidence suggests that institutional goals will take precedence. Thus the research question for this study is ‘Does residential care in South Australia enable recipients to live to their full potential?’ The research method for this project will utilise in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a sample of 10 residents from two residential facilities. Findings reveal that while participants of the study are reasonably satisfied with the quality of care they receive, they are not able to live to their full potential. This has implications in many industrial and post industrial nations with ageing populations, for care home management and social work practice with older people living in residential care settings. (Publisher abstract)
Providing good care at night for older people: practical approaches for use in nursing and care homes
- Authors:
- KERR Diana, WILKINSON Heather
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 192p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The experiences and needs of residents and patients in nursing and care homes are very different at night, particularly for those with dementia. However, the authors suggest, homes are not always inspected with the same rigour at night and night staff do not always receive the same levels of training, resources and supervision as day staff. Although night staff have to provide the same level of person centred care as day staff, their primary task is often seen as the promotion of sleep. This can mean they feel compelled to get people back to bed as quickly as possible when what the resident needs is reassurance and opportunity to talk. The authors set out to provide night staff and their managers with the information, knowledge and practical skills they need to deliver positive and appropriate night-time care. Among the issues viewed as particularly pertinent to caring for older people at night are: nutrition and hydration, continence, challenging behaviour, medication, night time checking, pain management and end of life care. The authors also look at the impact of night work on staff, and offer practical suggestions to help them safeguard their own health. The final chapter provides a set of night time care guidelines for inspectors that will also help managers to evaluate night time practices in their homes.
Regulating aged care: ritualism and the new pyramid
- Authors:
- BRAITHWAITE John, MAKKAI Toni, BRAITHWAITE Valerie
- Publisher:
- Edward Elgar
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 372p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cheltenham
This book is a major contribution to regulatory theory from three members of the world-class regulatory research group based in Australia. It marks a new development in responsive regulatory theory in which a strengths-based pyramid complements the regulatory pyramid. The authors compare the accomplishments of nursing home regulation in the US, the UK and Australia during the last 20 years and in a longer historical perspective. They find that gaming and ritualism, rather than defiance of regulators, are the greatest challenges for improving safety and quality of life for the elderly in care homes. Regulating Aged Care shows how good regulation and caring professionalism can transcend ritualism. Better regulation is found to be as much about encouragement to expand strengths as incentives to fix problems. The book is underpinned by one of the most ambitious, sustained qualitative and quantitative data collections in both the regulatory literature and the aged care literature. This study provides an impressive evidence base for both theory development and reassessment of policy and practitioner responses in the field.