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Standards in day care services
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 123p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report from a small working group with the remit to identify ways in which day centres for older people can work most effectively for all involved with them. Areas looked at include: basic principles of care; getting a place; care practices; the helpers; enhancing safety and reducing unnecessary risk; meals; transport; buildings and their contents; finance; and monitoring and review.
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.
Quality work with older people: developing models of good practice
- Author:
- WINNER Mary
- Publisher:
- Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Based on a three day workshop convened by CCETSW to give work with older people a higher profile in social work courses. Offers guidance on relevant knowledge, skills, values and competencies for students undertaking professional training.
Quality counts: achieving quality in social care services
- Editors:
- KELLY Des, WARR Bridget
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 240p.,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed at social services and social work departments, trainers, inspection and registration staff, private and voluntary care providers, residential homes, special schools, sheltered workshops, advice agencies, client support groups, and legal personnel in local government and private practice. Contains chapters on: what is meant by quality in social care; approaches to quality systems; quality and its social construction by managers in care service organisations; establishing standards in social care; the role of inspection and evaluation in social care; use of checklists in inspection and quality assurance in elderly person's homes; training for quality; user participation in quality assurance; total quality management; and the challenges of the quest for quality in social care services.