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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.
EACH: clearing the channels of information for Europe
- Author:
- MEULENBERGS Leen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 5(5), September 1997, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The European Alzheimer Clearing House (EACH) aims to become an information exchange for good practice in all aspects of dementia care throughout Europe. Describes its current projects and priorities.
From hell-hole to heaven
- Author:
- JENKINS Deirdre
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 13.8.97, 1997, pp.27-29.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains how simple changes can transform care and raise morale among staff and residents in a nursing home.
Benefits of standardised assessment
- Authors:
- STURDY Deborah, CARPENTER Iain
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 26.3.97, 1997, p.53,55.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Looks at the use of a standardised assessment tool for older people for continuing care. The authors argue that the use of a national assessment instrument could improve health care. The assessment tool is described and its use in the UK discussed.
Advocating for the rights of vulnerable nursing home residents: creative strategies
- Author:
- MENIO Dianne A.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 8(3), 1997, pp.59-72.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Describes how advocates continued to work to effect change after the criminal prosecution of one nursing home corporation in the USA. The impact was felt not only by that company but also by other area are nursing home providers, policymakers, and regulators in long-term care.
Gender and relationship difference in caregiving patterns and consequences among employed caregivers
- Authors:
- NEAL Margaret B., INGERSOLL-DAYTON Berit, STARRELS Marjorie E.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 37(6), December 1997, pp.804-816.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Investigates gender and relationship differences in caregiving among a sample of employed caregivers. Results found that women devoted more time and were more likely to be primary caregivers. After controlling for other key variables, relationship added modestly to the ability to predict all five measures of caregiving consequences, and gender further added nominally to the ability to predict three of the measures. The findings lend support to the gender-role socialisation hypothesis and suggest the targeting of services to caregivers of spouses and parents, especially female caregivers.
National lottery
- Author:
- INMAN Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.12.97, 1997, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how funding long-term care in old age has become a geographical lottery, with local councils 'cutting their coats to fit the cloth'. Discusses how as a result elderly people have no national standards by which to measure the care they receive.
Can cash care?
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.12.97, 1997, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how care homes are turning to private agencies to promote their services in an intensely competitive manner. Asks whether hotel-style rating systems and partnering deals with GPs really promote use choice.
This time it's personal
- Author:
- HIRST Judy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.10.97, 1997, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
City financiers are getting the jitters about falling occupancy relates and plummeting profits in the private care home sector. Looks at how for the residents, it is their lives that are at stake.
Policy without technology: a barrier to improving nursing home care
- Authors:
- SCHNELLE John F., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 37(4), August 1997, pp.527-532.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Discusses how standards of care are written for nursing homes in the USA without a realistic assessment of whether there is an intervention protocol or resources to meet these standards. This situation produces unfair pressures on nursing home providers, who react with paper compliance strategies, and creates a barrier to implementing new interventions that do meet care standards once they are developed. This article explores this barrier and illustrates examples of interventions that have been attempted in nursing homes using a continuous quality improvement model.