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Who knows best? Top tips for managing the crisis: older people's emergency admissions to hospital
- Authors:
- GLASBY Jon, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham. School of Social Policy
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
This resource identifies ten key themes, or ‘top tips’, which could help health and social care services to reduce inappropriate hospital admissions. It has been developed from a national research project which involved interviews and focus groups with older people and their families, and front-line health and social care professionals. It is argued that these ‘perceptions’ from older people and front-line staff are important as they can have a significant impact on how people live their life and access services. The themes cover: not making older people feel they are a burden; making community alternatives to hospital easier to access; to distinguish between ‘inappropriate’ and ‘preventable’ admissions; the need for early action; the importance role of adult social care; and the importance of engaging with older people to understand and respond to the increasing number of emergency admissions. Quotations from older people, their families and professionals are included throughout to illustrate key points. (Edited publisher abstract)
Person-centred thinking with older people: 6 essential practices
- Authors:
- SANDERSON Helen, BOWN Helen, BAILEY Gill
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 96
- Place of publication:
- London
Drawing on a wealth of experience of working with older people, this book presents six essential person-centred practices. Person-centred practices are a key way to provide the best possible care and support for older people and help them to be active and valued members of the community. Each of the practices is designed to support the individual and put what is important to and for the person at the forefront of their care. Each practice has been tailored so that older people can express more easily what does and does not work for them. By actively listening and making each person feel appreciated, the practices represent practical tools for frontline practitioners to form good relationships with people in their care. With supporting stories and full colour photographs to illustrate how person-centred thinking and practice is used in real-life settings, the book contains many examples to help practitioners to overcome challenges and to implement positive, effective changes to care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Dementia cafes: recommendations from interviews with informal carers
- Authors:
- AKHTAR Farrukh, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 21(4), 2017, pp.236-242.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: Dementia cafes (also known as Alzheimer’s or memory cafes) have been running in the UK since 2000. The purpose of this paper is to report on the recommendations from recent research that interviewed family carers on their experiences of using the cafes. Design/methodology/approach: The research was carried out in cafes in and around London, and focussed on informal, unpaid carers’ experiences of using them. In total, 11 carers from five different dementia cafes were interviewed, using semi-structured questionnaires. The results were thematically analysed. Findings: The findings showed that carers had an overwhelming appreciation of the cafes and what they offered, but several of the findings led to the recommendations about the recruitment and training of cafe co-ordinators; how cafes present themselves and their services and how they can offer dedicated support to informal carers. Originality/value: These recommendations will be of use to cafe organisers and commissioners, especially considering the dearth of information currently available in this area. (Publisher abstract)
Ageing Well in Wales: introduction to co-producing age-friendly environments with older people in Wales
- Author:
- AGEING WELL IN WALES
- Publisher:
- Ageing Well in Wales
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 7
This guide is designed as an introduction to the rationale and practice of coproducing age-friendly environments with older people. It makes the case for why it is essential to make older people equal partners at every stage of developing age-friendly environments and presents an overview of the core principles that need to be taken into account when developing such an approach. These are: older people are involved in the entire process from beginning to end; they feel safe to speak and be heard; issues relevant to older people are addressed; the decision making process is clear; the skills and experience of older people are central to the process of change; the meetings, materials and infrastructure are accessible to older people; and progress is evaluated through looking at real changes in the lives of older people and agreeing how this can be measured. (Edited publisher abstract)
LGBT age audit tool: a guide for services and organisations working with older people to becoming more LGBT inclusive
- Author:
- LGBT HEALTH AND WELLBEING
- Publisher:
- LGBT Health and Wellbeing
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 15
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This tool is designed to help build the capacity of mainstream organisations to provide more culturally sensitive and inclusive services to older LGBT people. It sets out a circular process of four steps, which are: lead individual identified to start review process; collection and review of data; scoring and actions identified; and action plan and implementation. The tool can be used to gain an overall snapshot of a service and to help develop practice in a way that supports LGBT inclusion. The audit tool focuses on five categories: Thinking about evidence gathering: staff providing a service are supported to develop an awareness of working with LGBT people; the service is safe and accessible for LGBT people; the service has relevant policies and procedures to support LGBT inclusive practice; the service undertakes relevant equality monitoring with sexual orientation and gender identity included; and the service is proactive about its promotion, publicity and engagement. (Edited publisher abstract)
Guidance for the care of older people
- Author:
- NURSING AND MIDWIFERY COUNCIL
- Publisher:
- Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet provides guidance for best practice in the care of older people in community and hospital settings. It focuses on nursing care but may be of interest to other health and social care workers. The guidance is in three sections, reflecting the main elements to providing the fundamentals of care in a safe, effective way: people; process; place. The people section is about nurses who are efficient and able to deliver safe, effective quality care by being competent, assertive, reliable and empathetic. Process is about delivering care that promotes dignity and supports the older person's self-respect. Place recognises that care is provided in diverse environments and that that it should be committed to equality and diversity, appropriate, adequately resourced and effectively managed.
Commissioning home care for older people
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2014
This guide captures the latest research findings on this important and emerging area of social care. Sections include: What older people want from home care services; What is good home care?; The commissioning cycle and Funding and costs. It also provides some practice examples of good work in this area. The guide is aimed at health and social care commissioners of home care services for older people with complex needs. Providers of these care services may also find it useful. (Edited publisher abstract)
Personal care planning in long term social care of older people: empowering service users
- Authors:
- MALLINSON Ian, McLEAN Susan
- Publisher:
- Social Care Association
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 107p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Surbiton
This book has a practical focus which is providing a series of practical tools that can be used to put personal care plans into action. This will help all staff to achieve an informed vision of a new style of personal care planning which empowers service users. It will assist them in making their own needs known, and help staff and service users to make decisions about how those needs may be met. It will assist staff, together with service users, to achieve decisions. The book includes a number of checklists to enable these needs to be met. Care staff with their colleagues and managers can use these checklists to evaluate the ways that they work, and the way that systems for personal care planning operate.