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Quality in social care: achieving excellence in home care
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 19 minutes 48 seconds
- Place of publication:
- London
Service users get together with a social care academic and a leader in the home care sector to discuss how excellence can be achieved in domiciliary care. We see examples of excellence in support offered to older people, people with learning disabilities and people with physical disabilities in their own homes. Much of the focus is on the relationship between staff members and the people they support because getting that right is fundamental to excellent care. This film has now been revised. This film was previously available under the title 'Defining excellence: excellence in domiciliary care '. (Edited publisher abstract)
Factors associated with the amount of public home care received by elderly and intellectually disabled individuals in a large Norwegian municipality
- Authors:
- DOHL Oystein, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 24(3), 2016, pp.297-308.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study reports an analysis of factors associated with home care use in a setting in which long-term care services are provided within a publicly financed welfare system. The study considered two groups of home care recipients: elderly individuals and intellectually disabled individuals. Routinely collected data on users of public home care in the municipality of Trondheim in October 2012, including 2493 people aged 67 years or older and 270 intellectually disabled people, were used. Multivariate regression analysis was used to analyse the relationship between the time spent in direct contact with recipients by public healthcare personnel and perceived individual determinants of home care use (i.e. physical disability, cognitive impairment, diagnoses, age and gender, as well as socioeconomic characteristics). Physical disability and cognitive impairment are routinely registered for long-term care users through a standardised instrument that is used in all Norwegian municipalities. Factor analysis was used to aggregate the individual items into composite variables that were included as need variables. Both physical disability and cognitive impairment were strong predictors of the amount of received care for both elderly and intellectually disabled individuals. The study identified a negative interaction effect between physical disability and cognitive impairment for elderly home care users. For elderly individuals, results also found significant positive associations between weekly hours of home care and having comorbidity, living alone, living in a service flat and having a safety alarm. The reduction in the amount of care for elderly individuals living with a cohabitant was substantially greater for males than for females. For intellectually disabled individuals, receiving services involuntarily due to severe behavioural problems was a strong predictor of the amount of care received. The analysis showed that routinely collected data capture important predictors of home care use and thus facilitate both short-term budgeting and long-term planning of home care services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Defining excellence: excellence in domiciliary care
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Place of publication:
- London
Service users get together with a social care academic and a leader in the home care sector to discuss how excellence can be achieved in domiciliary care. We see examples of excellence in support offered to older people, people with learning disabilities and people with physical disabilities in their own homes. Much of the focus is on the relationship between staff members and the people they support because getting that right is fundamental to excellent care. This film has now been revised and is available under the new title 'Quality in social care: achieving excellence in home care'.
Human rights - disability - children: towards international instruments for disability rights: the special case of disabled children: proceedings of the conference: 8-9 November 2004, Council of Europe, Strasbourg
- Author:
- COUNCIL OF EUROPE
- Publisher:
- Council of Europe
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 258p.
- Place of publication:
- Strasbourg
Too many people with disabilities, particularly children, continue to experience isolation, stigma and social exclusion because they live in specialised institutions. The Conference "Human Rights- Disability-Children: towards international instrument for disability rights - the special case of disabled children", organised by the Council o1 Europe in Strasbourg (8-9 November 2004) under its Norwegian Chairmanship, reviewed current Council of Europe instruments to promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities. It focused in particular on the right of children with disabilities to grow up within a family and in a community context. The event, attended by more than 100 participants from 34 Council of Europe member and observer states, clearly showed that strengthening the rights of children with disabilities within a non-discriminatory framework "from patient to citizen" is a pan-European issue. The concrete follow-up of the conference is provided by a multidisciplinary ad hoc group of experts who, in the framework of the forthcoming Council of Europe Action Plan to promote the rights and full participation of people with disabilities in society: improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in Europe (2006 2015), will draw up recommendations and guidelines for the deinstitutionalisation of children with disabilities, promote the policy of community living and support families to care for their disabled children at home.
Becoming a personal assistant: what you need to know
- Authors:
- RUCKER Lyn, NIELD Gary, TRAVIS Luke
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Practical guide for people thinking about becoming a personal assistant. Looks at: what personal assistance services include; who uses personal assistance; and what there services are intended to do for the people who use them. Also outlines what the job entails and the work environment.
Families and their handicapped children: a study of coping
- Author:
- HEPPLE Sheila
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 112p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
Describes the competence and adaptation of families who keep their children with learning difficulties at home and bring them up successfully.
Meeting the needs of disabled children
- Author:
- SLOPER Tricia
- Publisher:
- Research in Practice
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- Dartington
This Briefing paper focuses on objective 6 of Quality Protects guidance which covers: arriving at a better picture of the numbers and circumstances of disabled children; to increase the number of children in receipt of family support services, short-term breaks and domiciliary care services; increase the number of children using play and leisure services, and to ensure parents and children have better access to information services. The Briefing summarises research evidence in each of these areas.
"Our homes, not nursing homes" project: lives of people with disabilities in nursing homes
- Authors:
- HAYASHI Reiko, ROUSCULP Tiffany
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 3(2), 2004, pp.57-70.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The voices of non-elderly adults with disabilities who currently-or used to-reside in nursing homes are rarely heard. A grassroots disability advocacy organization conducts participatory action research in the form of a writing workshop in collaboration with a local community-college. Participants with disabilities describe their lives and their experiences in nursing homes with the help of volunteer scribes. The information provided in their accounts will help strengthen community-organizing efforts of the disability advocacy organization. And participants have been empowered by the realization that their life stories are helping others to leave nursing homes and join community settings. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Closer to home: a critique of British government policy towards accommodating learning disabled people in their own homes
- Author:
- STEVENS Andy
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 24(2), May 2004, pp.233-254.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This review of British government policy on accommodation for people with learning disability compares two White Papers: Better Services for the Mentally Handicapped(DHSS, 1971) and Valuing People(DOH, 2002). NHS employment issues muted the influence of Better Services. Statistics show a slow transfer from the NHS to other providers, but little development of independent living alternatives since 1971, despite a policy emphasis on social inclusion themes in recent policy. Promotion of housing choice, where residential care provision dominates, inhibits inclusive housing. Valuing People does not address the potentially conflicting choices of disabled people and their families and is critical of local authorities for not supporting large-scale residential care. Supported living alternatives cannot receive sufficient support where residential care agencies’ interests predominate. Better incentives are needed for local authorities to provide support for people with learning disabilities to safely live in a home of their own rather than in residential care.
Domiciliary care: implementation of regulations and national minimum standards
- Author:
- WALES. National Assembly
- Publisher:
- Wales. National Assembly
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Work has been underway for some while to regulate domiciliary care services, where personal care is provided, in Wales following powers provided under section 22 of the Care Standards Act 2000. The Minister for Health and Social Services established a Task and Finish Working Group in August 2002 to provide expert advice on the realities of applying Regulations and National Minimum Standards to domiciliary care agencies in Wales.