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Integrated Dementia Care: the Eight Pillars Model of Community Support (Alzheimer Scotland)

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News (an online adjunct to Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence)

Summary Dementia affects the lives of 84,000 people in Scotland. Alzheimer Scotland’s “Eight Pillars” model was designed to facilitate the integration of health care interventions with social care interventions in Scotland. This report defines an integrated, comprehensive and evidence-based approach … Continue reading →

Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Proposed for Next Newsletter, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 8 Pillars Model of Community Support, Age-Friendly Environments, Agitation, Alzheimer Scotland, Anxiety, Bio-Psychosocial Understanding of Dementia, Care Support, Caregiver Support, Carer Support, Community Care, Community Connections, Community Networks, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Community Support, Community Support Services, Community-Based Support, Delusions, Dementia Care and Support: Bio-Psychosocial Approach, Dementia Integrated Care Pathway, Dementia Practice Coordinator, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Depression, Eight Pillars Model (Alzheimer Scotland), Eight Pillars Model of Community Support, Environment, Environmental Design, Five Pillar Model of Post-Diagnostic Support, Five Pillars of Post-Diagnostic Support, General Health Care and Treatment, Hallucinations, Integrated Dementia Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integrated Teams, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, Local Authorities and NHS Boards, Mental Health Care and Treatment, Mental Health Services, Mental Wellbeing, National Dementia Strategy for Scotland, Neuropsychiatric Symptoms, Personhood, Safe Environments, Scottish Government, Scottish National Dementia Strategy, Service Integration, Social Networks, Support, Supporting Caregivers | Leave a comment

Interprofessional Working for Community-Dwelling Older People (NIHR SDO)

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News (an online adjunct to Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence)

Summary This National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) report relates to research into interprofessional working to support older people living at home with complex illnesses and disabilities. The researchers examined how professionals work together and how they might best work … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NIHR, NIHRSDO, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Proposed for Next Newsletter, Standards, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Acute Care, Avoidable Admissions, Care Homes, CCGs, Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care (CRIPACC), Chronic Care, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Collaboration, Collaborative Care, Community Care, Community Support Team, Emergency Readmissions, Health and Wellbeing Boards, Health Care Needs of Care Home Residents, Integrated Teams, Inter-Professional Working (IPW), Interdisciplinary Teams, Interprofessional Working, IPW Models (Case Management Collaboration and Integrated Team) Case Management, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Multidisciplinary Teams, Multiple Health Issues, Multiple Needs, Multiple-Morbidities, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO), NHS Culture, NIHR, NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation Programme, Older People, Palliative Care, Partnership and Collaboration, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventative Care, Prevention, Preventive Care, Primary Care, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Residential Care Homes, Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO), Social Care, Social Care Professionals, Team Working, TOPIC: inTerprofessional Working for Older People In the Community, University of Hertfordshire, Unplanned Hospital Admissions | Leave a comment

Care in Local Communities: District Nursing (Department of Health)

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News (an online adjunct to Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence)

Summary The new vision and service model outlined in this report builds on the “Compassion in practice” national vision for nurses, midwives and care staff. The model has been developed by the Department of Health, NHS Commissioning Board Authority, The … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Proposed for Next Newsletter, Quick Insights, Standards, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework, Advocacy, Avoidable Admissions, Care in Local Communities, Care Transitions, CCGs, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Choice, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Collaborative Care, Collaborative Healthcare Practice, Community Care, Community Nurse Development Programme, Community Nursing, Compassion, Compassion in Practice, Compassion in Practice: National Vision and Strategy for Nurses, Compassionate Care, Complex Care, Discharge Planning, District Nursing, District Nursing Service Model, Engagement, Every Contact Counts, Harm Free Care, Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs), Health Education England (HEE), Hospital Discharge, HWBs, Integration, JHWSs: Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies, JSNAs: Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs), Loneliness and Social Isolation, Maximising the Nursing Contribution to the Dementia Challenge, Midwives and Care Staff, Mobile Technology, NHS Commissioning Board Authority, NHS Commissioning Board Authority (NHSCBA), NHS Outcomes Framework, NHSCB, Nursing Practice, Partnership and Collaboration, Patient Choice, Patient Discharge, Patient Experience, Population and Case Load Management, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventative Care, Preventing Loneliness, Prevention, Primary Care District Nursing Services, Public Health, Public Health Outcomes Framework, Queen’s Nursing Institute, Safeguarding, Service Integration, Six C’s of Nursing, Social Isolation, Support for Carers, The 6 Cs, Transforming Community Services Programme | Leave a comment

Quality Standards in Nutritional Care: a Toolkit for Commissioners and Providers in England (BAPEN)

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Dementia and Elderly Care News (an online adjunct to Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence)

Summary The British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN) toolkit, entitled “Malnutrition matters: meeting quality standards in nutritional care – a toolkit for commissioners and providers in England”, contains guidance on defining relevant, measurable outcomes related to nutritional care … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), Management of Condition, National, Nutrition, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged BAPEN Commissioning Toolkit, BAPEN Quality Group, BAPEN: British Association of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, British Association of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN), Care Quality Commission (CQC), CCQ, Community Care, Council of Europe, Department of Health, Department of Health QIPP Safe Care Work Stream, Dignity and Nutrition Inspection Programme (CQC), Enteral Tube Feeding, Hospitals, Hydration, Malnutrition, Malnutrition Community Pathway, National Association of Care Catering (NACC), National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), NICE, NICE Guidance on Nutrition Support in Adults, Nutrition and Hydration, Nutritional Care, Nutritional Care Standards, Nutritional Supplements, Oral Nutritional Supplements (ONS), Parenteral Nutrition, Patient Environment Action Team (PEAT), Person-Centred Nutritional Care, Quality Standards in Nutritional Care: a Toolkit, RCN, RCP: Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Screening for Malnutrition, Undernourishment | Leave a comment

Quality of NHS and Social Care Declining? (BBC News / Care Quality Commission)

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Dementia and Elderly Care News (an online adjunct to Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence)

Summary The latest report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has suggested that the quality of services provided to people across the health and care sectors in England may be beginning to suffer. The report presents a summary of over 13,000 inspections … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Aaron Park Mews, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Provision (CQC), Ageing, Ageism, Airedale General Hospital, Any Qualified Provider (AQP) Programme, BBC Health News, BMI Healthcare, Butterfly Scheme, Care Home Inspections, Care Homes, Care in General Hospitals, Care Quality Commission, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Care Sheffield, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Communication, Community Care, CQC's 16 Essential Standards, Cross-Organisation Learning, Dehydration, Delayed Transfers of Care, Dental Healthcare, Dignity, Dignity and Nutrition Inspection Programme (CQC), Dignity and Nutrition Reports, Dignity and Respect, Dignity in Dementia, Direct Payment, Direct Payments, Discharge Planning, Domiciliary Care, EHRC, Elder Abuse, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Engagement, General Hospital Care, General Hospitals, Health and Social Care, Health Care Provision, Health Foundation's MAGIC Programme, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Inspections, Human Rights, Hydration, Improving Care in General Hospital Settings, Independent Community Health Care, Independent Health Care, Independent Hospital-Based Services, Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Lorna House, MAGIC (Making Good Decisions in Collaboration) Programme, MAGIC Programme, Medicine Record-Keeping, Merevale House, NHS Bed Numbers in England, NHS Community Health Care, NHS Complaints Process, NHS Hospital Activity, NHS Hospital-Based Services, Nuffield Health Shrewsbury Hospital, Nursing Homes, Nutrition and Hydration, Patient Complaints, Patient Discharge, Patient Involvement, Patient Referred to as a Task or as a Number, Personal Health Budgets, Personal Health Budgets (PHBs), Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Dental Care, Primary Medical Services, Reablement, Reablement Services, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Record-Keeping, Residential Care Homes, Safeguarding, Seeing the Task, Self-Funding, Service User Involvement, Social Care, Social Care Workforce, South Tyneside District Hospital, Staff Motivation, Staff Shortages, Staff Training, Staffing (Care Homes), Staffing (Hospitals), Staffing Levels, Task-Centred Care, User Complaints, User Involvement, Whistleblowing, Whiston Hospital, Workforce Competencies, Workforce Planning and Development | Leave a comment

Liaison Psychiatry in the Modern NHS (Centre for Mental Health)

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Dementia and Elderly Care News (an online adjunct to Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence)

[A version of this item features in Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust), Volume 3 Issue 4, November 2012]. Summary Liaison psychiatry can contribute to the Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) challenge of improving health outcomes … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Delirium, Depression, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Mental Health Network (NHS Confederation), National, NHS, NHS Confederation, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospitals, Alcoholism, Anxiety, Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Birmingham City Hospital, BPSD, BPSD: Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia, Centre for Mental Health, Challenging Behaviour, Cheshire and Wirral Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust, City Hospital (Birmingham UK), Clinical Global Impression Scale (CGI), Clinical Outcomes, Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE), Co-Morbidities, Commissioning Liaison Mental Health Services in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning Liaison Psychiatry, Community Care, Community-Based Mental Health and Social Care Services, Cost Analysis, Cost of Co-Morbidities, Cost Savings, Costs, Dementia Care in Acute District General Hospitals, Dementia Care in Emergency Departments, Department of Liaison Psychiatry: Arrowe Park Hospital (The Wirral), Department of Psychological Medicine: Hull Royal Infirmary, Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Discharge Planning, Emergency Departments, EuroQol 5 Dimensions (EQ5D), Evidence Base for Liaison Psychiatry, Exeter Liaison Service, Exeter Liaison Service: Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Frequent Attenders, General Hospitals, Geriatric Liaison Teams, Health of the Nation Outcome Scale (HoNOS), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Hospital Emergency Departments, Humber NHS Foundation Trust, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme, Improving Care in General Hospital Settings, Leeds Liaison Psychiatry Service, Leeds Liaison Psychiatry Service: St James University Hospital & Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds Mental Health Trust, Liaison Mental Health Services, Liaison Psychiatry in the Hospital Setting, Liaison Psychiatry Services, Liaison Services, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Measuring Outcomes, Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS), Mental Health Care, Mental Health Co-Morbidities, Mental Health Liaison Services, Mental Health Services, NHS Confederation Mental Health Network, NHS Operating Framework 2012/13, Older Inpatients, Outpatient Clinics, Patient Rated Experience Measures (PREMs), Patient Recorded Outcome Measures (PROMS), Process Measures, PROMS and PREMS, PROMs: Patient Reported Outcome Measures, Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network (PLAN), Psychiatric Liaison Services, Psychogeriatric Liaison Team, QIPP, Quality and Productivity Challenge (QIPP), Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP), RAID, Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (RAID), Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Service Quality and Accreditation Projects, Schizophrenia, Severe Mental Illness, St Helier Hospital Liaison Psychiatry Service, St Helier Hospital Liaison Psychiatry Service (Carshalton Surrey), Strategic Health Authority (SHA) Mental Health Leads, Training of Acute Hospital Staff | Leave a comment

Competitive Integration in the NHS (Policy Exchange)

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Dementia and Elderly Care News (an online adjunct to Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence)

Summary This report from the Policy Exchange think-tank asserts that NHS funding arrangements encourage acute hospitals to admit patients instead of trying to treat patients at a community level or in their own homes. It shows that by international standards … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Acute and Community Service Provider Integration, Adult Social Care, Anticipatory Care Planning and Integration, Barriers to Integration, Care Integration, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Clinical Integration, Clinically Integrated Systems, Community Care, Competitive Integration, Conditions for Integration, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Financial Fragmentation in the NHS, Functional Integration, Funding and Admissions, GP Practice, GPs, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Care Reform, Health Reform, Hospital Admission Rates, Hospital Admissions Income, Integrated Care Pathway, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integrated Whole System Services for People With Dementia, Integration, Integration of Health Promotion and Illness Intervention, Length of Stay (LoS), Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Models of Care: Integrated Models, Multi-Agency Integration, NHS Reform, Perverse Incentives, Policy Exchange, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Principles of Integration, Public Service Reform, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Reform, Service Integration, Social Care, Surplus Capacity in the NHS, Systemic Integration, Whole System Demonstrator (WSD), WSD: Whole System Demonstrator Programme | Leave a comment

Health Special Administration: Consultation on Additional Safeguards to Protect Patients (Department of Health)

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Dementia and Elderly Care News (an online adjunct to Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence)

Summary The Health Special Administration consultation explains how safeguards to protect the services needed by patients will be extended to NHS services provided by social enterprises and other companies. The services which these social enterprises and other companies provide will be secured if they become insolvent, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Charitable Bodies, Community Care, Department of Health, For Social Workers (mostly), National, NHS, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Additional Safeguards to Protect Patients, Adult Social Care, Charities, Community Care, Health and Social Care Act (2012), Health Minister Lord Howe, Health Special Administration, Health Special Administration Consultation, Independent Providers, Insolvent Care Providers, NHS Health and Social Care Act (2012), Safeguards to Protect Patients (Health Special Administration), Social Care, Social Enterprises | Leave a comment

Unqualified Care Home Staff: Facts and Figures (BBC News)

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Dementia and Elderly Care News (an online adjunct to Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence)

Summary Over 200 care home providers in England have been using care workers without proper qualifications, the BBC‘s Inside Out programme has revealed. The BBC also found that dozens of convicted criminals have been working unsupervised as carers in people’s homes. These … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, Proposed for Next Newsletter, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Adult Social Care, BBC Health News, BBC's Inside Out Programme, Care Home Inspections, Care Homes, Care Minister Norman Lamb, Care Quality Commission, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Community Care, Health and Social Care, Home and Community Care Services, Home Carers, Norman Lamb (Care Minister), Proportionality in Safeguarding, Regulation, Regulatory Stringency, Residential Care Homes, Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Safeguarding Older People, Social Care, Staffing (Care Homes) | Leave a comment

New Ways of Caring for Elderly People (BBC News)

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Dementia and Elderly Care News (an online adjunct to Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence)

Summary This BBC News item reports on how communities, neighbourhoods and families have been involved in devising projects aiming to enable pensioners feel more confident that they will be cared for in old age. In York, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation charity has established Hartrigg Oaks, … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Proposed for Next Newsletter, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Adult Social Care Funding, BBC Health News, Care Credits, Care Credits (Prof. Heinz Wolff), Care Funding, Care Homes, Care4Care, Co-operative Community Action, Co-operatives, Community Care, Community Empowerment, Community Groups, Community Partners, David Blunkett, Isle of Wight, Mark Easton, Mutual Support, Mutuals, Prof. Heinz Wolff, Residential Care Homes, Social Care Funding, University of York, York | Leave a comment

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