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Category Archives: Age UK
Age UK
Facts and Figures on Unmet Needs in Older People in England (Age UK)
Summary Age UK have produced a statistical report investigating needs and experiences of disadvantage in six key aspects of life’s difficulties: Ill health. Care and support. Poor housing. Poverty. Loneliness. Social isolation. Full Text Link Reference Estimating need in older … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, Integrated Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Affordable Housing: Social Economic and Environmental Determinant (SEED) of Health, Access to Healthcare: Social Economic and Environmental Determinant (SEED) of Health, Access to Social Services: Social Economic and Environmental Determinant (SEED) of Health, Ageing Population, Assessing Population Needs, Assessment of Care Needs, Assessment of Needs, Bothered by Loneliness, Broad Determinants of Health, Combinations of Needs of Older People in England, Commissioning for Older People, Complex Health and Care Needs in Older People, Complex Needs, ELSA: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Emotional and Social Isolation, Enduring Disabilities and Disadvantage, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Experiences of Loneliness, Financial Hardship, Health Determinants, Hidden Unmet Needs, High Support Needs, Identifying Patients’ Needs and Priorities, Impact(s) of Unmet Needs, Later Life, Living With Needs in Later Life, Loneliness, Loneliness and Isolation, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Loneliness in Older People, Multiple Needs, Needs in Later Life, Needs of Older People in England, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Older Men at the Margins, Overlapping Needs of Older People in England, Pensioner Poverty, Poor Housing, Poverty, Poverty-Related Concerns, Preventable Ill Health, Qualitative Research, Social Determinants of Health, Social Determinants of Health Inequalities, Social Determinants of Mental Health, Social Isolation, Social Isolation and Loneliness, Socio-Economic Deprivation, Socioeconomic Deprivation, Struggling to Cope, Tackling Causes of Preventable Ill Health, Unmet Care Needs, Unmet Mental Health Needs, Unmet Mental Health Needs of Older People, Unmet Needs and Well-Being, Unmet Social Care Needs, Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Groups
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Annual Care Quality Commission State of Care Report (BBC News / CQC / Healthwatch)
Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) recently released the annual State of Care review. It concludes that most care provided across England is of good quality and improving. Community care services need to be improved. Innovations in new approaches to care should be … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Age UK, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accelerating Innovation, Access to Health and Social Care Support, Access to Specialised Services (Including CAMHS and Secure Services), Accessible Information Standard, Accessible Information Standard (NHS England), Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Adult Safeguarding, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care Provision (CQC), Adult Social Care Services, Adult Social Care Vacancy Rates, Adult Social Care: Overall and Key Question Ratings, Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Connect Tool, Barriers to Innovation, BBC Health News, Bed Occupancy Rates, British Red Cross, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUHFT), CAMHS Services, Cancelled Elective Operations, Caremark: PatchCare® Model, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Choice Support, Co-op, Community Connectors, Community Hub Operating Centres (CHOCs), Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, CQC Challenge to Health and Adult Social Care System, CQC Inspection Questions (Safe Effective Caring Responsive Well-Led), CQC Inspections of GP Surgeries, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Dementia Connect Service, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), Dimensions of Health and Well-being Tool, Dr Nick Scriven: Society of Acute Medicine, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Farnham Integrated Care Service, Frimley Health and Care, Funding and Commissioning Challenges, Geographical Variations, GP Practices: Overall and Key Question Ratings, Greater Manchester Health and Care Partnership, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care Services, Healthwatch England, Healthwatch England's SpeakUp2020 Campaign, Ian Trenholm: Chief Executive of Care Quality Commission (CQC), Improvements Following Re-inspection, Improving Patient Safety, Innovation, Innovation and Improvement, Innovation and Technology, Integration and Innovation (Proposed), Intensive Home Support Service (IHSS), Joined-Up Care, Joint Commissioning, Leadership, Learning Disability and Autism, Learning Disability Hospitals, Learning Disability Services, Local Community Assets, Local System Reviews, Medvivo, Mental Health Beds: Local Availability, Mental Health Services, Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust, Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs) - Vanguard Site: Encompass, NHS Acute Hospitals: Overall Core Service and Key Question Ratings, NHS Mental Health Trusts in England, NHS Mental Health Trusts: Overall Core Service and Key Question Ratings, Partnership Working, Patient Safety, Patients Waiting More Than Four Hours For Hospital Beds (Trolley Waits), Positive Behaviour Support (PBS), Primary Medical Services, Quality and Sustainability, Quality Improvement, Royal Stoke Hospital, Safe (CQC Inspection Question), Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults, Social Care Practitioner (SCP) in Emergency Department (St Mary’s Hospital / Isle of Wight Council), Social Care Workforce, SpeakUp2020 Campaign (Healthwatch England), Staff Shortages, Staffing, State of Care 2018/19 (CQC), State of Care 2018/19 Report, State of Care 2018/9. Care Quality Commission (CQC): 2019, State of Care in England 2018/19, State of Care Report, Stoke-on-Trent, Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership, Sustainability, Unacceptable Variations, Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC), Variations in Quality of Care, Well-Led (CQC Inspection Question), Well-Led Indicators (CQC), Whitstable Medical Practice - Encompass (MCP Vanguard), Workforce Challenges, Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES)
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Consensus Statement on Healthy Ageing (PHE / CfAB)
Summary Public Health England and the Centre for Ageing Better have released a consensus statement, containing widely accepted proposals for making England the “best place in the world to grow old”. Five core principles are given, with the aim of … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Alzheimer's Society, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health Foundation, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Royal College of Psychiatrists, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Active and Healthy Ageing, Age of No Retirement?’, Age-Friendly Cities and Communities, Age-Friendly Communities, Age-Friendly Housing, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Ageing Society Grand Challenge, Ageism, Ageism in Britain, Ageism in Wider Society, Ageist Terminology, AGILE, Allied Health Professionals Federation, Anna Dixon, Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance, Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, Association of Directors of Public Health, Awareness of Local Assets, Barriers and Facilitators in Lifestyle Change, Barriers and Facilitators to Participation, Barriers to Employing Older Workers, Barriers to Integrated Care, Barriers to Involvement, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, Barriers to Later Life Learning, Barriers to Support, Barriers to Talking About Ageing, Barriers: Discrimination, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry, British Dental Association, British Geriatrics Society, British Society of Gerodontology, Campaign to End Loneliness, Canal and River Trust, Care and Repair England, Centre for Ageing Better (CfAB), Centre for Mental Health, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Clinical Epidemiology: Keele University, Communities and Service Design, Consensus on Healthy Ageing, Consensus Statement on Healthy Ageing : PHE and the Centre for Ageing Better, Contribution to Society, Council for Work and Health, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dental Professionals Alliance, Design Council, Duncan Selbie: Chief Executive of Public Health England, EngAgeNet, Faculty of Dental Surgery: Royal College of Surgeons of England, Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK), Faculty of Public Health, Health and Housing, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Ageing: Consensus Statement, Housing Learning and Improvement Network (Housing LIN), Housing LIN, Independent Age, Inequalities in Health and Wellbeing, Inequalities In Healthy Life Expectancy, Inequalities in Life Expectancy, Institute for Employment Studies, International Longevity Centre UK, Later Life, Living Streets, Making England the Best in the World to Grow Old, Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, Mental Health Foundation, Mental Health Inequalities, National Fire Chief’s Council, National Housing Federation, National Oral Health Promotion Group, National Police Chief's Council, Natural England, Negative Impact of Ageist Attitudes, Newcastle University Institute for Ageing, Overcoming Barriers, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, PHE: Public Health England, Physiological Society, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention Better Than Cure, Professor Carol Brayne CBE: Director of Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Medicine: University of Cambridge, Race Equality Foundation, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, Royal Osteoporosis Society, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Royal Town Planning Institute, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Societal Contribution, Society of British Dental Nurses, Society of Occupational Medicine, Sport England, St John Ambulance, Turning Point, UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing, UK Active, UK Public Health Register, University College London, University of Manchester, University of Northumbria, University of the Third Age, Urban Design Group, Versus Arthritis
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Potential Harms From Polypharmacy in the Elderly (BBC News / Age UK / EJCP / Bazian / Lancet Psychiatry)
Summary An Age UK report investigates the potential harms of over-prescribing medicines for older people. Older persons often remain on too many prescribed medicines, putting them at risk of side-effects, potentially resulting in falls and other forms of serious harm. … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Antipsychotics, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Hypertension, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Achieving Better Value, Addictions Department - Division of Academic Psychiatry: King's College London, Addictive Prescription Medicines, Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs), Adverse Drug Reactions in the Elderly, Ageing Population, Alcohol Drugs Tobacco and Justice Division: Public Health England, AntiCholinergic Burden, Anticholinergic Drugs, Anticholinergics, Antidepressants, Anxiolytics and Hypnotics (Including Benzodiazepines), ARMOUR Tool, Australian Prescribing Indicators, Austrian Criteria, Barenholtz Levy, Bazian, BBC Health News, Beers Criteria, Behind the Headlines, Benzodiazepines, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Brown Model, Cantrill Indicators, Care Home Pharmacists, Care Home Pharmacists to Cut Overmedication, Care Homes, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Care of Older People Living at Home, Care of Older People Living in Care Homes, Care Planning: Relating New Prescribing Decisions to Existing Medicines, Care Quality Improvement Department: Royal College of Physicians, Case Management and Enhanced Rapid Response, Challenging Behaviour in Dementia, Choosing Wisely, Choosing Wisely in the NHS, Choosing Wisely in the UK, Clinical Pharmacists, CMS List, Communication Between Community Pharmacists and GPs, Community Pharmacies, Community Pharmacists, Community Pharmacy, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Comorbidity, Comorbidity and Dementia, Comorbidity and Polypharmacy in People With Dementia, Dementia Friendly Community Pharmacists, Department of Family Medicine: University of California Los Angeles, Department of Primary Care and Public Health: Imperial College London, Dependence and Withdrawal Associated With Prescribed Medicines (PHE Review), Deprescribing, Discontinuation of Multiple Medications in Older Adults, Doubling-Up, Drug Burden Index, Drug Cost Savings, Economic Sustainability, Elderly Malnutrition, European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, FORTA Criteria, Four or More Medicines (FOMM) Support Service, Frail Older People, Frailty, Gabapentinoids, Geriatric Medication Algorithm, German PRISCUS List of Potentially Inappropriate Medications, Good Practice in Care Homes, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Hamdy Criteria, Hanoi Medical University, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Health Improvement Directorate: Public Health England, High Quality Medicines Reviews, Holmes Criteria, Hospital Pharmacists, Hospital‑Based Multidisciplinary Teams: Pharmacists, Hull-York Medical School: University of Hull, Imperial College London, Improving Care for Frail Older People, Improving Patient Safety, Improving Pharmaceutical Care in Care Homes, Improving Prescribing in the Elderly Tool, Improving Prescribing Practice, Improving Standards in Care Homes, Inappropriate Drug Use, Inappropriate Medication, Inappropriate Prescribing, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience: King’s College London, Integrated Care Clinical Pharmacist (ICP) for Frail Older People, Integrated Care Pharmacists (ICPs), Kaiser Permanente Model, Kings College London, KPC Criteria, Lambeth Addictions: South London and Maudsley NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust, Lancet Psychiatry, Laroche Criteria, Later Life, Lechevallier Criteria, Less is More, Liaison and In-Reach Services for Frail Older People, Lindblad’s List, Lipton’s Tool, Living at Home, Living Well in Care Homes, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Lowering Costs, Maio Criteria, Malnutrition, Malnutrition in Later Life, Malone’s List, Management of Challenging Behaviour, Managing Comorbidity and Complexity, Managing Medicines in Care Homes, Matsumura Alert System, McLeod Criteria, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medical Overuse, Medication Adherence, Medication Appropriateness Index, Medication Creep, Medication Nonadherence, Medication Reviews, Medication Reviews in Care Homes, Medication Without Harm (WHO), Medication-Related Harm, Medications Management Outcome Monitor, Medicine Combinations, Medicines Management, Multi-Morbidities, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, Multiple Comorbidities, Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Multiple Medications (Polypharmacy), National Guideline Centre: Royal College of Physicians, NCOA Criteria, New Mexico Criteria, NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), NHS Community Pharmacies, Non-Adherence: Medication-Related Harm, Norwegian General Practice (NORGEP) Criteria, Oborne’s Prescribing Indicators, Older Adults Higher Levels of Dependency Dementia and Comorbidity, Older People, Older People Supported and Involved in Decisions About Medicines, Older People With Complex Needs, Older People's Care, Opioid Painkillers, Opioids, Optimising Prescribing and Deprescribing in Older Adults, Over-Medication, Over-Prescribing, Over-Treatment, Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment, Overmedicalization, Overmedicaton in Care Homes, Overprescribing, Overprescription, Overuse of Medication, Owen’s Steps, Patient Harms, Patient Preference and Adherence, Patient Safety, Patients With Polypharmacy Risks, People With Dementia Living at Home, Pharmacist-Led Care Home Medication Reviews, Pharmacist-Led Home Medication Reviews, Pharmacist-Led Information Technology Intervention (PINCER), Pharmacist-Led Medication Reviews, Pharmacists, Pharmacists to Cut Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, PINCER, PINCER Intervention, PMDRP, Polypharmacy, Polypharmacy and Frailty, Polypharmacy in the Elderly STOPP and START Criteria, Poor Medicines Management, Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs), Potentially Inappropriate Medications in the Elderly: the PRISCUS List, Potentially Inappropriate Medicine Combinations, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing (PIP), Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Older People With Dementia, Prescribing Cascades, Prescribing Optimisation Method, Prescription Drugs, Prescription Drugs Dependency, Prescription Drugs: Long-Term Use, Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs, Prevalence of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Older People With Dementia, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventative Care, Preventing Acute Admissions from Care Homes, Prevention, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Preventive Care, Primary Care, Primary Care Adverse Drug Reactions, PRISCUS List, Proactive Specialist In-Reach, Professor Paul Cosford: Director for Health Protection and Medical Director at Public Health England, Protecting Resources and Promoting Value, Psychotropic Drug Cessation, Psychotropic Drugs, Public Health England, Rancourt Criteria, Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy, Reducing Prescribing Costs, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Reducing Wasted Medications, Robertson’s Flow Charts, Royal College of Physicians, School of Preventive Medicine and Public Health: Hanoi Medical University, Sloane List, Social Prescribing, Social Prescribing Approach to Reducing Default to Medicines / Drug-Based Treatments, South London and Maudsley NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust, START Criteria, STOPP and START Criteria, STOPP Criteria, STOPP START Criteria, Suboptimal Prescribing, Summary Care Records, Summary Care Records (SCRs), Sustainability, Sustainability in the NHS, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, TIMER Tool, Too Much Medicine, Tools for Measuring Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Older People With Dementia, Transforming Care for Frail Older People, United States, University of California Los Angeles, University of Hull, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unsafe Drug Combinations, USA. Fielding School of Public Health: University of California Los Angeles, Value for Money, Value Improvement, Vietnam, Wellbeing in Care Homes, Wolfson Centre for Palliative Care Research: University of Hull, Z-Drugs (Sleeping Tablets), Zhan Criteria
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The Care Desert Phenomenon (BBC News / Incisive Health / Age UK)
Summary An exploration of the reported “care deserts” concept. An Incisive Health report, commissioned by Age UK, points to areas of the UK where older people are unable to access residential care and / or home care, regardless of their … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Social Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, BBC Health News, Biennial Survey of Carers, Care Deserts, Care Funding, Care Home BEDS, Care Home Beds With Nursing, Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Continuing Healthcare, Cost Pressures on Social Care Providers, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Demographics, Domiciliary Care, Domiciliary Care Agencies, Domiciliary Care Providers, Domiciliary Care Workforce, Dysfunctional Market in Adult Social Care Provision, Dysfunctional Patient Flow, Elderly People With Complex Health and Social Care Needs, Fragility of Adult Social Care Provider Market, Guildford, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care Services, High Dependency, Home Care, Home Care Needs of Older Population in England, Home Care Sector, Hull, Incisive Health, Incisive Health on Care Deserts, Inequalities in Access to Care, Inequalities in Access to Care: Impact on Informal Carers, Informal Caregiving, Informal Carers, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Late-Life, Leicester, Local Government Association: LGA, NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS Outcomes (From Care Deserts), Norfolk, Paying for Care Home and Domiciliary Care, Proportion of Self-Funders in Residential Care, Residential Care, Social Care Outcomes, Social Care Services, Social Care Workforce, Social Care Workforce Crisis, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Sustainable Local Funding, Totnes, Unacceptable Variations, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Unwarranted Variations, Variation in Performance, Variations in Quality of Care, Variations in Service, Variations in Spending, Vulnerable Older People, Whole System Patient Flows, Workforce Capacity, Workforce Issues, Workforce Shortages in Adult Social Care, Workforce Shortages in Home Care
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Frailty: Core Capabilities Framework (Skills for Health)
Summary Skills for Health have produced the Frailty Core Capabilities Framework. This framework was commissioned by Health Education England and NHS England, and aims to formalise the skills to provide high quality, holistic, compassionate care and support for persons with … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Age UK, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Guidelines, Health Education England (HEE), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Active Listening, Adults at Risk of Harm, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Long-Term Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Research, Baroness Sally Greengross (APPG on Dementia), British Geriatric Society, Care and Support Planning, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Carers, Causes and Prevention of Frailty, Clinical Frailty Scale: the Rockwood Score, Co-Morbid Physical and Mental Health Conditions, Collaboration, Collaborative Care, Collaborative Working, Commissioning for Older People, Common Problems of Frailty, Community-Based Care for People With Frailty, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), Cumulative Deficit Frailty Model, Cumulative Deficit Model, Edmonton Frail Scale, Electronic Frailty Index, End of Life Care, Families and Carers, Families and Carers as Partners in Frailty Care, Frailty, Frailty Framework of Core Capabilities: Skills for Health, Frailty Index, Frailty Services, Frailty Syndromes, Frailty: Core Capabilities Framework, Frailty: Mapping to Other Frameworks, Gait (Walking) Speed Test, Health Coaching, HEE: Health Education England, Holistic Approaches, Holistic Assessments, Holistic Care, Holistic Care Assessments, Holistic Needs Assessment, Identification of Frailty, Identifying People Living With Frailty, Identifying Vulnerable People, Improving Care for Frail Older People, Integrated Physical and Mental Health, Involvement of Families and Carers, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Long-Term Physical and Mental Health Conditions, Managing Ongoing Physical and Mental Health Conditions, Medication Management, Multi-Morbidities, Multidisciplinary Care, Multidisciplinary Holistic Assessments, Multidisciplinary Teams, Multimorbidity, Older People At Home, Pathways for Frail and Vulnerable People, Patient Activation, People Living With Frailty, Person-Centred Approaches in Healthcare, Personalised Care and Support Planning, Phenotype Model of Frailty, PRISMA 7 Questionnaire, Rockwood Score, Royal College of GPs, Shared Decision-Making, Skills for Care (SfC), Skills for Care and Skills for Health, Skills for Health, Skills for Health (SfH), Targeting Resources on Vulnerable Populations, The Frailty Fulcrum, Time Up and Go (TUG) Test, Vulnerable Adults
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Improving Care for Older People (NHS England / Age UK / PHE / Chief Fire Officer’s Association / JGCR)
Summary The guide to Improving Care for Older People, developed by NHS England in partnership with Age UK, Public Health England, and the Chief Fire Officer’s Association, is actually a collection of resources (some dating back several years). This collection … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Public Health England, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Report on Loneliness in Later Life (Age UK)
Summary An Age UK report presents an overview of the latest evidence on loneliness among people aged over 50. Full Text Link Reference All the lonely people: loneliness in later life. London: Age UK, September 2018. There was an earlier, … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Online Information: Resource Archive For Dementia Care (NCCMH / RCP)
Summary The National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health’s Dementia Care Pathway contains an under-stated appendix entitled “Other helpful web-based resources”. This undiscovered gem is worthy of mention by itself alone. It comprises links to documents, websites and resources grouped beneath … Continue reading →
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Humber Strategic Clinical Network for Dementia), What Works in Dementia Education and Training, Yorkshire and Humberside Strategic Clinical Network, Young Dementia UK
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Following a Diagnosis of Dementia: Information for Patients / Families and Friends Who are Carers (DHSC / SCIE)
Summary Patient information is available, from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), for persons diagnosed with dementia and those who care for them. Guidance on the support which can be expected covers: The care plan. The health care … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Alzheimer's Society, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NICE Guidelines, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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