Category Archives: Enhancing the Healing Environment

Built Environment & Healing Environment Enhancements (Primarily King’s Fund EHE Projects)

Evaluation of the Guinness Partnership Dementia Project (Housing LIN / Guinness Partnership)

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Housing LIN conducted an independent evaluation of progress (on the part of the Guinness Partnership) towards becoming a dementia-friendly housing organisation. “ …dementia-friendly thinking is a part of our day-to-day approach”. (p.2) Full Text Link Reference Independent evaluation … Continue reading →

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Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework (NHS Improvement)

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

The Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework supports ongoing quality improvement towards the provision of “outstanding care” for people living with dementia during their stay in acute, community or mental health settings. There are eight constituent framework standards: Diagnosis. Person-centred care. … Continue reading →

End of Life Care for People Living With Dementia in Walsall Care Homes (Housing LIN)

Posted on July 17, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The following Housing LIN case study covers end of life care services in Walsall, provided by a collaboration between Pathways 4 Life (itself a partnership between the Accord Group and Age UK Walsall) and St Giles Walsall Hospice. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Age UK, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, End of Life Care, Enhancing the Healing Environment, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, Housing LIN, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 6-Item Cognitive Impairment Test (6CIT), 6CIT, Accord Group, Accord Housing, Accord Housing Group, Activity in Care Homes, Advance Care Planning, Advance Care Planning (ACP), Age UK Walsall, Black Country (West Midlands), Care Fit For VIPS, Care Homes, Care Homes Wellbeing, Care Homes: Last Year of Life, Collaboration for Coordinated Care, Collaboration: Working Across Boundaries, Collaborative Working, Collaborative Working in Local Communities, Community-Based Dementia Support Workers, Cracks in the Pathway (CQC), Dementia Care in Care Homes, Dementia Support Workers, Dementia Support Workers (DSWs), Dementia-Friendly Care Homes, Designing the Dementia Journey – a Holistic Approach to the Environment for People with Dementia, Dying Matters, Dying Matters Awareness Week, Dying Matters Awareness Week (2016), End of Life Care in Care Homes, End of Life Care Plans, Gardens in Care Homes, Good Practice in Care Homes, Holistic Approaches, Holistic Care, Holistic Needs Assessment, Holistic Quality Improvement, Housing Learning and Improvement Network, Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN), Housing LIN, Life Story Work, Life Story Work in Dementia Care, Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST), Meaningful Activity and Occupation, Meaningful Occupation, MUST Nutrition Screening, Namaste Care Intervention to Improve Quality of Dying for People with Advanced Dementia in Care Homes, Namaste Care Programme, Namaste: Honouring the Spirit, NHS Walsall CCG, NHS Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group, On the Brink: The Future of End of Life Care (Macmillan Cancer Support 2016), Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD), Pain Scales, PAINAD (Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia) Tool, Partnership and Collaboration, Pathways 4 Life, Pathways For Life: Joint Partnership Scheme Between Age UK Walsall and Accord Housing Association Ltd, Preferred Place of Death, Quality Statement 1: Participation in Meaningful Activity, Six-Item Cognitive Impairment Test (6CIT), St Giles Walsall Hospice, St. Giles Hospice, This is Me, This is Me: Person-Centred Care, VIPS Framework of Dementia Care, Walsall, Wellbeing Action Plans, West Midlands | Leave a comment

Quality Checkers: Efforts to Reduce Learning Disabilities-Related Barriers to Accessing NHS Services (NHS England)

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The NHS Quality Checkers Programme will involve people with learning disabilities helping to inspect their local NHS services and offer advice on how these can be re-designed to better meet their needs (and the needs of other patients). Tools … Continue reading →

NHS Involvement in Health Housing / Healthy New Towns (BBC News / NHS England / King’s Fund)

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Ten new housing developments in England will be designed with an eye to encouraging healthy and independent living, obesity reduction and dementia friendly signage. Full Text Link Reference NHS to help create ‘healthy new towns’. London: BBC Health News, … Continue reading →

The Frailty Fulcrum: A Multi-Dimensional Model for Understanding Issues in Frailty (NHS England / Fusion48)

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The “Frailty Fulcrum” provides an animated model to help conceptualise, and balance, the main shifting factors – both positive and negative – potentially at play in frailty. It was developed by Fusion48. The main influencing factors are considered to … Continue reading →

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PLACE England 2015: Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (HSCIC)

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)’s 2015 report of Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE), covers assessments of healthcare premises in the NHS and the independent sector (in England). The inspection / assessment teams comprised at … Continue reading →

DSDC Training and Advice Services in West Midlands (DSDC / The Lighthouse)

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The respected Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) at Stirling University will provide a free information event entitled “Changing the Culture of Dementia Care” at Sandwell’s The Lighthouse. The Lighthouse Project has established a dementia resource hub in the West … Continue reading →

Living Spaces for People Living With Dementia and Sight Loss (University of Stirling and Thomas Pocklington Trust)

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Research from Stirling University, published by the Thomas Pocklington Trust, shows that good design of living spaces can improve the lives of people living with two common conditions which often occur together: dementia and sight loss. Evidence-based guidelines have … Continue reading →

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Information Resources on the Links Between Housing and Dementia (Housing LIN)

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Housing Learning and Improvement Network produces and updates several sets (or showcases) of information resources about the potential roles of housing in helping people to live well with dementia. “Research suggests that as many as 30% of residents … Continue reading →

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