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Tag Archives: Care in the Community
Uncertainties Concerning the Efficacy of Interventions for Falls Prevention in Older People Living in the Community (Cochrane Database)
Summary A recent systematic review examines the possible benefits (or harms) of multifactorial and multiple component interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community. “Multifactorial interventions may reduce the rate of falls compared with usual care or … Continue reading →
Posted in Community Care, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Hip Fractures, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Physiotherapy, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ageing in the Community, Ageing Population, Botnar Research Centre: University of Oxford, Care in the Community, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Falls and Fracture Prevention, Falls and Fragility Fractures (FFF), Falls Care Bundle, Falls in Older People, Falls Prevention Programmes, Falls Reduction, Fragility Fractures, Later Life, Multifactorial Interventions (Falls), Multifactorial Interventions for Preventing Falls In Older People Living in the Community, Multiple Component Interventions for Preventing Falls In Older People Living in the Community, NDORMS: Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS): University of Oxford, Older People Living in the Community, Preventing Falls In Older People Living in the Community, Prevention of Fragility Fractures, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, University of Oxford
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Shaping Policy on the Dementia Care Crisis: Alzheimer’s Society Report in Advance of Government’s Green Paper (BBC News / Alzheimer’s Society)
Summary A report on inadequacies in the care system regarding dementia patients. The number of potentially unnecessary hospital admissions among dementia patients has risen by 73% across 65 hospital trusts, from 31,000 in 2012 to around 55,000 in 2017. Some … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Alzheimer's Society, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, Falls Prevention, 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, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Northern Ireland, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged Access to Care, Access to Funding, Access to Healthcare Services, Access to Services, Access to Social Services, Acute Care, Acute Hospitals, Admission Rates, Admission to Hospital, Ageing Population, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Alzheimer's Society’s Fix Dementia Care Campaign, Alzheimer’s Society Ambassadors, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, Awareness, Awareness Campaigns, Awareness Raising, Barriers to Older People Accessing Help and Support, Barriers to Support, BBC Health News, Capacity Pressures in the Health and Social Care System, Care and Support Reform, Care and Support Services: Choice and Control, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care in an Ageing Society, Care in the Community, Care Navigators, Caregiver Burden, Caregiving (Carers), Carer Awareness, Carer Isolation, Carer Quality of Life: Demands of Caring, Carer Stress, Carer Support, Carer Support Services, Carer's Needs, Carer’s Perspective, Carers, Carers and Families, Carers for People with Dementia, Choice and Control, Collaborative Working, Collaborative Working in Local Communities, Community Care, Community Support Services, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Daily Mail, Daily Mail’s End the Dementia Care Cost Betrayal Campaign, Dame Barbara Windsor, Dementia Action Plan for Wales: 2018-2022, Dementia Ambassadors, Dementia Tax, Dementia Tax (Alzheimer's Society), Dementia: Cost of Fixing Care Crisis (Alzheimer’s Society Report 2018), Department of Health and Social Care Green Paper on Care and Support for Older People, Department of Health Northern Ireland, Department of Health Northern Ireland: Expert Advisory Panel on Adult Care and Support, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Planning, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, End the Dementia Care Cost Betrayal Campaign (Daily Mail 2019), Fix Dementia Care Campaign, Free Personal Care (Proposal): Labour Party Conference (2019), Health and Care of Older People, Health and Care Suitable for an Ageing Population, Health and Social Care Reform, Holistic Care Assessments, Holistic Co-ordinated Care, Holistic Needs Assessment, Home Care, Home Care Services, Hospital Discharge, Inequity, Integrated Discharge Process, Integration, Integration of Health and Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Joined-Up Care, Joined-Up Strategy to Improve Whole System Flow, Joint Health and Care and Support Plans, Labour Party Conference (2019), Named Clinician, Named Consultants, Named GPs, Named Nurses, New Settlement for Health and Social Care, NHS 70 (NHS 70th Birthday), Patient Experience, Power to People: Proposals to Reboot Adult Care and Support in Northern Ireland, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Primary Care Navigators (PCNs), Proactive Care, Re-Admission NHS Hospitals, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Responsible Consultants, Responsible GPs, Responsible Nurses, Scott Mitchell, Social Care Crisis, Social Care Crisis: Abandoned by the System, Social Care for Adults Aged 18-64: Health Foundation, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Turning Up the Volume (Alzheimer’s Society), Workforce Development, Workforce Issues, Workforce Training
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Getting the Dementia Care Pathway Right (NHS RightCare / NHS England)
Summary NHS RightCare has produced a scenario which throws into contrast an optimal dementia care pathway as distinct from the possibly more common “sub-optimal” pathway alternative(s). Costings for an ideal pathway are presented, compared with those for an example sub-optimal … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, 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, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountable Care Systems (ACSs), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Berkshire West (Reading Newbury and Wokingham), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Blackpool and Fylde Coast (Lancashire and South Cumbria Later), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Buckinghamshire, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Dorset, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Frimley Health (Slough Surrey Heath and Aldershot), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Luton (Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Nottinghamshire (Greater Nottingham and Rushcliffe), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw (Barnsley Bassetlew Doncaster Rotherham and Sheffield), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): West North and East Cumbria Plus Northumberland, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Avoidable Harm, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions Enhanced Service (ES), Care Closer to Home, Care in the Community, Community Care, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Care for People With Dementia, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Costs and Cost Pressures, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Dementia Advisor Services, Dementia Advisors, Dementia Care Pathways, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressures, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Accountable Care Systems, Getting the Dementia Pathway Right: Tom and Barbara’s Story (NHS RightCare), 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, Hospital Discharge Delays, Improvement Opportunities in Local Commissioning, Inappropriate Acute Care, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Local Commissioning, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Interdependencies, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, NHS Right Care, NHS Right Care Approach, NHS RightCare, NHS RightCare and Commissioning for Value, Optimal Versus Sub-Optimal Dementia Care Pathways, Sub-Optimal Pathways: No Prevention, Sub-Optimal Pathways: Pillar to Post, Sub-Optimal Pathways: Preventable Harm, Sub-Optimal Pathways: Too Late, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Typical Dementia Care Pathway, Unplanned Admissions Enhanced Service
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Recent Assessments of Health and Social Care Integration in England: the Problems and the Promise (House of Commons Library / SCIE)
Summary The following House of Commons Library briefing investigates the challenges involved in the integration of health and social care. Recent Government policies to promote more integrated care are described, including Health and Wellbeing Boards, local strategic planning forums and … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Barriers to Integration, Barriers to Integration: Costs for NHS bodies and Local Authorities When Integrating Services, Barriers to Integration: Different Funding Incentives for the NHS and Local Authorities, Barriers to Integration: Different Funding Models, Barriers to Integration: Different Inspection Frameworks, Barriers to Integration: Different Workforce Cultures, Barriers to Integration: Difficulties in Effective Information Sharing, Barriers to Integration: Government Policy Priorities Competing With Integration Agenda, Barriers to Integration: Integration of Budgets, Barriers to Integration: NHS Services Free Versus Means-Tested Social Care, Barriers to Integration: Organisational Integration, Barriers to Integration: Problems Regarding Joint-Departmental Oversight, BBC Panorama, BBC Panorama: Home Care Providers Investigation, Birmingham, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care in the Community, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clenton Farquharson: Director of Community Navigator Services, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Community Care, Community Care Services, Community Rehabilitation, Community-Based Services, Continuity of Care, Creating the Five Year Forward View for Social Care (SCIE), Discharge Planning, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Financial Issues, Financial Pressures, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Five Year Forward View for Social Care (SCIE), Funding Transfer to Local Authorities, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Integration Fund, Health and Social Care Services, Health and Social Care: Integration Transformation Fund, Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs), House of Commons Library, House of Commons Library Briefing Paper CBP-7902, House of Commons Library Briefing Paper CBP07902, Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Innovation in Health and Social Care, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Care and Support, Integrated Care and Support Pioneers, Integrated Care and Support Pioneers Programme, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Discharge Process, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration of Budgets, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration Transformation Fund, Local Authorities, New Care Models, New Care Models Programme, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Spending, NHS Sustainability, Organisational Integration, Over-Optimism (Brilliant Plans - Sluggish Systems), Over-Optimism (NHS Reform Versus Institutional Inertia), Panorama (BBC TV), Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Patient Experience, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care, Primary Care Alternatives to Emergency Hospital Admissions, Primary Care Service Interventions, Primary Healthcare Provision, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, SCIE’s Total Transformation of Care and Support, Self-Care, Service Transformation, Service User Experience, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Support at Home (SHIELD), Sustainability, Total Transformation of Care and Support (SCIE), Total Transformation of Care and Support: Case Studies, Total Transformation of Care and Support: Local Total Transformation Conversations, Total Transformation of Care and Support: Logic Model(s), Total Transformation of Care and Support: Models of Care, Total Transformation of Care and Support: Vision, Transformation of Care and Support, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Whole System Integration, Whole Systems Approach, Whole Systems Design, Whole-System Approaches
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Health and Social Care Integration: a Tale of Over-Optimism? (NAO / BBC News)
Summary A recent National Audit Office (NAO) report warns that progress towards the integration of health and social care has been slower and less successful than expected. It has not yet delivered the efficiencies and savings that the Department of … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, 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, National, National Audit Office, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK
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Tagged Accountability in Health and Social Care, Ashley McDougall: Director of National Audit Office, Barriers to Integration, BBC Health News, Better Care Fund (BCF), Better Care Fund 2015-16 Performance, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care in the Community, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Community Care, Community Care Services, Community Rehabilitation, Community-Based Services, Continuity of Care, DCLG: Department for Communities and Local Government, Department for Communities and Local Government, Discharge Planning, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Financial Issues, Financial Pressures, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Funding Transfer to Local Authorities, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Integration Fund, Health and Social Care Integration Pioneers, Health and Social Care Services, Health and Social Care: Integration Transformation Fund, Implications of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs): Pre-Determined Solutions, Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Innovation in Health and Social Care, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Care and Support, Integrated Care and Support Pioneers, Integrated Care and Support Pioneers Programme, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Discharge Process, Integrated Emergency Department (A&E), Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC), Integrated Services, Integrating Health and Social Care Services Across England by 2020, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration Transformation Fund, Integration Transformation Fund (ITF), IPC: Integrated Personal Commissioning, Local Authorities, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), National Audit Office (NAO), New Care Models, New Care Models Programme, New Care Models: Vanguard Sites, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Spending, NHS Sustainability, Over-Optimism (Brilliant Plans - Sluggish Systems), Over-Optimism (NHS Reform Versus Institutional Inertia), Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Patient Experience, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care, Primary Care Alternatives to Emergency Hospital Admissions, Primary Care Service Interventions, Primary Healthcare Provision, Professor Jane Dacre: President of Royal College of Physicians, Reconfiguration of Emergency Care System, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Self-Care, Service Transformation, Service User Experience, Sir Amyas Morse: Head of National Audit Office, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Services, Vanguards: New Care Models Programme, Web of Care For Patients With Dementia, Whole System Integration, Whole Systems Approach, Whole Systems Design, Whole-System Approaches
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Carers UK’s Pressure Points Report: Building on the Role of Carers in Supporting the NHS (Carers UK)
Summary A recent Carers UK report examined the potential role(s) of carers in helping to reduce emergency admissions and re-admissions to hospital; and to minimise delayed transfers of care from hospital. Around 40% carers who have taken their dependents to A&E … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Carers UK, 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, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ageing and Society, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, Building Carer Friendly Communities, Care in the Community, Caregivers, Caregiving (Carers), Carer Awareness, Carer Experience, Carer Fatigue, Carer Friendly Communities, Carer Friendly NHS, Carer Friendly NHS Programme, Carer Friendly Primary Care Services, Carer Isolation, Carer Passports, Carer Support, Carer Support Services, Carer's Needs, Carer’s Perspective, Carers and Families, Carers UK’s Pressure Points Report, Carers’ Rights at Discharge, Case Management, Co-Production, Co-Production in Commissioning, Commissioning for Carers Principles, Community-Based Care, Crisis Resolution Teams, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfer of Care to Social Care (DToC), Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Experiences of Health Care Services, Experiences of Social Care Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Families, Family Caregivers, Family Carers, Funding, Health and Social Care in the Community, Heléna Herklots: Chief Executive of Carers UK, Informal Caregiving, Informal Carers, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Approach to Identifying and Assessing Carer Health and Wellbeing (NHS England Toolkit), Integrated Discharge Process, Interface Between Primary and Secondary Care, Listening to Carers, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Case Management, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Crisis Resolution Teams, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Intermediate Care, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Proactive Personalised Care in the Community, Readmissions, Reasons for Delayed Discharge, Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care, Reducing Early Hospital Readmissions, Reducing Emergency Admissions Through Community-Based Interventions, Reducing Re-Admissions to NHS Hospitals, Role of Carers in Supporting the NHS, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Caring, Undervalued Hidden Workforce, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Unscheduled Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Services in England, Valuing Carers, Working Together to Support Carers
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Funding the Shared Lives Model of Support For Living Independently At Home (NHS England / Shared Lives Plus)
Summary NHS England is to invest £1.75 million in the Shared Lives Plus scheme which aims to help people be cared for at home, rather than in hospitals. “The Shared Lives model will support people who have needs which make … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (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, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Stroke, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Age-Friendly Cities, Age-Friendly Communities, Ageing Society, Alex Fox: Chief Executive of Shared Lives Plus, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Alternatives to Hospital for People with Dementia, Alternatives to Hospital-Based Treatments, Befriending, Building Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care in an Ageing Society, Care in the Community, Caregiving (Carers), Carer Resilience, Carer Support, Carer Support Services, Carer's Allowance, Carer's Needs, Carers, Carers’ Benefits, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Chronic Care, Chronic Conditions, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Commissioning for Carers, Community, Community Care, Community Networks, Community Perspective, Community-Based Support, Creating Dementia Friendly Environments, Day Support, Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia Friends, Dementia Support Services, Dementia: Community Based Support, Encouraging Independence and Social Interaction, Fostering, Fostering Schemes for Elderly People, Friends, Friendship, Good Neighbourliness, Helping Older People Live Independently, Identifying Alternatives to Hospital for People with Dementia, Inclusion, Independence, Independence at Home, Informal Networks, Later Life, Learning Disabilities, Live-In Mental Health Support (Includes Acute Support as Alternative to Hospital-Based Treatment), Living Independently At Home, Loneliness, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Maintaining Independence, Mental Health and Illness, Neighbourliness, Older Carers, Peer Support Networks, Preventing Loneliness, Protecting Vulnerable People, Shared Lives Model, Shared Lives Plus, Shared Lives Plus: UK, Short Breaks, Social Inclusion, Social Networks, Staying Independent, Step-Down Care, Stroke Rehabilitation, Stroke Rehabilitation in the Community, Support For Living Independently At Home, Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Transforming Care for People with Learning Disabilities, Vulnerable Older People
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Local Dementia Friendly Communities: Guidance for Councils (LGA)
Summary Guidance has been released by the Local Government Association (LGA), in collaboration with the Innovations in Dementia community interest company, which explains the responsibility of councils in helping to support people with dementia through the creation of local dementia … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Alzheimer's Society, BSI, 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, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged AGE UK Coventry and Coventry City Council, AGE UK Social Care, Age UK Solihull, Alzheimer’s Australia WA, Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friendly Communities Recognition Process, Alzheimer’s Society Maidstone Peer Support Group, ASK Sara Website, Avon and Wilshire MHP, Awareness, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Raising, Barriers to Early Diagnosis, Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities (UK), Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME), BME Communities, British Psychological Society, British Standards Institute, British Standards Institution (BSI), British Standards Institution (BSI): Code of Practice for Dementia Friendly Communities, BSI Guidance, BSI Publicly Available Specification (PAS) Code of Practice for Recognition of Dementia Friendly Communities in England, BSI Standard, Building Community Assets, Building Community Capacity, Building Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Building Dementia Friendly Communities, Care Act 2014, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care in the Community, Challenge on Dementia (David Cameron), Code of Practice for Dementia Friendly Communities, Commitment to People with Dementia, Community Engagement, Community Facilities, Community Factors, Community Groups, Community Involvement, Community Networks, Community Partners, Community Perspective, Community-Based Care for People With Dementia, Community-Based Support, Connect Housing Association, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), Councils as Employers, Coventry City Council, Creating Dementia Friendly Environments, Creating Dementia Friendly Hospitals, DEEP: Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project, Dementia Action Alliance (DAA), Dementia Adventure CIC, Dementia Advisory Group, Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia Awareness, Dementia Cafes, Dementia Challenge, Dementia Challenge Champion Groups, Dementia Champions, Dementia Champions Programme, Dementia Diaries, Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project (DEEP), Dementia Friendly Communities Champion Group, Dementia Friendly Communities Programme, Dementia Friendly Communities Recognition Process, Dementia Friendly Communities: Guidance for Councils, Dementia Friendly Community Framework: Five Domains, Dementia Friendly High Streets, Dementia Friendly Indoor Environments, Dementia Friendly Outdoor and Public Environments, Dementia Friendly Technologies, Dementia Friends, Dementia Friends Campaign, Dementia Friends Programme, Dementia Health and Care Champion Group, Dementia Networks, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Community Model, Dementia-Friendly Design, Dementia-Friendly Employers, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Environments, Dementia-Friendly Homes, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia-Friendly Organisations, Dementia-Friendly Rural Parishes, Dementia-Friendly Sectors, Dementia-Friendly Shops, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Dementia-Friendly Villages, Dementia-Friendly Wards, Dementia-Friendly York, Dementia-Friendly Yorkshire, Designing Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Diagnosis and Support, Differential Impact of Dementia in BAME Communities, Drivers for Change: Dementia Friendly Bus Transport in Northumberland, Encouraging Independence and Social Interaction, Equality Act 2010, Forget Me Not (Swindon), Forget Me Not Initiative, Gateshead Dementia Action Alliance, Greening Dementia, Greening Dementia Project, Hampshire Dementia Friendly High Street, Hartney Whitney, Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs), Health Wellbeing and Independence, Housing Learning & Improvement Network (Housing LIN), Housing LIN, iD: Innovations in Dementia, Independence, Independence Choice and Risk, Innovations in Dementia, Innovations in Dementia: a CIC, Integrated Whole System Services for People With Dementia, Involvement of People with Dementia and Carers, Involving and Engaging People with Dementia (RIPFA), Izzi Seccombe: Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), JSNAs: Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Kent County Council, Kent Fire and Rescue Service, Lesbian Gay Bisexual or Transgender (LGBT), LGA: Local Government Association, Living Well After Diagnosis, Local Dementia Action Alliances, Local Dementia Action Alliances in England, Local Dementia Friendly Communities, Local Government Association: LGA, Maidstone Mentors: Kent and Medway Primary Trust, My Day My Way, Norfolk Health and Wellbeing Board, North Yorkshire County Council Trading Standards, NSW Dementia Training Study Centre at the University of Wollongong, PAS 1365 (2015): Code of Practice for Recognition of Dementia-Friendly Communities in England, Protection from Doorstop Crime, Public Health, Quality of Life for People With Dementia, Reading Dementia Action Alliance, Recognition of Dementia-Friendly Communities in England, Regaining Independence, Singing For The Brain, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Innovation Lab Kent (SILK), Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Supporting People to Stay Connected, Swindon Forget Me Not Group, Think Again Programme, Timely Diagnosis, Transport, UK Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Voices of People With Dementia, Wolverhampton City Council, York Station, Yorkshire and Humber DAA
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Care Improvement Works: a New Collaborative Knowledge Hub (SCIE / Skills for Care / TLAP)
Summary Care Improvement Works is a freely-available online resource primarily for care providers. It has been developed to support improvements in the standards of care. Care Improvement Works was produced by Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), in partnership with … Continue reading →
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Recommendations for Improving End-of-Life Care (BBC News / House of Commons Health Committee)
Summary The House of Commons Health Select Committee has issued a report which makes a range of suggestions for improving end-of-life care. Many people still die in hospital, rather than their preferred place of death. It is proposed that social … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, 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, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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