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Tag Archives: Carers Survey
Unpaid Carers: Statistics, Societal Value and Plight (BBC News / Carers UK)
Summary 6.5m people identified themselves as carers in the last Census; this is roughly one in eight adults in the UK. The unpaid carer population is expected to grow to 9m over the next 20 years. Full Text Link Reference Triggle, … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK
Tagged Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Awareness Raising, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, BBC Health News, Burden on Caregivers, Caregiving (Carers), Carer Burden in Dementia, Carer Fatigue, Carer Isolation, Carer Support, Carer's Needs, Carers, Carers Survey, Carers Week 2014, Carers Week Quest, Carers’ Breaks, Carers’ Health and Wellbeing, Caring and Family Finances, Caring and Family Finances Inquiry, Collaborative Working in Local Communities for Benefit of Carers, Empowering GPs to Help Vulnerable Patients (and Carers) to Access Services, Experiences, Family Caregivers, Family Carers, Financial Issues, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Impact of Caring on Ability to Work, Impact of Caring on Carers, Improving Lives of Carers, Informal Caregiving, Informal Carers, Information and Advice, Information for Carers, Information Needs of Carers, Maintaining Relationships, Named GPs, Named GPs for Over-75s, Needs of Carers, Personal Finances, Poverty, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, State of Caring 2014: Carers UK, State of Caring Survey, Support for Carers, Sustainable Caring, Underpaid, Undervalued Hidden Workforce, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Valuing Carers, Views of Informal Carers
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The State of Caring 2014 (Carers UK)
Summary This report presents the results of a survey of nearly 5,000 carers across the UK. Topics covered include: carers’ health, financial hardship, the impact of caring on the ability to remain in employment, statistics on how caring influences relationships, … Continue reading
Posted in Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Caregiving (Carers), Carer Fatigue, Carer Isolation, Carer Support, Carer's Needs, Carers, Carers Survey, Carers’ Breaks, Carers’ Health and Wellbeing, Caring and Family Finances, Caring and Family Finances Inquiry, Experiences, Family Caregivers, Family Carers, Financial Issues, Impact of Caring on Ability to Work, Impact of Caring on Carers, Improving Lives of Carers, Informal Caregiving, Informal Carers, Information and Advice, Information for Carers, Information Needs of Carers, Maintaining Relationships, Needs of Carers, Personal Finances, Poverty, State of Caring 2014: Carers UK, State of Caring Survey, Support for Carers, Sustainable Caring, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Valuing Carers, Views of Informal Carers
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Supporting Employees Caring for Persons With Dementia (Carers UK)
Summary The impact of dementia is an increasingly significant issue in the workplace. People are often struggling to combine work with caring for family member or friend. Carers UK and Employers for Carers performed a survey of employers and employees … Continue reading
Posted in Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (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, Patient Care Pathway, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adaptive Technologies, Advice and Information, Affordability of Care, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Alarms, Alzheimer's Society: Dementia Friendly Communities Programme, AT: Assistive Technology, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Raising, Burden of Dementia, Burden on Caregivers, Caregiver Distress, Caregiver Support, Caregivers, Carer Awareness, Carer Burden in Dementia, Carer Fatigue, Carer Isolation, Carer Resilience, Carer Support, Carer's Experience of Dementia, Carer's Needs, Carers Survey, Dementia Awareness, Dementia Challenge, Dementia Friendly Communities Champion Group, Dementia Friendly Communities Programme, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Employers, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Employee Assistance Programmes, Employee Experience, Employees Caring for Persons With Dementia, Employer Policy, Employers for Carers, Family Caregivers, Family Carers, Flexible Working Arrangements, Flexitime, Information for Carers, Information Needs of Carers, Integrated Care Services, Part-Time Working, Recruitment, Remote Care Monitoring, Remote Health Monitoring, Remote Working, Resilience, Resilience Model, Resilient Communities, Sensors, Signposting to Sources of Practical Help, Social Demographics, Special Leave, Stress Reduction, Supporting Caregivers, Supportive Technologies, Telehealth (Remote Monitoring), Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Wellness and Resilience, Wider Societal Burden, Worker Retention, Workforce Retention Recruitment and Resilience
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Measuring People’s Self-Reported Experiences of Integrated Care (Picker Institute)
Summary A report from the Picker Institute Europe includes 18 questions for measuring patient experience when using health and social care services. It recommends the introduction of a number of these questions into relevant national surveys; this would enable local service … Continue reading
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, National Voices, NHS, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Abuse of Vulnerable Adults Dataset, Aggregate Level Data Sources, ASCS: Personal Social Services Adult Social Care Survey, Care Integration, Carers Survey, Clinical Commissioning Group Outcomes Indicator Set (CCGOIS), Commissioning Outcomes Indicator Set (COIS), Community Care Statistics, Community Mental Health Service Users Survey, Coordinated Care, Coordination, Department of Health Datasets, English Longitudinal Survey of Aging (ELSA), Experiences, Friends and Family Test (FFT), General Practice Extraction Service (GPES), General Practice Patient Survey (GPPS), GP Patient Survey (GPPS), Health and Social Care Integration, Health Survey for England (HSE), Healthcare Surveys, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Integrated Care and Support, Integrated Performance Measures Monitoring (Previously Vital Signs), Integration of Health and Social Care, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Measures of Integrated Care, Measuring Patient Experience, Mental Health Community Teams Activity Information, Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS), Millennium Cohort Survey (MCS), National Cancer Survey, National End of Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN), National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC), New Approaches to Coordinating Care, NHS Inpatients Survey, Patient Experience, Patient Experience Research, Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMS), Personal Social Services Adult Social Care Survey (ASCS), Personal Social Services Carers Survey, Picker Institute, Picker Institute Europe, Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), Service Reported Information, Service-Reported Mechanisms, Stroke National Service Framework Survey, Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), TLAP: Think Local Act Personal, Transforming Patient Experience, User- Reported Information, VOICES: National Bereavement Survey
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The State of Caring 2013 (Carers UK)
Summary This report presents the results of a survey of over 3,000 carers across the UK. Many carers struggle without advice or support, and find that caring affects their health, finances and careers adversely. Carers UK proposes five challenges to … Continue reading
Posted in Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Avoidable Admissions, Caregiving (Carers), Carer Support, Carers, Carers Survey, Carers’ Breaks, Carers’ Health and Wellbeing, Discharge Planning, Family Carers, Financial Issues, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Services, Hospital Discharge, Impact of Caring on Carers, Information and Advice, Information for Carers, Information Needs of Carers, Needs of Carers, Patient Discharge, Personal Finances, Personal Independence Payments, Post-Discharge Support, Poverty, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Psychological Support (for Carers), State of Caring 2013: Carers UK, Support for Carers, Support for Carers (Hospital Discharge), Transforming Your Care Strategy, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Welfare Reform Act 2012
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Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework: Provisional Results (HSCIC)
Summary The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has published the first figures for the Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF). The report includes data for 14 measures designed to enable comparisons of the effectiveness of care delivered by councils … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), National, NHS, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Combined Activity Return (ASC-CAR), Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF), Adult Social Care Survey (ASCS), ASCOF, ASCOF Measures, ASCOF: Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework, Assessments and Packages of Care (RAP), Carers Survey, Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) in England, Daily Transfers of Care (DTOC), DTOC (aka SITREPs), Health and Social Care Information Centre, Health and Social Care Information Centre (Adult Social Care Statistics Team: Community and Mental Health Team), Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), HSCIC (Adult Social Care Statistics Team: Community and Mental Health Team), HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMDS), MHMDS, MHMDS: Mental Health Minimum Dataset, Mid Year Population Estimates, National Indicator Set (NIS), NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (IC), Referrals, Relationship Between ASCOF and NIS, Social Care, Towards Excellence in Adult Social Care (TEASC)
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Impact of Caring on Carers (Age UK)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 3 Issue 2, September 2012]. Summary A partnership of eight charities explored the impact of caring on carers’ health and wellbeing through an online survey. This … Continue reading
Posted in Age UK, Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Caregiving (Carers), Carer Fatigue, Carer Isolation, Carers Survey, Carers Trust, Carers Week 2012, Carers’ Breaks, Carers’ Health and Wellbeing, Family Caregivers, Family Carers, Impact of Caring on Carers, Independent Age, Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie Cancer Care, MS Society, Needs of Carers, Parkinson’s UK, Support for Carers, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers
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