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Tag Archives: Community Catalysts
Home Care in England: a King’s Fund Review (King’s Fund)
Summary A King’s Fund report investigates problems in the commissioning of adult social care with a focus on home care. Issues under consideration include: Recruitment and retention of home care staff. Reductions in fees paid for council commissioned home care. … Continue reading →
Posted in Assistive Technology, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Telecare, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care: Local Authority Commissioning, Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE), Ageing Population, Alternative Approaches to Commissioning, Autonomous Team Working, Buurtzorg (Neighbourhood Care), Buurtzorg Model, Buurtzorg Model: Netherlands, Buurtzorg Nederland, Buurtzorg: Dutch for Neighbourhood Care, Buurtzorg: Netherlands, Care Funding, Carer Marketplaces, Commissioning Home Care, Commissioning Home Care for Older People, Commissioning of Domiciliary Care, Commissioning of Homecare Services, Community Aging in Place, Community Assets, Community Catalysts, Continuity of Care and Relationships, Continuity of Care for Older People, Cooperative Home Care Associates (USA), Delivering Home Care for Older People, Dementia and Homecare, Devon Cares, Devon Cares: Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust, Dignity, Dignity and Respect, Domiciliary Care, English Local Authorities, Geographical Variations, Gesundes Kinzigital Model, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, High-Quality Home Care (Buurtzorg: Netherlands), Home Care, Home Care For Older People: NICE Care Pathway, Home Care For Older People: NICE Quality Standard No.123, Home Care Packages (HCP), Home Care Services, Home Care Standards, Home Care Support, Home Care Workers, Home Care Workforce, Inclusion Glasgow, Independent Living With Care, Individual Service Funds (ISFs), Innovation in Adult Social Care, Integrator Models, Intelligent System for Independent Living and Self-Care of Seniors With Cognitive Problems or Mild Dementia (ISISEMD), Kaiser Telehealth (USA), Kotitori Model, Later Life, Lidköping (Sweden), Local Authorities, Local Community Assets, Local Health Services: Variations, Love2Care Devon, Mountain Empire’s Program of All-inclusive Care for Elderly (PACE), New Models of Care, New Models of Home Care, New Models of Service, Outcomes-Based Commissioning, Personal Budgets (PBs), Place-Based Teams, Provider Sustainability, Quality and Sustainability, Recruitment and Retention, Regional Variations, Scotland National Telecare Development Programme, Shared Lives and Supported Living Schemes, Shared Lives Carers, Somerset Microenterprise Project, St Monica’s Trust, Staying Independent, SuperCarers, Sustainability, Telemonitoring, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Unacceptable Variations, Values-Based Recruitment, Variations in Quality of Care, Variations in Social Care Quality and Spending in England, Wellbeing Teams
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Innovations in Health and Care: Spreading the Benefits (SCIE / King’s Fund / BBC News / OHE / Health Foundation)
Summary The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s Future of Care Briefing Number 6, which tackles Innovative models of health, care and support for adults covers the spread of innovation from small-scale models of health, social care and support for … 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), Health Foundation, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, Telecare, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), Accelerating Innovation, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs), Adoption of Innovations, Age UK Care Co-ordinator Roles, Age UK’s Personalised Integrated Care Programme, AHSN Network, Altogether Better Health Champions and Collaborative Practice, Asset-Based Approaches, Asset-Based Areas, Asset-Based Places, ‘Diffusion of Innovations, Barriers to Innovation, Breathe Easy Peer Support Groups (COPD), British Council Innovation Unit, Building Capacity in the Community, Building Community Assets, Capacity and Capability: Decommissioning to ‘Free Up’ Capacity Rare (Barriers to Innovation), Co-Production, Collaboration: Working Across Boundaries, Commissioning for Carers Principles: Principle 2 Support What Works For Carers Share And Learn From Others, Community and Voluntary Sector, Community Assets, Community Catalysts, Community Catalysts CIC, Community Circles, Community-Based Care, Connected Care, Connected Care (Portal), Creating the Five Year Forward View for Social Care (SCIE), Decommissioning, Delivery Networks, Devolved Budgets, Diffusion of Innovation, Discharge Coordinators, Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating (DAFNE), Double Run Services (Proof of Concept), Early Diagnosis of Chronic Liver Disease, Emergency Department Checklists, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS), ESCAPE-Pain Programme for Hip and Knee Pain, Factors Supporting Scaling-Up, Five Year Forward View for Social Care (SCIE), Florence (Flo), Florence: Telehealth for Long-Term Conditions, Growing innovative models of health care and support for adults: SCIE Future of Care Briefing No.6, Health Innovation Network, Health Innovation Network (HIN), High Quality Impact Evaluations, High Sensitivity Troponin Testing, Holborn House, Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators (ICDs), Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), Improving Diagnosis and Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation, Innovation and Co-Design, Innovation and Improvement, Innovation Funding, Innovation in Health and Social Care, Innovation in the NHS, Innovation Unit, Innovation Unit (British Council), Innovations in Social Care, Innovative Models of Health Care and Support for Adults (SCIE), Institutional Silos, Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC), Local Area Coordinators (LACs), Local Community Assets, Local Community Circles, Local Government Association Innovation Programme, Macmillan Cancer Nurse Specialists, Making Positive Changes in People’s Lives, Multi-Use Community Resource, MySupportBroker, National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA), Neighbourhood-Based Multidisciplinary and Integrated Teams, NESTA: National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts, North London Cares, North Yorkshire County Council’s Health and Adult Services Directorate, North Yorkshire Innovation Fund, Office of Health Economics (OHE), Paradigm Shift: From Service Silos to Systems Outcomes, Partnership Working, Peer Networks, Peer Support Networks, People Powered Commissioning, People Powered Health Programme, Physical Health Checks for People with Severe Mental Illness, Positive Changes (What Works), PPL Consulting, Prevention and Wellbeing, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Culture, Rapid Access Interface and Discharge (RAID), Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (RAID), Rapid Assessment Intervention and Discharge (RAID), Rapid Results Institute, Realising the Value, Red Bag Initiative: Hospital Transfer Pathway, Red Bags, Relationship-Based Care, Replicability, Scaling Up Improvement, Schwartz Rounds, Schwartz Rounds (UK), SCIE’s Total Transformation of Care and Support, Secure Text Messaging With School Nursing Teams, Service Improvement in Healthcare, Shared Lives and Homeshare Networks, Shared Lives Plus, Shared Lives Schemes, Short-Term Funding Impeding Necessary Change in NHS, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Prescriptions, South London Cares, South London Health Innovation Network, Spending on Innovation and Research Versus Spending on Adoption and Spread of Innovation in NHS, Spreading Innovation Challenge: Health Foundation (2018), Strength-Based Conversations, Supportive Leadership and Workplaces, Sustainable Whole System Transformation in Thurrock, Tackling the Replicability Challenge, Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), Total Transformation of Care and Support (SCIE), Total Transformation of Care and Support: Models of Care, Unreasonable 100-Day Goals (Rapid Results Institute), Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS), Voluntary Care Services, What Works, Whole System Transformation, Wigan’s Place-Based Approach, Working Across Boundaries
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The Debenham Project: Research Report (Norfolk and Suffolk Dementia Alliance)
Summary The Norfolk & Suffolk Dementia Alliance commissioned the Debenham Project. This report presents an example of a dementia-friendly community. A community-led registered charity provides holistic, personalised support to people with dementia and family carers, largely using local volunteers. Full Text Link … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, Housing LIN, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Advice and Information, CAMEO (Come And Meet Each Other), Carer’s Co-op, Community Catalysts, Crisis Support, Debenham Library Resource Centre, Debenham Project, Dementia-Friendly Care Homes, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Community Model, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Dementia-Friendly Rural Parishes, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Dementia-Friendly Villages, Dignity, Exercise Therapy, Food ‘n’ Friends Lunch Clubs, Holistic Care, Holistic Co-ordinated Care, Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN), Information and Advice, Integration of Health and Social Care, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Listening to Carers, Local Integration, Memory and Support Services, Memory Services, Mid Suffolk District Council, Mid Suffolk Local Strategic Partnership, Mutual Support, Norfolk & Suffolk Dementia Alliance, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Peer Support, Pharmacy Support, Suffolk County Council, Suffolk Foundation, Support Networks, Supportive Communities, Supportive Environments, Supportive Relationships, Telephone Support, Voluntary and Community Action, Voluntary Organisations, Voluntary Sector, Volunteer Carers, Volunteering, Volunteers
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Making It Real (Think Local Act Personal)
Summary Making it Real encourages organisations involved in the provision (and commissioning) of social care services to get real about improving people’s lives. Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) reached the first anniversary of their Making it Real programme this month … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ace of Spades Community Gardening Company, Active and Supportive Communities, Ageing Well, BME Communities, Brokerage Hubs, Building Community Capacity, Butterfly Approach, Care Homes as Brokerage Hubs, Care Integration, Carers and Confidentiality, Carers Trust, Catherine Wilton, City Bridge Trust, Community Catalysts, Community Catalysts and Walsall Council, Community Mapping, Companions, Contented Dementia Trust, Cross Sector Working, Cross-Boundary Care Pathway Redesign, Crossroads Care Bexley, Crossroads Care Cambridgeshire, Crossroads Care Cambridgeshire (CCC), DemenShare: Social Media Resource, Dementia Adventure, Dementia Care Matters, Dementia Friends, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Supportive Communities, EDUCATErs group (Early Dementia User’s Co-operative Aiming To Educate), Gill Phillips, Good Care Group, Health and Social Care Integration, Helen Sanderson Associates, Home Instead Senior Care Wimbledon and Kingston, Information and Advice, Integration of Health and Social Care, JackDawe, Local and Community Level Well-Being, Local Authorities, Local Authority and Social Care, Local Councils, Local Government Association, Making it Real, Making it Real for Carers, Making it Real for People with Dementia, Multi-Agency Working, My Home Life, National Co-Production Advisory Group, Nottingham City Council’s Dementia Service, Nottingham On Call, Nutshell Communications, One Page Profile, Optalis, Partnership Working, Peer Support Networks, People Hub, Personal Budgets, Personal Budgets (PBs), Personal Health Budgets (PHBs), Plymouth Dementia Action Alliance, Putting People First, Reading Museum, Reminiscence Services, Risk Enablement, Risk Management, Self-Funders, Self-Funding, Skills for Care, Social Media, Stockport Borough Council, Stockport Council and Borough Care Ltd, Streetly Dementia Support, Suffolk Lodge Care Home: Wokingham, Supportive Communities, Think Local Act Personal, TLAP: Think Local Act Personal, UKHCA, Walsall, Walsall MBC, Whose Shoes?, Whose Shoes? Interactive E-resource, WhoseShoes?®: Making It Real, Wokingham, Worcestershire Carers Pathway, Wren Hall
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Making it Real for People with Dementia (TLAP)
Summary The “Making it Real for People with Dementia” report has been written by Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) to explain how the Making it Real Programme can work to help people living with dementia, their families and carers. This document has been developed by a … Continue reading →
Posted in Alzheimer's Society, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Dementia Action Alliance, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ace of Spades Community Gardening Company, Active and Supportive Communities, Ageing Well, BME Communities, Brokerage Hubs, Building Community Capacity, Butterfly Approach, Care Homes as Brokerage Hubs, Care Integration, Catherine Wilton, City Bridge Trust, Community Catalysts, Community Catalysts and Walsall Council, Community Mapping, Companions, Contented Dementia Trust, Cross Sector Working, Crossroads Care Bexley, DemenShare: Social Media Resource, Dementia Adventure, Dementia Care Matters, Dementia Friends, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Supportive Communities, EDUCATErs group (Early Dementia User’s Co-operative Aiming To Educate), Good Care Group, Health and Social Care Integration, Helen Sanderson Associates, Home Instead Senior Care Wimbledon and Kingston, Information and Advice, Integration of Health and Social Care, JackDawe, Local and Community Level Well-Being, Local Authorities, Local Authority and Social Care, Local Councils, Local Government Association, Making it Real, Making it Real for People with Dementia, Multi-Agency Working, My Home Life, National Co-Production Advisory Group, Nottingham City Council’s Dementia Service, Nottingham On Call, One Page Profile, Optalis, Partnership Working, Peer Support Networks, People Hub, Personal Budgets, Personal Budgets (PBs), Personal Health Budgets (PHBs), Plymouth Dementia Action Alliance, Putting People First, Reading Museum, Reminiscence Services, Risk Enablement, Risk Management, Self-Funders, Self-Funding, Skills for Care, Social Media, Stockport Borough Council, Stockport Council and Borough Care Ltd, Streetly Dementia Support, Suffolk Lodge Care Home: Wokingham, Supportive Communities, Think Local Act Personal, TLAP: Think Local Act Personal, UKHCA, Walsall, Walsall MBC, Whose Shoes?, Whose Shoes? Interactive E-resource, Wokingham, Wren Hall
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