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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)

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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 | 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, 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, 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, Dementia Action Plan for Wales: 2018-2022, 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, Fix Dementia Care Campaign, 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, 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, Social Care Crisis, Social Care Crisis: Abandoned by the System, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Turning Up the Volume (Alzheimer’s Society), Workforce Development, Workforce Issues, Workforce Training | Leave a comment

Seven Principles at the Heart of the Government’s Planned Social Care Green Paper (Department of Health / SCIE / BBC News)

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Jeremy Hunt, the Health and Social Care Secretary, has made a speech outlining the seven key principles for social care which will feature in a Green Paper expected to be published by Summer 2018. The principles, announced on World Social … Continue reading →

An Innovative Approach Hospital Overcrowding / Inadequate Bed Availability, Worthy of More Serious Consideration? (BBC News / CareRooms)

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The narrative about various inter-related crises in health and social care typically concerns the problem of excess demand for, and limited supply of, places in the community providing support for persons needing to be discharged from hospitals. Commentators commonly … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Airbnb Beds Plan (Proposed), Alternative Residential Care Settings, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Barriers and Challenges in Discharge Planning, Barriers in Access to Transformative Care in the Community: Dominance of Residential Care Homes Paradigm, Barriers to Innovation, Barriers to Innovation: Dominance of Mainstream Preconceptions, Barriers to Innovation: Dominance of Vested Interests, Barriers to Innovation: Vested Interests in Opposition to New Market Entries, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, Barriers to Support, Barriers: Lack of Continuity of Care, BBC Essex, BBC Health News, Bed Availability and Occupancy, Bed Days, Bed Shortages, Bed-Blockers, Bed-Blocking Patients (Non-Recommended Term), Care Closer to Home, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Home Admission Delay, Care of Older People, CareRooms, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Discharges Higher in Mental Health Trusts, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Demand and Capacity, Disruptive Innovation, Dr Harry Thirkettle: CareRooms, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Opportunities, Fewer Older People Receiving Help with Social Care, Financial Incentives Across Local Health and Social Care Systems (Proposals), Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Fragility of Adult Social Care Provider Market, Funding Deficits, Funding for Front-Line Healthcare Versus Social Care, Future of Residential Care, Health and Adult Social Care Providers, Health and Care of Older People, Health and Care Suitable for an Ageing Population, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Demand, Hospital Beds, Hospital Overcrowding, Inadequate Bed Availability, Innovation for an Ageing Population, Innovative Disruption (To a Failing Market), Loneliness and Isolation, Loss of Mobility During Long Hospital Stays, Market Failure, Market Failure in Social Care, NHS Airbnb-Style Scheme, NHS Sustainability, Operations Cancelled Due to Bed Shortages, Overcoming Barriers, Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, Patient Handover Delays, Patient Safety, Philip Dunne: Minister of State for Health, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapists, Physiotherapy, Poor Identification of People’s Capacity For Involvement in Their Care Planning and Management (Barriers to Involvement), Post-Discharge Support, Preventing Loneliness, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Proportionality in Safeguarding, Quality and Sustainability, Reablement, Reablement Services, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Over-Reliance on Social Care, Reducing Pressure on Primary Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Social Isolation and Loneliness, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Tom Abell: Deputy Chief Executive at Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Under-Utilisation of Housing Stock, Vested Interests, Vulnerable Older People, Wasted Resources, Whole System Patient Flows | Leave a comment

Integration 2020: Towards an Integration Standard for Health and Social Care (SCIE)

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s “Integration 2020” research was commissioned by the Department of Health to help plan for more integrated health and social care. This report clarifies what better integration of health and care is expected … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Ageing Population, All Together Better, Association, Barriers and Facilitators to Integration by 2020, Barriers to Integration, Berkshire Healthcare NHS, Better Care Fund (BCF), Better Care Fund Graduation, Birmingham City Council, Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Care Closer to Home, Care England, Care Planning, Care Quality Commission, Careline, Collaborate, Continuously Improving Value for Money, Delayed Discharges, Department for Communities and Local Government, Devolution and Local Place-Shaping, Digital Interoperability, Digital Maturity Index, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Dudley CCG, Dudley CVS, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley Healthwatch, Dudley MBC, Dudley’s Multispecialty Community Provider Model, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), foundation trust, Health and Care Suitable for an Ageing Population, 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 Services, High-Risk Cohorts Targeted, Home Group, Innovation and Training (MERIT) in the West Midlands, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Care and Support, Integrated Care in Dudley, Integrated Care in Mid-Nottinghamshire, Integrated Care in Southampton, Integrated Care in York, Integrated Care Plans, Integrated Community Care, Integrated Health and Care 2020: Integration 2020, Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC), Integrated Urgent and Emergency Care, Integration 2020: an Integration Standard for Health and Social Care, Integration Agenda, Integration by 2020, Integration of Health and Care, Integration Pioneer, Integration Scorecard, Integration Scorecard 2020, Local Authorities, Local Government Association, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Mansfield District Council, MCP Logic Model, Measuring Progress and Outcomes, Mental Health, Mental Health Alliance for Excellence, Modality in Birmingham and Sandwell, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, National Care Forum, National Voices, New Care Models, New Models of Care Programme, NHS Confed, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Providers, North West London, Nottinghamshire County Council, Personal Budgets for Older People, Personalisation, Personalised Care Plans, Preventive Support: Risk Stratification for Case Finding, Priory Medical Group, Reconfiguration of Health Care Services, Resilience, Risk Stratification, Risk Stratification Programmes, Scottish Government, Single Assessment and Care Plans, Single Assessment and Integrated Care Planning, Social Care Embedded in Urgent and Emergency Care, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Southampton City CCG, Southampton City Council, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), The Health Foundation, The Leadership Centre, The Social Work for Better, Timely and Safe Discharges, United Kingdom Homecare, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Commissioning, Value for Money | Leave a comment

Sustainability of Funding for NHS and Adult Social Care (House of Lords Select Committee)

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

Summary The House of Lords Select Committee on the Long-term Sustainability of the NHS has identified a culture of short-termism regarding the funding of NHS and adult social care. All governments have short-sightedly failed to plan effectively for the long-term, … Continue reading →

Facilitating Difficult Conversations About Encroaching Old Age (BBC News / Independent Age)

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Independent Age (using the services of ComRes) conducted a survey which indicates that many people avoid talking about getting old and planning for loss of independence in old age. People tend to find conversations about end-of-life care particularly difficult … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, National, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Advance Care Planning, Advance Decision, Advance Statement, Ageing Population, Anticipatory Decision-Making, Barriers to Conversation (Difficult Conversations), Barriers to Talking About Ageing, Barriers: Ineffective Advance Care Planning, BBC Health News, Capacity and Advance Decisions, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care in an Ageing Society, Caregivers, Caregiving (Carers), Compassion in Dying, ComRes Polling, Decision Making, Decision-Making at End of Life, Decision-Making Capacity, Delayers, Delayers and Deniers, Delegated Decision Making, Deniers, Difficult Conversations, Difficult Conversations (Families and Carers), Difficult Conversations: Anticipating Reactions, Easing Decision-Making, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Ineffective Advance Care Planning, Facilitating Difficult Conversations, Families, Family Caregivers, Family Carers, Health and Care Suitable for an Ageing Population, Home Care, Independent Age, Independent Age Helpline, Information Sharing: Advance Care Plans, Intergenerational Communication, Janet Morrison (Chief Executive of Independent Age), Lasting Power of Attorney for Health and Welfare, Let Me Decide (Advance Care Directive), Living with Dementia, Loss of Independence, Managing My Affairs If I Become Ill, Participatory Decision-Making, Planning Ahead, Power of Attorney, Proxy Decision Making, Shared Decision-Making, Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Talking About End-of-Life Planning, Talking About Getting Extra Help at Home, Talking About Moving Home, Talking About Moving Out of Home, Tools For End of Life Care Planning, Unpaid Care Provision, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Unwillingness to Consider Residential Care | Leave a comment

Crisis in Care Homes / Social Care Sustainability? (BBC News / ResPublica)

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Economic analysis of the financial sustainability of residential care home services in England suggests that care homes could – within five years – be underfunded by £1.1 billion per year. This raises worrying implications for future capacity relative to … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, 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, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Adult Social Care Funding, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing and Society, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Barchester, BBC Health News, Bupa, Care Homes, Care UK, Commissioning and Funding, Economic Sustainability, Four Seasons, Four Seasons Health Care Homes, Future of Residential Care, HC-1, Health and Care Suitable for an Ageing Population, Home Care, Lack of Alignment Between Care Funding Streams, Lack of Alignment in Organisation, LaingBuisson, Living Wage, Making Our Care and Health Systems Fit for An Ageing Population, National Living Wage, National Living Wage in Social Care Sector, Older People Living in Care Homes, Provider Sustainability, Residential Care, Residential Care Costs, Residential Care Homes, Residential Care Homes: Cost Structure, Resolution Foundation, ResPublica, ResPublica Trust (ResPublica), Social Care, Social Care Expenditure, Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding Shortfalls, Southern Cross, Spending Cuts, Spending on Local Authority Social Care, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Tale of Two Systems (NHS and Social Care), Upward Spending Pressures | Leave a comment

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