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Tag Archives: Home Care Packages (HCP)
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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More on the Tipping-Point for Sustainability of Adult Social Care: a Solution Expected This Autumn? (BBC News / Lancet Public Health)
Summary Estimates of the rising demand for round-the-clock home care, from Newcastle University / the London School of Economics and Political Science and published in Lancet Public Health, suggest that the number of people aged 85 and over requiring 24-hour … Continue reading →
Posted in Universal Interest
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Tagged Adult Social Care, Ageing Population, Ageing With Multimorbidity, BBC Health News, Burden of Dementia, Care Funding, Caroline Abrahams: Director of Age UK, CFAS II Study, Chronic and Severe Illness, Chronic Conditions, Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS) Collaboration, Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS) Project, Cognitive Function and Ageing Study II, Cognitive Functioning and Ageing Study (CFAS), Commissioning Home Care, Commissioning Home Care for Older People, Commissioning of Domiciliary Care, Commissioning of Homecare Services, Community Care, Comorbidity and Dementia, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Costs and Cost Pressures, Council Tax, Cross-Party and Public Consensus On Sustainable Funding, Delivering Home Care for Older People, Dementia and Homecare, Dementia and Multimorbidity, Dementia and the Management of Other Long-Term Conditions, Dementia Incidence, Domiciliary Care, English Local Authorities, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Forecasting The Care Needs Of Older Population In England, Funding of Adult Social Care, Future Financial Sustainability, Future of NHS and Social Care, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, High Dependency, Home Care, Home Care Needs of Older Population in England, Home Care Packages (HCP), Home Care Services, Home Care Standards, Home Care Support, Home Care Workers, Independence at Home, Independent Living With Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Late-Life Dependency, LGA: Local Government Association, Local Authorities, Local Government Association: LGA, Long Grass: No More Long Grass Remaining For Social Care Funding Gap, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Long-Term Funding of Adult Social Care, Medical Research Council's Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS) Project, Modelling the Outcome and Cost Impacts of Interventions for Dementia Project (MODEM), MODEM (Modelling the Outcome and Cost Impacts of Interventions for Dementia) Project, MODEM Project, MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS), Mutual Care Between Older Spouses With Physical Disabilities, Newcastle University Institute for Ageing, Nick Forbes: Senior Vice-Chair of Local Government Association, Older Adults Higher Levels of Dependency Dementia and Comorbidity, Older Adults With Medium or High Dependency and Dementia, Population Ageing and Care Simulation (PACSim) Modelling Study, Prevalence of Dementia, Professor Louise Robinson: Director Newcastle University Institute for Ageing, Projections of Multi-Morbidity in Older Population in England to 2035, Social Care, Social Care Expenditure, Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding Shortfalls, Social Care Needs of Older Population in England, Social Epidemiology, Staying Independent, Sustainability, Sustainable Long-Term Funding of Adult Social Care, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Trends in Disability and Life Expectancy in England and Wales, Unpaid Care, Upward Spending Pressures
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Proposals for a Social Care Premium: Grasping the Nettle or Another Modest Proposal? (BBC News / House of Commons)
Summary If social care is to become free at the point of delivery, with a definite cap on the burden to be carried by individual families, the Government’s Green Paper planned for Autumn 2018 has to solve a funding gap … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, 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, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Unmet Social Care Needs of Older People Living in Their Own Homes (Ipsos MORI / NIHR / Age UK / NatCen Social Research / Independent Age)
Summary Ipsos MORI, in association with the NIHR School for Social Care Research, Age UK, NatCen Social Research and Independent Age, have produced a report exploring the nature and extent of “unmet needs” for social care among older persons living … Continue reading →
Posted in Age 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, Mental Health, National, NIHR, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK NSC, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Health and Social Care Support, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care Funding (England), Adult Social Care in England, Advice and Information, Affordability of Care and Support, Ageing Population, Aids and Adaptations, Allison Dunatchik: NatCen Social Research, Assessments and Eligibility, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Barriers and Facilitators in Lifestyle Change, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, Barriers to Support, Barriers: Access to Funding, Barriers: Inconsistency in Care Standards, Barriers: Lack of Continuity of Care, Care Act 2014, Care Funding, Caroline Abrahams: Director of Age UK, Commissioning of Domiciliary Care, Disability and Home Care in England’s Older Population, Domiciliary Care, Dr Margaret Blake: Research Director at Ipsos MORI, Eligibility, Eligibility Criteria for Social Care, Eligibility for Care, ELSA, ELSA: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, English Local Authorities, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), Failing Safety Net (Age UK), Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) Eligibility Criteria, Financial Constraints, Financial Eligibility, Financial Issues, Financial Pressures, Health Survey for England, Health Survey for England (HSE), Help for Elderly Living at Home, Hidden Unmet Needs, Home Adaptations, Home Care, Home Care Funding and Costs, Home Care Organisations, Home Care Packages (HCP), Home Care Services, Home Care Standards, Home Care Support, Home Care: Commissioning, Housing Adaptations, Impact(s) of Unmet Needs, In-Depth Interviews With Older People, Independence, Independence and Wellbeing, Independence at Home, Independence of Older Adults, Independent Age, Independent Living At Home, Individual Care Plans (Complex Needs), Information and Advice, Information and Advice Services, Integrated Commissioning, Ipsos Mori, Ipsos Public Affairs, Janet Morrison (Chief Executive of Independent Age), Lack of Bespoke Information and Advice, LGA: Local Government Association, Living Alone, Local Authorities, Local Authority Contribution to Care Costs or Adaptations, Local Care Providers, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Service Providers, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Loss of Confidence, Loss of Mobility, Loss of Purpose, Meaningful Activity and Occupation, Mobility Problems, NatCen Social Research, NatCen Social Research (NatCen), NatCen Social Research: University College London, National Minimum Eligibility Threshold for Adult Care and Support, Nature and Prevalence of Unmet Need for Social Care, NIHR School for Social Care Research, NIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR), Older People With Complex Needs, Patterns of Experience and Factors Contributing to People Developing Care Needs, Personal Well-Being, Predictors of Unmet Need, Preventative Care, Preventative Interventions, Preventative Services, Prevention, Public Transport, Publicly Funded Support, Purpose in Life, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Secondary Analysis of English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) Data, Quantitative Secondary Analysis of Health Survey for England (HSE) Data, Reduced Mobility, Reluctance to Admit Unmet Needs, Resilience, Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding Gap, Social Care Providers, Social Contacts, Social Isolation, Specialist Welfare Advice, Support for People with Complex Needs, Supporting Wellbeing Resilience and Independence, Transport and Mobility, Unmet Needs, Unmet Needs and Well-Being, Unmet Needs of Community-Dwelling Older Persons, Unmet Social Care Needs of Older People Living in Their Own Homes, Well-Being, Willingness to Pay for Care and Support
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More Questions About the Sustainability of Elderly Home Care / Social Care (BBC News / Age UK / Unison)
Summary An Age UK review indicates that cuts to social care in England mean that hundreds of thousands of vulnerable older people may be left to struggle routinely with inadequate home-based help and care. Full Text Link Reference Triggle, N. … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, BBC News, 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, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK
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Tagged Adult Social Care, Ageing Population, Allied Healthcare, Allied Healthcare Seeks Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), BBC Health News, BBC Panorama, Care Funding, Caroline Abrahams: Director of Age UK, Commissioning Home Care, Commissioning Home Care for Older People, Commissioning of Domiciliary Care, Commissioning of Homecare Services, Delivering Home Care for Older People, Dementia and Homecare, Dignity, Dignity and Respect, Domiciliary Care, English Local Authorities, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Home Care, Home Care Packages (HCP), Home Care Services, Home Care Standards, Home Care Support, Home Care Workers, Independence at Home, Independent Living With Care, Later Life, Local Authorities, Local Government Information Unit (LGiU), Staying Independent, Sustainability, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), UK Homecare Association, UK Homecare Association (UKHCA), UKHCA: UK Homecare Association, Unison
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Home Care For Older People: NICE Quality Standard QS123 (NICE / BBC News)
Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a new quality standard “Home Care For Older People: Quality Standard (QS123)”, which covers recommended minimum standards for home care. It clarifies how social care providers can help … Continue reading →
Posted in 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, NICE Guidelines, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Telecare, UK, Universal Interest
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Fifteen Minute Visits for Personal Care Remain (BBC News / Unison)
Summary Research by the union Unison has identified the persistence of 15-minute home care visits, which are too short for all but the most minimal “flying visits”. Such short home care visits are acceptable, for example, when dropping by to … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Home Care Services Guideline (BBC News / NICE)
Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a new guideline concerning high-quality home care services for older people (i.e. home care, sometimes known as domiciliary care). It puts the focus on supporting the aspirations, goals … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NICE Guidelines, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Unmet Needs: Inadequate Help for the Elderly Living at Home (BBC News / Independent Age / Strategic Society Centre)
Summary A report from the charity Independent Age and the Strategic Society Centre think tank presents statistical findings about how over two million older people in England struggle to cope in their own homes, due to difficulties with basic tasks … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, 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, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Health and Social Care Support, Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), Activities of Daily Living Impairments, Activities of Daily Living Scale, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Eligibility Threshold, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care in England, Assessments and Eligibility, BBC Health News, Benchmarking, Cap on Care Costs, Care Account, Care Act, Care Act 2014, Care Act: Mapping Identifying and Engaging Older Population Groups, Care Costs: Cap and Means Test, Care Funding, Census 2011, Commissioning of Domiciliary Care, Disability and Home Care in England’s Older Population, Domiciliary Care, Eligibility, Eligibility Criteria for Social Care, Eligibility for Care, ELSA, ELSA: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, English Local Authorities, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), Estimating Eligible Need After the Care Act, Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) Eligibility Criteria, Financial Constraints, Financial Eligibility, Financial Eligibility and Means Test After 2016, Financial Issues, Financial Pressures, Help for Elderly Living at Home, Home Care, Home Care Funding and Costs, Home Care Organisations, Home Care Packages (HCP), Home Care Services, Home Care Standards, Home Care Support, Home Care: Commissioning, Implementing the Care Act: Mapping and Benchmarking the Older Population, Independent Age, Individual Care Plans (Complex Needs), Integrated Commissioning, Local Authorities, Local Care Providers, Local Service Providers, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Lower and Upper Capital Limits, Means Test, National Eligibility Threshold, National Minimum Eligibility Threshold, National Minimum Eligibility Threshold for Adult Care and Support, Older People With Complex Needs, Preventative Care, Preventative Interventions, Preventative Services, Publicly Funded Support, Short Care Visits, Social Care Providers, Social Isolation, Strategic Society Centre, Support for People with Complex Needs, The Bigger Picture, Unmet Needs
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Commissioning Home Care for Older People Guide (SCIE)
Summary Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s “Commissioning Home Care for Older People” guide has been designed to help commissioners improve the assessment, planning, contracting and monitoring of home care services for older people with complex needs. This guide may also … Continue reading →
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