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Tag Archives: Living at Home
Potential Harms From Polypharmacy in the Elderly (BBC News / Age UK / EJCP / Bazian / Lancet Psychiatry)
Summary An Age UK report investigates the potential harms of over-prescribing medicines for older people. Older persons often remain on too many prescribed medicines, putting them at risk of side-effects, potentially resulting in falls and other forms of serious harm. … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Antipsychotics, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Hypertension, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Achieving Better Value, Addictions Department - Division of Academic Psychiatry: King's College London, Addictive Prescription Medicines, Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs), Adverse Drug Reactions in the Elderly, Ageing Population, Alcohol Drugs Tobacco and Justice Division: Public Health England, AntiCholinergic Burden, Anticholinergic Drugs, Anticholinergics, Antidepressants, Anxiolytics and Hypnotics (Including Benzodiazepines), ARMOUR Tool, Australian Prescribing Indicators, Austrian Criteria, Barenholtz Levy, Bazian, BBC Health News, Beers Criteria, Behind the Headlines, Benzodiazepines, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Brown Model, Cantrill Indicators, Care Home Pharmacists, Care Home Pharmacists to Cut Overmedication, Care Homes, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Care of Older People Living at Home, Care of Older People Living in Care Homes, Care Planning: Relating New Prescribing Decisions to Existing Medicines, Care Quality 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Medicines (FOMM) Support Service, Frail Older People, Frailty, Gabapentinoids, Geriatric Medication Algorithm, German PRISCUS List of Potentially Inappropriate Medications, Good Practice in Care Homes, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Hamdy Criteria, Hanoi Medical University, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Health Improvement Directorate: Public Health England, High Quality Medicines Reviews, Holmes Criteria, Hospital Pharmacists, Hospital‑Based Multidisciplinary Teams: Pharmacists, Hull-York Medical School: University of Hull, Imperial College London, Improving Care for Frail Older People, Improving Patient Safety, Improving Pharmaceutical Care in Care Homes, Improving Prescribing in the Elderly Tool, Improving Prescribing Practice, Improving Standards in Care Homes, Inappropriate Drug Use, Inappropriate Medication, Inappropriate Prescribing, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience: King’s College London, Integrated Care Clinical Pharmacist (ICP) for Frail Older People, Integrated Care Pharmacists (ICPs), Kaiser Permanente Model, Kings College London, KPC Criteria, Lambeth Addictions: South London and Maudsley NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust, Lancet Psychiatry, Laroche Criteria, Later Life, Lechevallier Criteria, Less is More, Liaison and In-Reach Services for Frail Older People, Lindblad’s List, Lipton’s Tool, Living at Home, Living Well in Care Homes, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Lowering Costs, Maio Criteria, Malnutrition, Malnutrition in Later Life, Malone’s List, Management of Challenging Behaviour, Managing Comorbidity and Complexity, Managing Medicines in Care Homes, Matsumura Alert System, McLeod Criteria, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medical Overuse, Medication Adherence, Medication Appropriateness Index, Medication Creep, Medication Nonadherence, Medication Reviews, Medication Reviews in Care Homes, Medication Without Harm (WHO), Medication-Related Harm, Medications Management Outcome Monitor, Medicine Combinations, Medicines Management, Multi-Morbidities, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, Multiple Comorbidities, Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Multiple Medications (Polypharmacy), National Guideline Centre: Royal College of Physicians, NCOA Criteria, New Mexico Criteria, NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), NHS Community Pharmacies, Non-Adherence: Medication-Related Harm, Norwegian General Practice (NORGEP) Criteria, Oborne’s Prescribing Indicators, Older Adults Higher Levels of Dependency Dementia and Comorbidity, Older People, Older People Supported and Involved in Decisions About Medicines, Older People With Complex Needs, Older People's Care, Opioid Painkillers, Opioids, Optimising Prescribing and Deprescribing in Older Adults, Over-Medication, Over-Prescribing, Over-Treatment, Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment, Overmedicalization, Overmedicaton in Care Homes, Overprescribing, Overprescription, Overuse of Medication, Owen’s Steps, Patient Harms, Patient Preference and Adherence, Patient 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Prevalence of Visual Impairment in People with Dementia: the PrOVIDe Study (NIHR)
Summary The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)’s Prevalence of Visual Impairment in People with Dementia (PrOVIDe) study investigated the prevalence of visual impairment in people with dementia, and addressed possible reasons behind any under-detection or inappropriate management of vision … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NIHR, NIHRSDO, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Loneliness at Christmas Associated With Expected Increases in Accident and Emergency Admissionss (BBC News / NHS England / Department of Health)
Summary Members of the public have been urged to keep an eye on elderly friends and neighbours over the Christmas period. It is hoped that good neighbourliness of this kind could help ease pressures on hospital A&E departments. It has … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, 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, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Integrated Care for People with Complex Chronic Conditions: Research Summary (King’s Fund)
Summary This King’s Fund report summarises the findings from a 2-year research project (funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation) which involved looking at five UK-based programmes delivering coordinated care for people with long-term and complex needs. The aim has … Continue reading →
Posted in 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), Integrated Care, International, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged Advanced Practice Nurse (APN), Advice and Support, Aetna (US), Aetna Foundation, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Assigned Accountability, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Better Understanding of Dementia for Sandwell (BUDS), Bexley, Bexley Advanced Dementia Care At Home Project, BUDS: Better Understanding of Dementia for Sandwell, Burden on Caregivers, Care Closer to Home Project, Care Co-ordination, Care Coordinators, Care Integration, Care Pathway, Care Plan, Care Planning, Caregiver Distress, Caregiver Support, Carer Assessment, Carer Burden in Dementia, Carer Education, Carer Resilience, Carer Support, Case Finding, Chronic Conditions Nurse Practitioners (CCNPs), Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS), Co-Production, Community Care, Community Mental Health Services, Community Mental Health Teams, Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN), Community Resource Teams (CRTs), Community Resource Teams in Pembrokeshire, Community Support, Community Support Services, Community-Based End of Life Nurse, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Palliative Care Service, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Continuing Care, Continuing Care Services in the Community, Coordinated Care, Core 10 (Assessment Tool), Core 10 and WEMWBS, Core-OM, Corenet Software, Cost Analysis, Cost Savings, Cost-Effectiveness, Costs, Counselling Services, Deaths in Usual Place of Residence (DiUPR), Dementia Liaison Services, Dementia Nurse Specialist, Dementia Specialist End of Life Nurse, Dementia Support Services, DiUPR: Deaths in Usual Place of Residence, Dying at Home, End of Life Care, End of Life Care Plans, End-of-Life Care at Home, EOL, Esteem Team: Sandwell, Experiences, Family Support, Functional Integration, Gold Standards Framework (GSF), GPs, Greenwich, Greenwich Advanced Dementia Service (GADS), Greenwich and Bexley, Hampshire, Health and Social Care Integration, Healthcare at Home, Holistic Approaches, Holistic Care Assessments, Holistic Co-ordinated Care, Home Support, Hospice at Home, Hospital at Home, Hywel Dda Health Board, IAPT Programme, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme, Information and Advice Services, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Care Coordinators, Integrated Services, Integrated Services Across Local Authorities, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, Liaison Services, Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP), Living at Home, Local Partnerships, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Macmillan Cancer Support, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Mental Health Liaison Services, Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, Midhurst Macmillan Service, Midhurst Macmillan Service Referral and Discharge, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multidisciplinary Specialist Teams, Multidisciplinary Team Care, Multidisciplinary Teams, Multiple Referrals to a Single Entry Point, NHS Continuing Care, NHS Electronic Patient Records, NHS West Midlands, Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Oxleas Service Model, Palliative and End-of-Life Care at Home, Palliative Care, Partnership, Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Patient Experience, Patient Focus, Patient Involvement, Pembrokeshire County Council, Personalised Care Planning, Personalised Care Plans, Preferred Place of Death, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care, Projecting Older People Population Information, Psychiatric Liaison Services, QUALID: Quality of Life in Late Stage Dementia, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Reducing Admissions to Nursing Care, Reducing Admissions to Residential Care, Reducing Re-Admissions NHS Hospitals, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Referrals, Relationship Building, Relative Stress Scale (RSS), Resilience, Responsive Provider Networks, Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group, Sandwell Esteem Team, Sandwell Integrated Primary Care Mental Health and Wellbeing Service, Sandwell Wellbeing Hub, Sandwell: West Midlands, Service Integration, Social Services, Specialist Palliative Care, Split Care Assessment and Co-ordination Functions, Standardised Referral Form, Staying at Home, Staying Put, Stepped Care Approach, Stress Reduction, Stress Reduction for Unpaid Family Carers, Support for Carers, Support for People with Complex Needs, Support Networks, Support Workers, Supportive Care, Surrey, Sussex Community Trust, Team Culture, Team Working, Teams, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, User Experience, Volunteers, Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS), West Midlands, West Sussex
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Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service (King’s Fund)
Summary The King’s Fund (funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation) is releasing a series of five case studies examining co-ordinated care for people with complex chronic conditions. New approaches to care co-ordination in primary care settings are investigated, across … Continue reading →
Posted in 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), Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Advanced Practice Nurse (APN), Advice and Support, Aetna (US), Aetna Foundation, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Bexley, Bexley Advanced Dementia Care At Home Project, Burden on Caregivers, Care Co-ordination, Care Coordinators, Care Integration, Care Plan, Care Planning, Caregiver Distress, Caregiver Support, Carer Assessment, Carer Burden in Dementia, Carer Education, Carer Resilience, Carer Support, Case Finding, Community Mental Health Services, Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN), Community Support Services, Community-Based Palliative Care Service, Complex Chronic Conditions, Coordinated Care, Cost Analysis, Cost Savings, Cost-Effectiveness, Costs, Deaths in Usual Place of Residence (DiUPR), Dementia Liaison Services, Dementia Nurse Specialist, Dementia Specialist End of Life Nurse, Dementia Support Services, DiUPR: Deaths in Usual Place of Residence, Dying at Home, End of Life Care Plans, Family Support, Functional Integration, GPs, Greenwich, Greenwich Advanced Dementia Service (GADS), Greenwich and Bexley, Healthcare at Home, Holistic Care Assessments, Home Support, Hospice at Home, Hospital at Home, Information and Advice Services, Integrated Care Coordinators, Integrated Services, Integrated Services Across Local Authorities, Integration, Liaison Services, Living at Home, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Multidisciplinary Specialist Teams, Multidisciplinary Team Care, Multidisciplinary Teams, Multiple Referrals to a Single Entry Point, NHS Electronic Patient Records, Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Oxleas Service Model, Palliative Care, Personalised Care Planning, Personalised Care Plans, Preferred Place of Death, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Projecting Older People Population Information, QUALID: Quality of Life in Late Stage Dementia, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Reducing Admissions to Nursing Care, Reducing Admissions to Residential Care, Reducing Re-Admissions NHS Hospitals, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Referrals, Relationship Building, Relative Stress Scale (RSS), Resilience, Service Integration, Social Services, Specialist Palliative Care, Split Care Assessment and Co-ordination Functions, Standardised Referral Form, Staying at Home, Stress Reduction, Stress Reduction for Unpaid Family Carers, Support for Carers, Support for People with Complex Needs, Support Networks, Support Workers, Supportive Care, Team Culture, Team Working, Teams, Unplanned Hospital Admissions
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Dementia and Visual Impairment: ADS Research Project, Participants Invited (DAA / ADS)
Summary The Association for Dementia Studies (ADS) at the University of Worcester is working on a research project investigating the needs of people with dementia and impaired sight who live in housing settings other than care homes. The researchers are … Continue reading →
Posted in Community Care, Dementia Action Alliance, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Proposed for Next Newsletter, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged ADS, Adult Social Care for People with Complex Needs, Association for Dementia Studies, Bournemouth University Dementia Institute, BUDI: Bournemouth University Dementia Institute, Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR), Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research: Cambridge University, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Centre for Housing Policy (CHP), Centre for Housing Policy: University of York, Complex Needs, Dementia Action Alliance (DAA), Dementia Action Alliance Newsletters, Dementia and Impaired Sight, Dementia and Sight Loss, Dementia and Sight Loss Interest Group, Dementia and Sight Loss Project, Extra Care Housing, Eyesight, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Housing and Dementia Research Consortium, Impaired Sight, Independent Living, Independent Living At Home, Living at Home, NIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR), Poor Eyesight, Sensory Loss, Sheltered Housing Schemes, Sight Loss, Staying at Home, Support for People with Complex Needs, Thomas Pocklington Trust, University of Bournemouth, University of Cambridge, University of Worcester, University of Worcester: Association for Dementia Studies, University of York, Vision Care, Visual Impairment, West Midlands, Worcester University
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Neighbourhood Watch Groups Could Provide Care for Elderly? (Telegraph / BBC News)
Summary Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb has spoken about Britain’s attitude to the elderly being “uncivilised” and called for the public to acknowledge that lonely and vulnerable pensioners living locally may be in need of help. Norman Lamb would like to encourage neighbourhood watch groups to … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, 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, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Any Qualified Provider (AQP), Care at Home, Co-operative Community Action, Commissioning of Domiciliary Care, Community, Community Action, Community Assets, Community Capacity, Community Care, Community Groups, Community Life, Community Networks, Community Partners, Community Personal Support, Community Support, Companionship, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Domiciliary Care, Friendship, Generic Domiciliary Care Services, Good Neighbourliness, Help to Live at Home, Home Care, Home Care Support, Home Carers, Home Watch Network, Independence, Independent Living, Independent Sector, Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb: Former Health Minister (Coalition Government), Living at Home, Loneliness, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Neighbourhood Watch, Neighbourhood Watch Groups, Neighbourliness, Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), Preventing Loneliness, Residents’ Groups, Social Isolation, Social Networks, Staying at Home, Support Networks, Voluntary and Community Action
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Five Hours a Day: Systemic Innovation for an Ageing Population (NESTA)
Summary This report explores the impact of ageing on society and what this might mean in terms of innovation. Nesta proposes taking a systematic look at how people live in the context of changing demographics, looking especially at issues which … Continue reading →
Posted in Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), International, National, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Active Involvement Groups, Adult Social Care Funding, Age and Ageing, Ageing, Ageism, Aging, Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI), Care at Home, Care Funding, Care Integration, Care4Care, Cultural Innovation:, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Time-Bomb, Demographics, Diffusion of Innovation, Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Ageing, Economic Modelling, Economic Questions, Economic Sustainability, Encore Careers: USA, Fairer Care Funding, Five Hours a Day, Funding of Care and Support, Funding Reform, Future Funding Models, Future Health, Future Healthcare, Future Long-Term Care Costs, Future Social Care, Future Trends, Future Trends Analysis, General Housing, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Costs, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Services, Health Care Reform, Health Economics, Health Reform, Healthy Life Expectancy, Home Care, Housing, Housing for Older People, Housing Policy, Impact of Demographic Change on Public Services, Independent Living, Independent Living At Home, Innovation, Innovation for an Ageing Population, Innovation Infrastructure, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integrating Outcomes, Integration, Integration of Housing Care and Support, Intergenerational Relations, Lack of Preparedness for Ageing, Life Expectancy, Living at Home, Living Room, Market Innovation, Meals with Mates: Australia, Men in Sheds, Men in Sheds: Australia, National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA), NESTA, NHS Reform, Non-Involvement, People Powered Health (NESTA), People Powered Health Programme, Personal Finances, Planning for Life, Policy Innovation, Political Innovation, Product and Service Innovation, Public Health Reform, Public Service Reform, Purposeful Work, Reform, Retirement Housing, Shared Lives Plus: UK, Social Care Funding, Social Care Reform, Social Demographics, Social Economics, Social Housing, Social Policy and Society, Social Prescribing: UK, Staying at Home, Staying Independent, Sustainable Funding, Systematic Experimentation, The Amazings: UK, The Current NHS Model is Outdated, The Experience Corps: USA, Tyze Personal Networks: Canada and UK, Whole Systems Redesign, Working for Longer
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Ready for Ageing? (House of Lords Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change)
Summary A recent report from the Select Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change warns that Government and society at large are unprepared for ageing. A broad range of policy areas are addressed, with comprehensive analyses of the potential impact … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Patient Care Pathway, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adult Social Care Funding, Age and Ageing, Ageing, Ageism, Aging, Baroness Sally Greengross (APPG on Dementia), Care at Home, Care Funding, Care Integration, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Time-Bomb, Demographics, Dying at Home, Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Ageing, Economic Modelling, Economic Questions, Economic Sustainability, Extra Care Housing, Fairer Care Funding, Funding of Care and Support, Funding Reform, Future Funding Models, Future Health, Future Healthcare, Future Long-Term Care Costs, Future Social Care, Future Trends, Future Trends Analysis, General Housing, Good Practice Standards, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Costs, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Services, Health Care Reform, Health Economics, Health Reform, Healthcare at Home, Healthy Life Expectancy, Home Care, House of Lords Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change, Housing for Older People, Housing Policy, Housing Providers, Housing21, Impact of Demographic Change on Public Services, Independent Living, Independent Living At Home, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integrating Outcomes, Integration, Integration of Housing Care and Support, Intergenerational Cohesion, Intergenerational Fairness, Intergenerational Mingling, Intergenerational Relations, Intergenerational Solidarity, International Longevity Centre, Lack of Preparedness for Ageing, Life Expectancy, Living at Home, NHS Reform, Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), Office for National Statistics, Office for National Statistics (ONS), ONS, Pensions and Savings, Personal Finances, Public Health Funding, Public Health Reform, Public Service Reform, Reform, Retirement Housing, Social Care Funding, Social Care Reform, Social Demographics, Social Economics, Social Housing, Social Policy and Society, Staying at Home, Staying Independent, Sustainable Funding, The Current NHS Model is Outdated, Unpreparedness for Ageing, Working for Longer
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CQC Inspections to Target Poor Home Care (Department of Health Media Centre)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 5, December 2011]. Summary On November 22nd the Care Services Minister Paul Burstow praised the Care Quality Commission’s announcement that it has planned a programme of … Continue reading →
Posted in Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Care at Home, Care Quality Commission, Former Care Services Minister Paul Burstow, Home and Community Care Services, Home Care Standards, Living at Home, Paul Burstow (Former Care Services Minister)
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