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Category Archives: Care homes
Find me good care
Social Care Institute for Excellence has launched a new service called ‘Find Me Good Care’, to help people find good care in response to research that reveals many people are mystified by the care system. Read more »
Creating a dementia-friendly city
Findings from the York Dementia Without Walls project which explored how to make York a good place to live for people with dementia and their carers. Read more »
Dementia-friendly virtual care home
The Dementia Services Development Centre’s virtual care home has been shortlisted in the ‘Improving care with technology’ category in the Health Service Journal Awards. Read more »
Delivering personalised support for people living with dementia
Details of a recently published self-assessment tool for managers to use with their staff to check how they are doing in delivering personalised support for people with dementia. Read more »
The role of housing providers in improving the diagnosis of dementia
The Alzheimer’s Society recent report, Home truths, highlighted the lack of focus on housing and dementia and recognised the importance of trained housing staff, who understand dementia and can support families by providing information and advice on local services and housing options. Read more »
Reducing inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics in care homes
Presentations on projects underway to reduce the inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics in care homes. Read more »
Direct payments in residential care
The Law Commission recently recommended expanding direct payments to residential care, and the Department of Health has chosen to explore this by supporting the development of ‘test sites’ in partnership with local authorities. Read more »
Training programme to reduce antipsychotic prescriptions in care homes
An Alzheimer’s Society training programme, supported by funding from the Department of Health and the HC-One care home group, is being rolled out to 150 care homes across the UK. Read more »
Dementia: workers and carers together
Skills for Care and Dementia UK have jointly published of a new guide designed exclusively for the social care workforce which aims to spread best practice in supporting family carers of people with dementia. Read more »
Responding to the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge in the South of England
Sir Ian Carruthers, OBE, Chief Executive of NHS South of England, recently wrote to Clinical Commissioning Group Chairs, Directors of Social Services and Primary Care Trust Cluster Chief Execeutives, outlining an ambitious programme of work for the South of England in response to the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge. Read more »
New designs to help people live well with dementia
The Design Council have launched five design concepts to help people with dementia and their carers live better, including: buddiband; ode; Dementia Dog; Grouple and Trading Times. Read more »
Give your views on improving the quality of nursing care
The independent Nursing and Care Quality Forum would like to hear your views on the quality of nursing and care, and how you think this could be improved. Read more »
Ourhealth: informing, supporting, connecting
By providing information on the services available and how these services are performing in the South West, the Ourhealth website helps patients and carers work with health and care professionals to improve their experiences and the experiences of others. Ourhealth will roll-out across the South of England by the end of December 2012, building on the pilot project in the South West. Read more »
New models of care for dementia
This report proposes a new understanding of the dementia journey and a revised model of care for dementia, aimed at improving experiences and outcomes, and informing service redesign and commissioning. Read more »
Care to Learn training programme
Care to Learn is the Introductory End of Life Care Training Programme from the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC). It is relevant to all staff caring for people at the end of life, in particular those working in care homes, housing organisations, other community settings and hospitals. Read more »
Delivering Dignity: Securing dignity in care for older people in hospitals and care homes
The recently published report from the Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People looks at the undignified care of older people in our hospitals and care homes and how this can be improved. Read more »
The End of Life Care in Advanced Dementia project
This 3 year project based in a 120-bedded Jewish Care nursing home offered extra training and support for care home staff looking after residents with advanced dementia. Read more »
Commissioning care homes: common safeguarding challenges
This guide, published by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, aims to identify the issues that commonly lead to safeguarding referrals from care homes. Read more »
Safeguarding adults at risk of harm: a legal guide for practitioners
This guide produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence is aimed primarily at practitioners working in various settings for organisations involved in safeguarding. It is intended to serve as a pointer to the law and to how it can be used. Read more »