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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Services for older people"”.
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Creating sustainable home care services for older people
… substantial increases in expenditure and demand for home care services. However, provision of home care is fraught with quality issues such as high staff turnover rates, inadequate staff training, a lack of coordinator support and reduced continuity of care. Consequently, ensuring the …
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Evaluating the quality of care within residential services for older people
The quality of care within residential services for older people has been a source of concern within health and social care for some time. Several attempts have been made to develop a means of assessing the quality of care; however, the nature and quality of these varies enormously. The Quest …
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An interpretive descriptive study: the exploration of the determinants influencing the use and provision of services for older people with functional mental illness.
… influencing the use and provision of services for older people with functional mental illness (FMI). The prevalence of FMI (i.e. illnesses such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorder and anxiety disorders) in older adults is notable; however, it has …
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Critical systems thinking, theory and practice : a case study of an intervention in two British local authorities
This thesis reports an intervention informed by critical systems thinking. The intervention drew upon a variety of systems and operational research methods to systemically explore the problems facing housing services for older people. Stakeholders were then supported in developing a response to …
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Statistical issues in service evaluation – a case of intermediate care
… that are commonly associated with evaluations of services for older people with a view to establishing the most appropriate methods of addressing them. This goal was achieved in two stages. In the first stage, a comprehensive literature review of studies that have reported such evaluations on …
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Befriending the elderly: using the free association narrative interview technique and psychoanalytic concept of countertransference to explore the befriending experience
… on the physical and psychological health of older adults living in the UK, impacting not only on their quality of life, but on society as a whole through increased use of health services. There is a movement, however, that is committed to alleviating loneliness in older adults through …
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A Retrospective Study of Fall Prevention Programs in Geriatric Nursing Facilities
… Present, Medicaid reimbursement, proprietary for-profit geriatric nursing facility ownership, physical and chemical restraint use, and resident acuity. A four page survey tool was mailed to 327 Directors of Nursing who are members of a State Health Care Association, with 51 returning the …
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Investigating patient centered care in an acute older adult ward - a qualitative study
… investigates patient centred care on an acute older persons' unit in a NHSTrust in the UK. It uses a method based on grounded theory, integrated with anethnographic approach to examine the knowledge, beliefs and behaviour of staffworking on an acute older persons' unit regarding patient centred …