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Difference between how ambulance service personnel use paper and electronic patient care records when attending older people at home
Buswell, Marina; Fleming, Jane; Lumbard, Philip; Prothero, Larissa S; Amador, Sarah; Goodman, Claire (2015-04-01)In the course of our study, Research into Older people with Dementia and their carers’ use of Emergency ambulance Services (RODES), we have noted a difference between how ambulance service personnel use paper-based as ... -
Emergency ambulance service involvement with residential care homes in the support of older people with dementia : an observational study
Amador, Sarah; Goodman, Claire; King, Derek; Machen, Ina; Elmore, Natasha; Mathie, Elspeth; Iliffe, Steve (2014-08-28)BACKGROUND: Older people resident in care homes have a limited life expectancy and approximately two-thirds have limited mental capacity. Despite initiatives to reduce unplanned hospital admissions for this population, ... -
End of life care interventions for people with dementia in care homes : addressing uncertainty within a framework for service delivery and evaluation
Goodman, Claire; Froggatt, Katherine; Amador, Sarah; Mathie, Elspeth; Mayrhofer, Andrea (2015-09-17)Methods: The data from three studies on EoL care in care homes: (i) EVIDEM EoL , (ii) EPOCH , and (iii) TTT EoL were used to inform the development of the framework. All used mixed method designs and two had an intervention ... -
Evaluation of an Organisational Intervention to Promote Integrated Working between Health Services and Care Homes in the Delivery of End-of-Life Care for People with Dementia : Understanding the Change Process Using a Social Identity Approach
Amador, Sarah; Goodman, Claire; Mathie, Elspeth; Nicholson, Caroline (2016-06-03)In the United Kingdom, approximately a third of people with dementia live in long-term care facilities for adults, the majority of whom are in the last years of life. Working arrangements between health services and care ... -
Evaluation of the End of Life Care Train the Trainer (TTT) Education Model
Goodman, Claire; Mayrhofer, Andrea; Handley, Melanie; Smeeton, N.C.; Amador, Sarah; Davies, Susan (University of Hertfordshire, 2014) -
Exploring resource use and associated costs in end-of-life care for older people with dementia in residential care homes
Amador, Sarah; Goodman, Claire; King, Derek; Ng, Yi Ting; Elmore, Natasha; Mathie, Elspeth; Machen, Ina; Knapp, Martin (2014-06-06)The goals of this study are to describe end-of-life care costs of older people with dementia (OPWD) residents in care homes (CHs) with no on-site nursing and evaluate the economic case for an intervention designed to improve ... -
The feasibility of a train-the-trainer approach to end of life care training in care homes: an evaluation
Mayrhofer, Andrea; Goodman, Claire; Smeeton, N.C.; Handley, Melanie; Amador, Sarah; Davies, Susan (2016-01-22)Background: The ABC End of Life Education Programme trained approximately 3000 care home staff in End of Life (EoL) care. An evaluation that compared this programme with the Gold Standards Framework found that it achieved ... -
Patterns of attendance of care home residents to an Emergency Department
Witt, Erik; Goodman, Claire; Banerjee, Ashis; Scott, Patricia; Amador, Sarah (2013-04) -
Potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people with dementia in care homes : a retrospective analysis
Parsons, Carole; Johnston, Sarah; Mathie, Elspeth; Baron, Natasha; Machen, Ina; Amador, Sarah; Goodman, Claire (2012-08-31)Background: Older people in general and care home residents in particular are at high risk of suboptimal or inappropriate prescribing. To date, research into potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) has not focused on ... -
Preferences and priorities for ongoing and end-of-life care : A qualitative study of older people with dementia resident in care homes
Amador, Sarah; Goodman, Claire; Mathie, Elspeth; Machen, Ina; Baron, Natasha (2013-12)Background: The older person with dementia has a limited life expectancy and the dying trajectory can be protracted and unpredictable. For good end-of-life care, early communication, exploration of residents’ wishes, and ... -
Sedative load of medications prescribed for older people with dementia in care homes
Parsons, Carole; Haydock, Jane; Mathie, Elspeth; Baron, Natasha; Machen, Ina; Stevenson, Elizabeth; Amador, Sarah; Goodman, Claire (2011)ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to determine the sedative load and use of sedative and psychotropic medications among older people with dementia living in (residential) care homes. METHODS: Medication ...