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Can district nurses and care home staff improve bowel care for older people using a clinical benchmarking tool?
(2013-12)
A quasi-experimental study tested a clinical benchmarking tool (Essence of Care) to improve bowel-related care for older people living in six care homes. In the intervention care homes, district nurses and care home staff ...
The effectiveness of inter-professional working for older people living in the community : A systematic review
(2013)
Health and social care policy in the UK advocates inter-professional working (IPW) to support older people with complex and multiple needs. Whilst there is a growing understanding of what supports IPW, there is a lack of ...
A protocol for a systematic review of research on managing behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia for community-dwelling older people
(2013)
Background:Non-cognitive behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia affect up to 90% of people with dementia at some point in the disease course and result in distress, increased carer burden, high service utilization ...
Integrated working between residential care homes and primary care : a survey of care homes in England
(2012-11-14)
Older people living in care homes in England have complex health needs due to a range of medical conditions, mental health needs and frailty. Despite an increasing policy expectation that professionals should operate in ...
Nurse-led case management in the National Health Service : bridging clinical and social worlds
(2012)
To understand the effects of Nurse Case Managers (NCMs) working in primary care in the English National Health Service (NHS) from multiple perspectives and how this new role impacts on social workers, this paper reports ...
Nurse case management and general practice : implications for GP consortia
(2011-10)
Reducing hospital admission rates by nurse-led case management (community matrons) is attractive in theory but in practice is challenging for a range of reasons that need to be understood in commissioning similar services ...
Frailty scales - their potential in interprofessional working with older people: a discussion paper
(2011-07)
New models of interprofessional working are continuously being proposed to address the burgeoning health and social care needs of older people with complex and long-term health conditions. Evaluations of the effectiveness ...
A systematic review of integrated working between care homes and health care services
(2011)
In the UK there are almost three times as many beds in care homes as in National Health Service (NHS) hospitals. Care homes rely on primary health care for access to medical care and specialist services. Repeated policy ...
Talking about living and dying with the oldest old : public involvement in a study on end of life care in care homes.
(2011)
Public involvement in research on sensitive subjects, such as death and dying, can help to ensure that questions are framed to reflect the interests of their peers, develop a shared understanding of issues raised, and ...