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A suite of evaluation resources for Dementia Friendly Communities: Development and guidance for use
(2022-11-30)
Objectives: In the context of a growing number of dementia friendly communities (DFCs) globally, a need remains for robust evaluation, and for tools to capture relevant evidence. This paper reports the development of a ...
Models of Care and Relationships with Care Homes: Cross-Sectional Survey of English General Practices
(2022-11-10)
The Enhanced Health in Care Homes framework for England sets out standards for how primary care should work with care homes. How care home staff and General Practitioners work together and the quality of their working ...
Development of a core outcome set for the evaluation of interventions to prevent COVID-19 in care homes (COS-COVID-PCARE Study)
(2022-08-27)
Abstract: Background: People living in care homes have experienced devastating impact from COVID-19. As interventions to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 are developed and evaluated, there is an urgent need for researchers ...
General Practitioners’ Role in Advancing Practice in Care Homes: A Realist Review
(2022-07-04)
Background Despite recent focus on improving healthcare in care homes, it is unclear what role General Practitioners (GPs) should play. To provide evidence for future practice we set out to explore how GPs have been involved ...
Clinical and cost-effectiveness of a personalised health promotion intervention enabling independence in older people with mild frailty (‘HomeHealth’) compared to treatment as usual: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
(2022-06-04)
Background: Frailty is clinically associated with multiple adverse outcomes, including reduced quality of life and functioning, falls, hospitalisations, moves to long-term care and mortality. Health services commonly focus ...
Developing a minimum data set for older adult care homes in the UK: exploring the concept and defining early core principles
(2022-03-08)
Reforms to social care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in the UK and internationally, place data at the heart of proposed innovations and solutions. The principles are not well established of what constitutes core, ...
Contextual factors influencing complex intervention research processes in care homes: a systematic review and framework synthesis
(2022-03-01)
BACKGROUND: Care homes are complex settings to undertake intervention research. Barriers to research implementation processes can threaten studies' validity, reducing the value to residents, staff, researchers and funders. ...
Using video consultation technology between care homes and health and social care professionals: a scoping review and interview study during COVID-19 pandemic
(2022-02-02)
Background the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected care home residents’ and staffs’ access to health care and advice. Health and social care professionals adapted rapidly to using video consultation (videoconferencing) ...
Dementia Friendly Communities: The Involvement of People Living with Dementia
(2022-01-28)
Background Dementia Friendly Communities (DFCs) offer an approach to community engagement to improve the lives of people living with dementia and their family supporters. The involvement of those living with dementia is ...
The uptake and use of a minimum data set (MDS) for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review
(2022-01-07)
Abstract: Background: Care homes provide long term care for older people. Countries with standardised approaches to residents’ assessment, care planning and review (known as minimum data sets (MDS)) use the aggregate data ...