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Outcome measures from international older adult care home intervention research: a scoping review
(2023-05-16)
Background Care homes are increasingly important settings for intervention research to enhance evidence-informed care. For such research to demonstrate effectiveness, it is essential that measures are appropriate for the ...
Provision of palliative and end-of-life care in UK care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed methods observational study with implications for policy
(2023-03-14)
Introduction: Little consideration has been given to how the provision of palliative and end-of-life care in care homes was affected by COVID-19. The aims of this study were to: (i) investigate the response of UK care homes ...
Piloting of a minimum data set for older people living in care homes in England: protocol for a longitudinal, mixed-methods study
(2023-02-27)
Introduction: Health and care data are routinely collected about care home residents in England, yet there is no way to collate these data to inform benchmarking and improvement. The Developing research resources And minimum ...
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 ...
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 ...
Commentary: COVID in care homes—challenges and dilemmas in healthcare delivery
(2020-09-01)
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected care home residents internationally, with 19–72% of COVID-19 deaths occurring in care homes. COVID-19 presents atypically in care home residents and up to 56% of residents ...
The impact of dementia on service use by individuals with a comorbid health condition: a comparison of two cross-sectional analyses conducted approximately ten-years apart
(2018-07-24)
Background The presence of concomitant medical conditions in people with dementia is common. Dementia may be related to differential use of health, social and informal care. Methods Data from two large UK population-based ...
Difference between how ambulance service personnel use paper and electronic patient care records when attending older people at home
(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 ...
Incontinence : enhancing care in women's prisons
(2011)
There is no evidence on the prevalence of urinary and faecal incontinence symptoms in women prisoners.