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Living in Uncertain Times: trajectories to death in residential care homes
(2014-09-01)
Abstract Background Older people living in care homes often have limited life expectancy. Practitioners and policymakers are increasingly questioning the appropriateness of many acute hospital admissions and the quality ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Models of Inter Professional Working for older people living at home : a survey and review of the local strategies of English health and social care statutory organisations
(2011)
BACKGROUND: Most services provided by health and social care organisations for older people living at home rely on interprofessional working (IPW). Although there is research investigating what supports and inhibits how ...