Jill Manthorpe discusses a qualitative study which examines the experiences of frontline workers in care homes and home care
[read the full story...]Telling the tale: working in social care during the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020
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Voices of people living with dementia and their carers on the closure of support services during COVID-19
Caroline Green discusses a qualitative study which considers the effects of COVID-19 on social support services for people with dementia.
[read the full story...]Do nurses and social workers AMHPs make similar decisions in Mental Health Assessments?
Martin Stevens reviews a study by Kevin Stone, which compares the decision-making of nurse and social worker Approved Mental Health Practitioners (AMHPs) undertaking Mental Health Assessments.
[read the full story...]Older people’s decisions about extra-care housing
Kate Baxter discusses a paper by Hillcoat-Nallétamby about the limitations of rational choice theory as an approach to understanding choice-making processes among older people around the decision to move into extra-care housing schemes.
[read the full story...]Social Care in Northern Ireland – not as different as you might think
Catherine Needham reviews a study by Chapman (2019) which considers older people’s knowledge and understanding of the social care system in Northern Ireland.
[read the full story...]The role of ICT in Ageing in Place: a family matter
Jacqueline Damant considers a qualitative study looking at the experiences of older people and their support networks in using ICT to support Ageing in Place.
[read the full story...]The complexity of daily living for people with Acquired Brain Injury
Andy Mantell reviews a study by Giles and colleagues (2018), looking at the interrelationship between ‘activities of daily living’ (ADLs) and ‘instrumental activities of daily living’ (IADLs), among people living in the community, following moderate to severe traumatic brain injury.
[read the full story...]The costs of care prior to institutionalisation among people living with Alzheimer’s disease
The past few decades have seen a gradual shift of provision of services for older people from residential care to community-based care in the UK and other high-income countries. ‘Ageing in place’ is a widely accepted and supported discourse. In practice, receiving care at home enables older people to stay in a familiar environment, and [read the full story…]
A ‘temperature check’ survey of local authority staff about implementing Making Safeguarding Personal
Caroline Norrie’s blog considers findings from a telephone survey of local authority staff in England about progress implementing the ‘Making Safeguarding Personal’ approach.
[read the full story...]Advance care planning in dementia nursing homes with family carers
Josie Dixon considers a paired-cluster randomised controlled trial of an advance care planning intervention, called the Family Carer Decision Support (FCDS) intervention, undertaken by Kevin Brazil and colleagues (2018) in dementia nursing homes.
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