Martin Stevens considers the low uptake of direct payments in residential care: an evaluation of the Direct Payments in Residential Care Trailblazers.
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Emma Wincup and Katharine Sacks-Jones explore the findings of a recent qualitative study that asks: Do women with complex alcohol and other drug use histories want women-only residential treatment?
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Hilary Shepherd writes her debut blog on a new paper from the WHELD cluster RCT, which looks at the impact of antipsychotic review and psychosocial intervention on health-related quality of life in people with dementia living in care homes.
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Keir Harding explores a recent study of community-based, step-down, and residential specialist psychodynamic programmes for personality disorders, which includes some surprising findings.
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Mike Clark looks at a literature review and qualitative study of how handovers between staff are conducted in care homes.
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Jill Manthorpe discusses a qualitative study of care assistants experiences of looking after people with dementia in residential care.
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Mike Clark looks at a study of 12 different nursing homes on how quality of care is affected by financial cutbacks.
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Jill Manthorpe looks at a qualitative study of what motivates care workers and why care work matters to them.
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Clarissa Giebel reports on a systematic review and meta-analysis of factors predicting care placement of dementia sufferers into long-term care facilities.
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Clarissa Giebel analyses a qualitative study of how functional alterations impact quality of life in Alzheimer disease.
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