...Sarah Ruaux; Neil Chadborn Neil Chadborn can be contacted at: neil.chadborn@nottingham.ac.uk Trainees received no specific training on working with care homes. Exposure to the care home setting was variable, and could be negligible, depending on the GP practice placement. Senior GPs...

...). Five types of Vanguard were established: Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs); Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS); Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH); Urgent and Emergency Care networks (UEC); and Acute Care Collaborations (ACCs). At its' outset, the Vanguard programme emphasised...

... controlled trial of Recuperative Care versus standard NHS hospital rehabilitation. Recuperative Care is rehabilitation in a residential care home with no on‐site medical or nursing staff. A daily programme of exercises and activities to improve independence is provided by two in‐house occupational therapists...

...Karim Hadjri; Verity Faith; Maria McManus Purpose This study seeks to appraise the design of nursing and residential care homes for people with dementia in Northern Ireland using the design audit checklist developed by the Dementia Services Development Centre – DSDC. Design/methodology/approach...

... this category, some of the principal examples being as follows: Ed Mitchell can be contacted at: Mitchell.edward9@googlemail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Maladministration Care commissioning Continuing care Care homes Domiciliary care agencies Ombudsman Duty of care...

... with Dementia Living in a Care Home Catherine Evans Claire Goodman ON BEHALF OF THE EVIDEM TEAM, UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE, CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN PRIMARY AND COMMUNITY CARE ABSTRACT The second in a new series about mental health in old age, this article reviews policies and research evidence on services...

...John Dow ‘NHS bodies who run care homes or domiciliary agencies must immediately seek to register their services with CSCI’. This was the first of a number of national recommendations in a report by the Healthcare Commission last year following an investigation into services for people...

...Derek Ward; Martin Severs; Tara Dean The continued expansion of the intermediate care initiative has resulted in the use of alternative care settings, such as nursing and care homes, for the delivery of rehabilitative interventions for older people. In this paper, we report on the findings from...

... programme to investigate the extent of the use of care home environments for the rehabilitation of older people in England. Stage two of the project will explore in more depth the characteristics of the rehabilitation provision identified in stage one. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Rehabilitation Older...