...Vanessa Davey; Janice Healey; Jennifer Liddle; Bryony Beresford; Stacey Rand; Claire Goodman; Karen Spilsbury; Barbara Hanratty Purpose Mandatory digital social care records and a standardised schedule for collecting information on home care clients are proposed for regulated adult social care...

..., 2021b). Therefore, government expenditure on the home care sector is likely to rapidly expand in the coming decades as more older adults choose to remain cared for and supported at home (Aged Care Financing Authority, 2021). In spite of the overwhelming preference of the vast majority of older adults...

...Sue Davies; Jane Hughes; Karen Davies; Elizabeth Dalgarno; Rowan Elaine Jasper; Helen Chester; Amy Roberts; David Challis Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine changes in the nature, form and range of commissioning arrangements for home care. Design/methodology/approach Data from two...

...Josie Evans; Karen Methven; Nicola Cunningham Purpose As part of a pilot studyassessing the feasibility of record-linking health and social care data, the purpose of this paper is to examine patterns of non-delivery of home care among older clients (>65 years) of a social home care provider...

... the health care infrastructure of home care. Originality/value Apart from the rural context, the study was innovative at many levels. Specifically, this intervention addressed a significant health issue (functional capacity, falls and injuries), involved frail rural seniors (often hard to reach through...

... and NHS to produce accessible information about the subject of continence and locate it in places where PAs and other home care workers meet or visit regularly (such as details of the Alzheimer’s Society’s factsheets www.alzheimers.org.uk/info/20029/daily_living/13/toilet_problems_and_continence...

.... The focus of enquiry was home care provision. Design/methodology/approach A multi-method approach was adopted for this pilot study. A literature review identified key characteristics of home care for dementia. This informed consultations with lay representatives. Key attributes of home care for the DCE...

.... task focus, relation focus, involvement, time-use, body language, autonomy, respect, warmth, encouragement, and information) in two elderly care settings, i.e. home care and nursing home. Observations added up to 45 hours. Findings – Principal component analyses confirmed the proposed two-factor...

...Parvaneh Rabiee; Caroline Glendinning Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report the experiences of older people who use council-managed personal budgets (PBs) to fund home care services and their satisfaction with the level of choice and control they are able to exercise. Design...

...Peter Elwood; Mark Llewellyn; Marcus Longley; Paul Jarvis; Tony Garthwaite Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of a comprehensive and independent study of 1,029 older people who receive home care in Wales. The study aims to expand knowledge on the views of older people...

... alternatives (Alternatives) program in Utah was $3,884 per client (UDHHS, 2008). The average cost per year for a client in the Medicaid Aging Waiver program in Utah was $4,968 in 2006 compared to state nursing home care, which costs $29,946 per client in 2006 (UDHHS, 2008). Historically, the majority...

... the key to understanding the curious behaviour and therefore dealing with it (Stokes, 2008). Barbara Pointon can be contacted at: Barbara@pointon.name © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Mental health Carers Home care Interpersonal relations Alzheimer's disease Holistic care...

...Charles Patmore Twenty‐three home care providers were interviewed concerning what promotes or impedes quality aspects of service giving, as defined by older customers ‐ like service from familiar staff or flexible help. The influence of Social Services purchasers and of structures for purchasing...

...Rolf Rønning This article is about the implications of the different uses of the concept of care in the research and debate on home care. It can be read as a comment on the British debate, seen with Norwegian eyes, and from a starting point where care is a positively loaded concept. The article...

... individuals.Assisted by the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU), a team of social services managers conducted a programme of interviews designed to obtain the views of very old, frail home care clients about their services and their lives in general. A few interviewees expressed very low morale and this seemed...

...Charles Patmore This article presents evidence for important individual differences between older people concerning what they value as high quality service from home care. A case is made for improving service quality through systematically consulting each service user about their own preferences...

...Lesley Bell More and more people are receiving care while living in their own homes, a far greater number than are in residential and nursing home care, and in some cases with more complex needs. Yet there persists an image of home care as a very basic activity needing little or no training...