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“Safety at Home”: Experiences From Testing of Video Communication Between Patients and Home Health Care Personnel

SAGE Open, 2017
The implementation of welfare technology in Norwegian municipals is a governmental priority, but there is little research on transfer of technological solutions into regular health care services.
Linda Rykkje, Gunhild H. B. Hjorth
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Setting priorities to inform assessment of care homes’ readiness to participate in healthcare innovation: a systematic mapping review and consensus process [PDF]

, 2020
© 2020 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly citedOrganisational ...
Bunn, F., Corazzini, K., Dening, T., Goodman, C., Gordon, A. L., Handley, M., Lynch, J, Meyer, J., Sharpe, R.   +8 more
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Predicting Care Homes with Limited Residential Information

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2020
Introduction Research involving care homes is often difficult due to a lack of data and ethical issues. Wales (United Kingdom) contains approximately 1.3million residences, of these 717 are officially recorded as care homes for older people ...
Joe Hollinghurst, Ashley Akbari, Sarah E Rodgers, Ronan A Lyons, Alan Watkins, Richard Fry   +5 more
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Low COVID-19 Mortality in Old Age Homes in Western India: An empirical study

Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 2021
Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged as a public health crisis globally. Management of old age homes have been challenged during the ongoing pandemic crisis, as the elderlies are by far the most vulnerable population group in ...
Jallavi Panchamia, Bhavya Bhagat, Vishakha Bharati, Anushree Joshi, Dileep Mavalankar   +4 more
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Feeling in control: comparing older people’s experiences in different care settings [PDF]

, 2013
The promotion of choice and control for older people is a policy priority for social care services in the United Kingdom and is at the heart of recent drives to personalise services.
Callaghan, Lisa, Towers, Ann-Marie
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Protocol of the process evaluation of cluster randomised control trial for estimating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a complex intervention to increase care home staff influenza vaccination rates compared to usual practice (FluCare)

Trials, 2023
Background Influenza (flu) vaccination rates in UK care home staff are extremely low. Less than 40% of staff in care homes are vaccinated for influenza (flu), presenting risks to the health of frail residents and potential staff absence from cross ...
Linda Birt, Thando Katangwe-Chigamba, Sion Scott, David J Wright, Adam P. Wagner, Erika Sims, Veronica Bion, Carys Seeley, Faisal Alsaif, Allan Clarke, Alys Griffiths, Liz Jones, Alison Bryant, Amrish Patel   +13 more
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A world apart: Levels and determinants of excess mortality due to COVID-19 in care homes: The case of the Belgian region of Wallonia during the spring 2020 wave

Demographic Research, 2021
Background: In Western countries, COVID-19 has been particularly deadly for care home residents. Objective: To understand the role of age and sex structures, health frailty, and contamination dynamics in COVID-19 mortality in populations living inside
Olivier J. Hardy, Dominique Dubourg, Mélanie Bourguignon, Simon Dellicour, Thierry Eggerickx, Marius Gilbert, Jean-Paul Sanderson, Aline Scohy, Eline Vandael, Jean-Michel Decroly   +9 more
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An occupational therapy intervention for residents with stroke related disabilities in UK care homes (OTCH): cluster randomised controlled trial [PDF]

, 2015
Objective To evaluate the clinical efficacy of an established programme of occupational therapy in maintaining functional activity and reducing further health risks from inactivity in care home residents living with stroke sequelae.
Barton, Garry, Burton, C. R., Burton, Christopher R., Fletcher-Smith, J., Fletcher-Smith, Joanna, Irvine, L., Irvine, Lisa, Lett, K., Mant, J., Mant, Jonathan, Masterson-Algar, Patricia, Peryer, G., Peryer, Guy, Rashid, Farzana, Roalfe, A. K., Roalfe, Andrea K., Sackley, Catherine M., Sharp, L., Sharp, Leslie, Sheehan, B., Sheehan, Bart, Stant, K. E., Stant, Katie E., Steel, Kerry, Steele, K., Walker, M. F., Walker, Marion F., Watkins, C. L., Watkins, Caroline L., Wheatley, K., Wheatley, Keith, Wilde, K., Wilde, Kate, Williams, Jane   +33 more
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‘’It just happens’. Care home residents’ experiences and expectations of accessing GP care. [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Care homes provide personal care and support for older people who can no longer be supported in the community. As part of a larger study of integrated working between the NHS and care homes we asked older people how they accessed health care ...
Davies, Sue L, Dickinson, Angela, Froggatt, Katherine, Gage, Heather, Goodman, Claire, Iliffe, S., Masey, Helen, Morbey , Hazel, Victor, Christina   +8 more
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The Use of Smart Speakers in Care Home Residents: Implementation Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021
BackgroundThe use of smart speakers to improve well-being had been trialed in social care by others; however, we were not aware of their implementation in most care homes across a region in the Southwest of the United Kingdom. For
Katie J Edwards, Ray B Jones, Deborah Shenton, Toni Page, Inocencio Maramba, Alison Warren, Fiona Fraser, Tanja Križaj, Tristan Coombe, Hazel Cowls, Arunangsu Chatterjee   +10 more
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