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Care homes

Nursing Standard, 2015
Essential facts: About 450,000 mainly older people live in more than 17,000 care and nursing homes in England. Following concerns about mistreatment and the standard of care some residents receive, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) introduced a new inspection regime for care homes in October last year.
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Home Care — Who Cares?

New England Journal of Medicine, 1986
Home care is currently one of the most rapidly growing fields in health care, yet it is a subject that the majority of physicians know little about.
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Home care and hospice home care

2015
This chapter discusses home care as an environment that provides unique opportunities to promote palliative care for patients and families throughout their illnesses. The chapter gives background information on what home care is, its historical roots, the types of providers available to give services, the regulatory policies controlling its use ...
Paula Milone-Nuzzo   +2 more
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Care homes: Do they 'care' and are they 'homes'?

Journal of Care Services Management, 2007
AbstractThe phrase 'care home' conveys two clear messages: caring and homeliness, ie a place to live when both are needed. Many homes are worthy of this title, but many are not. This paper looks at those that are not, describes in what ways these homes are neither caring nor homely, and examines the management attitudes and actions that prevent them ...
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Home Care and the Practitioner

Postgraduate Medicine, 1952
To the Editor: —The establishment of an extramural hospital activity, popularly known as home care, is under serious consideration in many hospitals of this country and abroad. Though we now have a considerable literature on the subject based on a highly successful experiment, there still remain some misgivings in the minds of practitioners about the ...
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Ostomy Care at Home

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2018
This article is part of a series, Supporting Family Caregivers: No Longer Home Alone, published in collaboration with the AARP Public Policy Institute. Results of focus groups, conducted as part of the AARP Public Policy Institute's No Longer Home Alone video project, supported evidence that family caregivers aren't given the ...
Holly, Kirkland-Kyhn   +4 more
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Will Care at Home Replace Care Homes?

Journal of Integrated Care, 2005
Nursing and residential care homes provide familiar and safe environments where any risks to individuals are minimised. But equally important is maintaining a sense of independence ‐ a balance that's difficult to strike in a supervised home. So could the latest generation of assistive technology provide safety and reassurance for people in their own ...
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Care homes: Caring and homely? But how?

Journal of Care Services Management, 2008
AbstractThe purpose of any 'care home' is to provide care in a homely environment. These are simple words for an immensely complex task. In the author's previous paper for this journal (Vol. 1, No. 3), he identified and analysed the shortcomings of care homes (that many of them are neither caring nor homely), and set out an initial framework and a ...
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Home Care, Health Care

The Journal of the American Dental Association, 1994
The relationship between the dental industry and the profession is reviewed by JADA’s Executive Editor, James Berry.
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Care at home, not in a home

Learning Disability Practice, 2014
Editor Colin Parish Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3153 Email: colin.parish@rcnpublishing.co.uk Managing director Rhonda Oliver Editor in chief Jean Gray Senior editor Gary Bell Assistant editor Sophie Blakemore Acting assistant editor Jennifer Sprinks Head of production Fiona Maclean Senior production editor Julie Hickey Production editor Duncan Tyler Art ...
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