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A sense of home in residential care
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2012Moving into a residential care facility requires a great deal of adjustment to an environment and lifestyle entirely different from that of one's previous life. Attachment to place is believed to help create a sense of home and maintain self‐identity, supporting successful adjustment to contingencies of ageing.
Hanna, Falk +3 more
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Measuring the quality of residential care
Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1975Abstract Administrative personnel require objective, reliable and valid information in order to monitor the effects of allocating resources to different components of the service that they are providing. The initial problem is to define and measure the dependent variable—the ‘quality of care’ —against which the effects of changing various independent
R, Whatmore, L, Durward, A, Kushlick
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From residential care to residential care — the case of Hong Kong
Early Child Development and Care, 1995Permanency planning has been a major concern in the child care field in the West for almost two decades. The first comprehensive study on residential child care in Hong Kong found that a substantial proportion of the children in care had been transferred from one residential facility to another.
Mary K.W. HO, Tony S.K. Tam∗
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Capacity Building in Residential Care
Healthcare Management Forum, 2011A retrospective analysis of how the Dementia Care Program (DCP) contributed to capacity building at The Lodge at Broadmead (2004–2009) was conducted in 2010. Results showed facility-wide enhancements in (1) information capital, because of educational workshops and other forms of interactive learning for all staff, and (2) social capital, because of ...
Nancy, Gnaedinger, Robinson, Janice
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Putting the Care into Residential Care
Journal of Social Work, 2003• Summary: There has been long-standing academic interest in the study of residential child care. Such study has made a valuable contribution to the development of both services and care practice. The perspectives of young people have, however, received less attention. This gap is most significant in relation to their group care experiences. Indeed the
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Identifying palliative care needs in residential care
Australian Journal of Primary Health, 2018The aim of this study is to determine the accuracy, feasibility and acceptability of the surprise question (SQ) in combination with a clinical prediction tool (Supportive and Palliative Care Indicator Tool (SPICT)) in identifying residents who have palliative care needs in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) in Australia.
Liyanage, Thilini +2 more
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Residential Care Home Awareness
2012The evolution of technology has resulted in important advances in health computing. Nowadays, health environments are able to use sophisticated systems by which users can reduce efforts and make their actions more efficient. Additionally, health systems allow avoiding typical human errors by means of automated processes.
Juan Enrique Garrido Navarro +2 more
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Nursing Standard, 1987
Encouraging patients in the community to live in their own home supported by local authorities denies freedom of choice and would not save money, says the Independent Hospitals Association in evidence to Sir Roy Griffiths review of community care.
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Encouraging patients in the community to live in their own home supported by local authorities denies freedom of choice and would not save money, says the Independent Hospitals Association in evidence to Sir Roy Griffiths review of community care.
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Palliative care in residential aged care: An overview
Australasian Journal on Ageing, 2017ObjectiveTo measure how care needs, health and length of stay in permanent residential aged care differs by assessed need for palliative care.MethodsOn entry into permanent residential aged care, people's care needs and health conditions are assessed on the Aged Care Funding Instrument.
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Diabetes care in care home and residential settings
British Journal of Community Nursing, 2018An increasing number of people require insulin to manage their diabetes, many of them in supported environments such as residential care homes. Community nursing teams are likely to have a growing caseload of care home residents who require diabetes care, including insulin injections, and many unregistered practitioners are being asked to take on this
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