All Outputs (199)

Commissioning social care for older people: Influencing the quality of direct care (2013)
Journal Article

The delivery of personalised support to vulnerable older people is largely contingent on those staff who provide direct care. These care workers play an invaluable role in supporting vulnerable older people that may have increasingly complex needs ei... Read More about Commissioning social care for older people: Influencing the quality of direct care.

Social care in older people's services-facilitating the flexible use of resources (2012)
Journal Article

Personal budgets in social care are a mechanism for the allocation of resources for care that permits users' greater choice and flexibility. This study was designed to explore developments in care coordination arrangements by examining the flexible u... Read More about Social care in older people's services-facilitating the flexible use of resources.

Revisiting the Causes of Stress in Social Work: Sources of Job Demands, Control and Support in Personalised Adult Social Care (2012)
Journal Article

Social workers in adult social care are at particular risk of job-related stress, although the contribution of different organisational and policy changes to this phenomenon is subject to debate. This paper explores a theoretical framework from the o... Read More about Revisiting the Causes of Stress in Social Work: Sources of Job Demands, Control and Support in Personalised Adult Social Care.

Exploring the Contribution of Self-Assessment to Preventative Services in Social Care (2012)
Journal Article

Prevention, comprising services that seek to delay deterioration of existing conditions and circumstances or prevent their occurrence by early access to support, is recognised as having an important role in adult social care. The gateway to social ca... Read More about Exploring the Contribution of Self-Assessment to Preventative Services in Social Care.

The impact of individual budgets on the targeting of support: Findings from a national evaluation of pilot projects in England (2012)
Journal Article

Individual or personal budgets are part of a growing international trend to encourage greater choice and control over social care services at a time of financial austerity. The authors' evaluation of individual budgets found that levels of allocated... Read More about The impact of individual budgets on the targeting of support: Findings from a national evaluation of pilot projects in England.

Older people's experiences of cash-for-care schemes: evidence from the English Individual Budget pilot projects (2012)
Journal Article

Cash-for-care schemes offering cash payments in place of conventional social services are becoming commonplace in developed welfare states; however, there is little evidence about the impact of such schemes on older people. This paper reports on the... Read More about Older people's experiences of cash-for-care schemes: evidence from the English Individual Budget pilot projects.

Promoting Personalization in Social Care Services for Older People (2012)
Journal Article

This article presents findings on 4 themes associated with the personalization of social care for older people: integration of health and social care services; initiatives that prevent the need for more costly interventions; services to maintain peop... Read More about Promoting Personalization in Social Care Services for Older People.

Variations in structures, processes and outcomes of community mental health teams for older people: A systematic review of the literature (2012)
Journal Article

Objectives: In the UK and elsewhere, specialist community mental health teams (CMHTs) are central to the provision of comprehensive services for older people with mental ill health. Recent guidance documents suggest a core set of attributes that such... Read More about Variations in structures, processes and outcomes of community mental health teams for older people: A systematic review of the literature.

A European study investigating patterns of transition from home care towards institutional dementia care: The protocol of a RightTimePlaceCare study (2012)
Journal Article

Background: Health care policies in many countries aim to enable people with dementia to live in their own homes as long as possible. However, at some point during the disease the needs of a significant number of people with dementia cannot be approp... Read More about A European study investigating patterns of transition from home care towards institutional dementia care: The protocol of a RightTimePlaceCare study.

Self-assessment processes within care management: Learning from pilot projects (2011)
Journal Article

• Summary: Self-assessment is one of a range of new practices within adult social care, aimed at increasing the choices available to service users in relation to both the assessment process and the way services are delivered. By analysing the results... Read More about Self-assessment processes within care management: Learning from pilot projects.

Towards understanding variations in social care for older people in england (2011)
Journal Article

Indicators of the public provision of old age social care are routinely recorded in England and have been used for diverse purposes including performance monitoring. Despite long-term policy guidance promoting more homogeneous service provision, larg... Read More about Towards understanding variations in social care for older people in england.

Emergent approaches to care coordination in England: Exploring the evidence from two national organizations (2011)
Journal Article

For many years, there has been an international concern about the fragmented nature of health and social care services for vulnerable older people and younger adults. This article examines the implementation of two major policies in England designed... Read More about Emergent approaches to care coordination in England: Exploring the evidence from two national organizations.

Personalisation through individual budgets: Does it work and for whom? (2011)
Journal Article

In England, 'personal budgets' are being implemented at a time of financial austerity. They are part of a growing trend internationally to give users of publicly funded social care and support more choice and control. In the individual budgets' (IB)... Read More about Personalisation through individual budgets: Does it work and for whom?.

The identification and detection of dementia and its correlates in a social services setting: Impact of a national policy in England (2011)
Journal Article

Dementia continues to be under-recognized, an important issue in many countries. Policy addressing this has focused on the role of general practice-based staff, but dementia represents an area in which closer collaboration between community health an... Read More about The identification and detection of dementia and its correlates in a social services setting: Impact of a national policy in England.

Identification and recognition of depression in community care assessments: Impact of a national policy in England (2011)
Journal Article

Background: Depression continues to be under-recognized in older people. Most policies addressing this issue focus on the primary health care team. However, recognition may be improved by use of assessment tools and collaboration between secondary he... Read More about Identification and recognition of depression in community care assessments: Impact of a national policy in England.

Implementing Consumer Choice Long-term Care: The Impact of Individual Budgets on Social Care Providers England (2011)
Journal Article

common with many advanced welfare states, England has increasingly relied on consumerist principles to deliver both greater quality and improved efficiency the long-term care system. The Individual Budget (IB) pilots marked the next step this process... Read More about Implementing Consumer Choice Long-term Care: The Impact of Individual Budgets on Social Care Providers England.

The personalization of care services and the early impact on staff activity patterns (2011)
Journal Article

• Summary: This study examines the early impact on care coordinators' (care managers') work activity patterns of implementing the current personalization agenda within English local authorities. The Individual Budget (IB) pilots operated between 2005... Read More about The personalization of care services and the early impact on staff activity patterns.

Implementation of case management in long-term conditions in England: Survey and case studies (2011)
Journal Article

Objectives: Our aim was to describe the current provision of case management arrangements in primary care for people with long-term conditions in England and identify the extent and nature of self-care support services within it. Methods: Cross-secti... Read More about Implementation of case management in long-term conditions in England: Survey and case studies.

Integrating assessments of older people: Examining evidence and impact from a randomised controlled trial (2011)
Journal Article

Case management for people with long-term conditions: impact upon emergency admissions and associated length of stay (2011)
Journal Article

This paper describes findings from a study that evaluated the implementation and impact of case management for long-term conditions (CMLTC) in 10 primary care trusts (PCTs). Patients who have long-term conditions and complex health and social needs m... Read More about Case management for people with long-term conditions: impact upon emergency admissions and associated length of stay.