All Outputs (5)

Impact of COVID-19 on home care provision: A qualitative study (2024)
Journal Article
Darby, J., Allen, F., Bennett, C., Logan, P., & Kasonde, C. (2024). Impact of COVID-19 on home care provision: A qualitative study. Journal of Social Work, 24(5), 645-663. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173241258900

Summary The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent public health restrictions caused an unprecedented impact on long-term care services in the United Kingdom (UK). A qualitative study was conducted in the East Midlands, UK, to explore how home care provisi... Read More about Impact of COVID-19 on home care provision: A qualitative study.

Developing the Principles of Falls Management in Care Homes: An expert Consensus Process (2024)
Journal Article
Robinson, K. R., Hallam, F., Horne, J. C., Allen, F., Darby, J., Kilby, A., Timmons, S., Gordon, A., & Logan, P. (2024). Developing the Principles of Falls Management in Care Homes: An expert Consensus Process. Journal of Long-Term Care, 2024, 162–170. https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.170

Context: Managing falls in care homes requires an individualised approach for each resident with involvement of staff from care homes and the wider health and social care system. A large randomised controlled trial evaluating an individualised falls... Read More about Developing the Principles of Falls Management in Care Homes: An expert Consensus Process.

A realist evaluation of a multifactorial falls prevention programme in care homes (2022)
Journal Article
Leighton, P. A., Darby, J., Allen, F., Cook, M., Evley, R., Fox, C., …Logan, P. (2022). A realist evaluation of a multifactorial falls prevention programme in care homes. Age and Ageing, 51(12), Article afac263. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac263

BACKGROUND: falls in care homes are common, costly and hard to prevent.Multifactorial falls programmes demonstrate clinical and cost-effectiveness, but the heterogeneity of the care home sector is a barrier to their implementation. A fuller appreciat... Read More about A realist evaluation of a multifactorial falls prevention programme in care homes.

An investigation of Reablement or restorative homecare interventions  and outcome effects: A systematic review of randomised control trials (2022)
Journal Article
Bennett, C., Allen, F., Hodge, S., & Logan, P. (2022). An investigation of Reablement or restorative homecare interventions  and outcome effects: A systematic review of randomised control trials. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(6), e6586-e6600. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.14108

The effect of Reablement, a multi-faceted intervention is unclear, specifically, which interventions improve outcomes. This Systematic Review evaluates randomised controlled trials (RCTs) describing Reablement investigating the population, interventi... Read More about An investigation of Reablement or restorative homecare interventions  and outcome effects: A systematic review of randomised control trials.

Learning from a successful process evaluation in care homes (2021)
Journal Article
Allen, F., Darby, J., Cook, M., Evley, R., Godfrey, M., Horne, J., …Robinson, K. (2021). Learning from a successful process evaluation in care homes. Age and Ageing, 50(5), 1850-1853. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afab139

Introduction
process evaluations (PE) are increasingly used in parallel with randomised controlled trials (RCT) to inform the implementation of complex health interventions. This paper explores the learning accrued from conducting a PE within the Fa... Read More about Learning from a successful process evaluation in care homes.