All Outputs (7)

Measuring health related quality of life of care home residents, comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses for EQ-5D-5L and HowRu: protocol for assessing proxy reliability in care home outcome testing (2018)
Journal Article
Usman, A., Lewis, S., Hinsliff-Smith, K., Long, A., Housley, G., Jordan, J., Gage, H., Dening, T., Gladman, J. R., & Gordon, A. L. (2018). Measuring health related quality of life of care home residents, comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses for EQ-5D-5L and HowRu: protocol for assessing proxy reliability in care home outcome testing. BMJ Open, 8(8), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022127

Introduction
Research into interventions to improve health and wellbeing for older people living in care homes is increasingly common. Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) is frequently used as an outcome measure but collecting both self-reported... Read More about Measuring health related quality of life of care home residents, comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses for EQ-5D-5L and HowRu: protocol for assessing proxy reliability in care home outcome testing.

Scaling the Peaks Research Protocol: understanding the barriers and drivers to providing and using dementia-friendly community services in rural areas—a mixed methods study (2018)
Journal Article
Marshall, F., Basiri, A., Riley, M., Dening, T., Gladman, J. R., Griffiths, A., & Lewis, S. (2018). Scaling the Peaks Research Protocol: understanding the barriers and drivers to providing and using dementia-friendly community services in rural areas—a mixed methods study. BMJ Open, 8(4), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020374

Introduction: Scaling the Peaks is a cross-disciplinary research study which draws on medical ethnography, human geography and Geospatial Information Science (GIS) to address the issues surrounding the design and delivery of dementia friendly service... Read More about Scaling the Peaks Research Protocol: understanding the barriers and drivers to providing and using dementia-friendly community services in rural areas—a mixed methods study.

Optimal healthcare delivery to care homes in the UK: a realist evaluation of what supports effective working to improve healthcare outcomes (2018)
Journal Article
Gordon, A. L., Goodman, C., Davies, S. L., Dening, T., Gage, H., Meyer, J., …Zubair, M. (2018). Optimal healthcare delivery to care homes in the UK: a realist evaluation of what supports effective working to improve healthcare outcomes. Age and Ageing, 47(4), 595-603. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afx195

Introduction: care home residents have high healthcare needs not fully met by prevailing healthcare models. This study explored how healthcare configuration influences resource use.

Methods: a realist evaluation using qualitative and quantitative... Read More about Optimal healthcare delivery to care homes in the UK: a realist evaluation of what supports effective working to improve healthcare outcomes.

Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings (2017)
Journal Article
Goodman, C., Davies, S. L., Gordon, A. L., Dening, T., Gage, H., Meyer, J., …Zubair, M. (2017). Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings. Health Services and Delivery Research, 5(29), https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr05290

Background: Care homes are the institutional providers of long-term care for older people. The OPTIMAL study argued that it is probable that there are key activities within different models of health-care provision that are important for residents’ h... Read More about Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings.

Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review (2016)
Journal Article
Goodman, C., Dening, T., Gordon, A. L., Davies, S. L., Meyer, J., Martin, F. C., …Zubair, M. (in press). Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review. BMC Health Services Research, 16(269), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1493-4

Background: Care home residents in England have variable access to health care services. There is currently no coherent policy or consensus about the best arrangements to meet these needs. The purpose of this review was to explore the evidence for ho... Read More about Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review.

Relationships, expertise, incentives, and governance: supporting care home residents' access to health care: an interview study from England (2015)
Journal Article
Goodman, C., Davies, S. L., Gordon, A. L., Meyer, J., Dening, T., Gladman, J. R., …Martin, F. C. (2015). Relationships, expertise, incentives, and governance: supporting care home residents' access to health care: an interview study from England. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 16(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2015.01.072

Objectives
To explore what commissioners of care, regulators, providers, and care home residents in England identify as the key mechanisms or components of different service delivery models that support the provision of National Health Service (NHS)... Read More about Relationships, expertise, incentives, and governance: supporting care home residents' access to health care: an interview study from England.

The Optimal Study: describing the key components of optimal health care delivery to UK care home residents: a research protocol (2014)
Journal Article
Gordon, A. L., Goodman, C., Dening, T., Davies, S., Gladman, J. R., Bell, B. G., …Victor, C. (2014). The Optimal Study: describing the key components of optimal health care delivery to UK care home residents: a research protocol. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 15(9), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2014.06.011

Long term institutional care in the UK is provided by care homes. Residents have prevalent cognitive impairment and disability, have multiple diagnoses and are subject to polypharmacy. Prevailing models of healthcare provision - ad hoc, reactive and... Read More about The Optimal Study: describing the key components of optimal health care delivery to UK care home residents: a research protocol.