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Using Meta-Ethnography to Synthesize Relevant Studies: Capturing the Bigger Picture in Dementia With Challenging Behavior Within Families (2018)
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Feast, A., Orrell, M., Charlesworth, G., Poland, F., Featherstone, K., Melunsky, N., & Moniz-Cook, E. (2018). Using Meta-Ethnography to Synthesize Relevant Studies: Capturing the Bigger Picture in Dementia With Challenging Behavior Within Families. SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526444899

In understanding the range and depth of people’s experiences, it is important to include the wide range of approaches which capture the richness within a given knowledge base. However, systematic reviews using quantitative data alone risk missing fin... Read More about Using Meta-Ethnography to Synthesize Relevant Studies: Capturing the Bigger Picture in Dementia With Challenging Behavior Within Families.

Care management in social and primary health care: The gateshead community care scheme (2018)
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Challis, D., Chesterman, J., Luckett, R., Stewart, K., & Chessum, R. (2018). Care management in social and primary health care: The gateshead community care scheme. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315185217

This book provides an evaluation of the Gateshead Community Care Scheme which was devised as an alternative to residential and hospital care for frail elderly people. An important feature of the scheme was the decentralization of control of resources... Read More about Care management in social and primary health care: The gateshead community care scheme.

Matching Resources to Needs in Community Care: An evaluated demonstration of a long-term care model (2018)
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Davies, B., & Challis, D. (2018). Matching Resources to Needs in Community Care: An evaluated demonstration of a long-term care model. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429448133

© Crown 1986. All rights reserved. First published in 1986, Matching Resources to Needs describes the PSSRU’s community care approach and analyses the first of the community care projects, a seminal set of experiments in the care of the elderly at hi... Read More about Matching Resources to Needs in Community Care: An evaluated demonstration of a long-term care model.

Towards quality care: Outcomes for older people in care homes (2017)
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Mozley, C., Sutcliffe, C., Bagley, H., Cordingley, L., Challis, D., Huxley, P., & Burns, A. (2017). Towards quality care: Outcomes for older people in care homes. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351144360

© Personal Social Services Research Unit, 2004. This unique evaluation of the outcomes of residential and nursing home care for older people identifies the factors determining the quality of life of older people who have moved into care homes. It exa... Read More about Towards quality care: Outcomes for older people in care homes.

Supporting people with dementia at home: Challenges and opportunities for the 21st century (2009)
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Challis, D., Sutcliffe, C., Hughes, J., Von Abendorff, R., Brown, P., & Chesterman, J. (2009). Supporting people with dementia at home: Challenges and opportunities for the 21st century. Routledge

Supporting People with Dementia at Home details a groundbreaking study of an intensive care management scheme designed for older people with dementia that are at risk of entry into residential care. The authors use a quasi-experimental approach to co... Read More about Supporting people with dementia at home: Challenges and opportunities for the 21st century.

Performance indicators in social care for older people (2006)
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Challis, D., & Clarkson, P. (2006). Performance indicators in social care for older people. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315247151

The growing focus on performance review and monitoring means that awareness and use of performance indicators has increased throughout a number of public services. Set within a national context, this book reviews the historical development and measur... Read More about Performance indicators in social care for older people.