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Practitioners preferences of care coordination for older people: A discrete choice experiment (2017)
Journal Article
Jasper, R., Chester, H., Hughes, J., Abendstern, M., Loynes, N., Sutcliffe, C., …Challis, D. (2018). Practitioners preferences of care coordination for older people: A discrete choice experiment. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 61(2), 151-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2017.1417342

© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. These findings demonstrate the importance of organisations providing care coordination for older people receiving long-term funding. Further research is required to investigate the influence of service setting on... Read More about Practitioners preferences of care coordination for older people: A discrete choice experiment.

Age, memory loss and perceptions of dementia in South Asian ethnic minorities (2017)
Journal Article
Giebel, C. M., Worden, A., Challis, D., Jolley, D., Bhui, K. S., Lambat, A., …Purandare, N. (2019). Age, memory loss and perceptions of dementia in South Asian ethnic minorities. Aging and Mental Health, 23(2), 173-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2017.1408772

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Background: South Asian older adults are represented less frequently in mainstream mental health services or those for people with dementia. This study aimed to explore in detail the per... Read More about Age, memory loss and perceptions of dementia in South Asian ethnic minorities.

Systematic review: Effective home support in dementia care, components and impacts - Stage 2, effectiveness of home support interventions (2017)
Journal Article
Clarkson, P., Hughes, J., Roe, B., Giebel, C. M., Jolley, D., Poland, F., …Members of the HoSt-D (Home Support in Dementia) Programme Management Group. (2018). Systematic review: Effective home support in dementia care, components and impacts - Stage 2, effectiveness of home support interventions. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(3), 507-527. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13460

© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: The aim of this study was to explicate the outcomes of home support interventions for older people with dementia and/or their carers to inform clinical practice, policy and research. Background: Most people with de... Read More about Systematic review: Effective home support in dementia care, components and impacts - Stage 2, effectiveness of home support interventions.

Social care in prison: Emerging practice arrangements consequent upon the introduction of the 2014 care act (2017)
Journal Article
Tucker, S., Hargreaves, C., Roberts, A., Anderson, I., Shaw, J., & Challis, D. (2018). Social care in prison: Emerging practice arrangements consequent upon the introduction of the 2014 care act. British Journal of Social Work, 48(6), 1627-1644. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx115

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved. Despite an obvious and growing need, there has historically been scant provision of social care and social work in pr... Read More about Social care in prison: Emerging practice arrangements consequent upon the introduction of the 2014 care act.

What makes extra care housing an appropriate setting for people with dementia? An exploration of staff decision-making (2017)
Journal Article
Verbeek, H., Tucker and, S., Wilberforce, M., Brand, C., Abendstern, M., & Challis, D. (2019). What makes extra care housing an appropriate setting for people with dementia? An exploration of staff decision-making. Dementia, 18(5), 1710-1726. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301217724966

© The Author(s) 2017. Extra care housing facilities in the UK are intended to offer a community-based alternative to care home placement. However, little is known about staff’s views of the appropriateness of extra care housing for people with dement... Read More about What makes extra care housing an appropriate setting for people with dementia? An exploration of staff decision-making.

Potentially inappropriate medication among people with dementia in eight European countries (2017)
Journal Article
Renom-Guiteras, A., Thürmann, P. A., Miralles, R., Klaaßen-Mielke, R., Thiem, U., Stephan, A., …Vellas, B. (2018). Potentially inappropriate medication among people with dementia in eight European countries. Age and Ageing, 47(1), 68-74. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afx147

© The Author 2017. Objectives: to evaluate the frequency of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) prescription among older people with dementia (PwD) from eight countries participating in the European study 'RightTimePlaceCare', and to evaluate... Read More about Potentially inappropriate medication among people with dementia in eight European countries.

Community mental health teams for older people in England: Variations in ways of working (2017)
Journal Article
Verbeek, H., Worden, A., Wilberforce, M., Brand, C., Tucker, S., Abendstern, M., & Challis, D. (2018). Community mental health teams for older people in England: Variations in ways of working. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 33(3), 475-481. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4775

Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Objective: Integrated community mental health teams (CMHTs) are a key component of specialist old age psychiatry services internationally. However, in England, significant shifts in policy, including a focus... Read More about Community mental health teams for older people in England: Variations in ways of working.

Caring for a Person With Dementia on the Margins of Long-Term Care: A Perspective on Burden From 8 European Countries (2017)
Journal Article
Sutcliffe, C., Giebel, C., Bleijlevens, M., Lethin, C., Stolt, M., Saks, K., …Vellas, B. (2017). Caring for a Person With Dementia on the Margins of Long-Term Care: A Perspective on Burden From 8 European Countries. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 18(11), 967-973.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2017.06.004

© 2017 AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine Objectives To explore associations between carer burden and characteristics of (1) the informal carer, (2) the person with dementia, and (3) the care support network in 8 European c... Read More about Caring for a Person With Dementia on the Margins of Long-Term Care: A Perspective on Burden From 8 European Countries.

Core outcome measures for interventions to prevent or slow the progress of dementia for people living with mild to moderate dementia: Systematic review and consensus recommendations (2017)
Journal Article
Webster, L., Groskreutz, D., Grinbergs-Saull, A., Howard, R., O'Brien, J. T., Mountain, G., …Livingston, G. (2017). Core outcome measures for interventions to prevent or slow the progress of dementia for people living with mild to moderate dementia: Systematic review and consensus recommendations. PLoS ONE, 12(6), Article e017952. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179521

Background There are no disease-modifying treatments for dementia. There is also no consensus on disease modifying outcomes. We aimed to produce the first evidence-based consensus on core outcome measures for trials of disease modification in mild-t... Read More about Core outcome measures for interventions to prevent or slow the progress of dementia for people living with mild to moderate dementia: Systematic review and consensus recommendations.

Provision and perceived quality of mental health services for older care home residents in England: a national survey (2017)
Journal Article
Stewart, K., Hargreaves, C., Jasper, R., Challis, D., Tucker, S., & Wilberforce, M. (2018). Provision and perceived quality of mental health services for older care home residents in England: a national survey. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 33(2), 364-370. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4753

Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Objective: This study examined the nature, extent and perceived quality of the support provided by community mental health teams for older people (CMHTsOP) to care home residents. Methods: A postal survey wa... Read More about Provision and perceived quality of mental health services for older care home residents in England: a national survey.

Overview of systematic reviews: Effective home support in dementia care, components and impacts—Stage 1, psychosocial interventions for dementia (2017)
Journal Article
Clarkson, P., Hughes, J., Xie, C., Larbey, M., Roe, B., Giebel, C. M., …Challis, D. (2017). Overview of systematic reviews: Effective home support in dementia care, components and impacts—Stage 1, psychosocial interventions for dementia. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(12), 2845-2863. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13362

© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Aim: To synthesize evidence to identify the components of effective psychosocial interventions in dementia care to inform clinical practice, policy and research. Background: With population ageing, dementia represents... Read More about Overview of systematic reviews: Effective home support in dementia care, components and impacts—Stage 1, psychosocial interventions for dementia.

A Systematic Review of the Economic Evidence for Home Support Interventions in Dementia (2017)
Journal Article
Clarkson, P., Davies, L., Jasper, R., Loynes, N., & Challis, D. (2017). A Systematic Review of the Economic Evidence for Home Support Interventions in Dementia. Value in Health, 20(8), 1198-1209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2017.04.004

© 2017 International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Background Recent evidence signals the need for effective forms of home support to people with dementia and their carers. The cost-effectiveness evidence of different ap... Read More about A Systematic Review of the Economic Evidence for Home Support Interventions in Dementia.

An electronic referral system supporting integrated hospital discharge (2017)
Journal Article
Wilberforce, M., Hughes, J., Clarkson, P., Whyte, D., Chester, H., Davies, S., & Challis, D. (2017). An electronic referral system supporting integrated hospital discharge. Journal of Integrated Care, 25(2), 99-109. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICA-09-2016-0034

© Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the implementation and potential value of an electronic referral system to improve integrated discharge planning for hospitalised older adults with complex care needs. T... Read More about An electronic referral system supporting integrated hospital discharge.

Informal and formal care: Substitutes or complements in care for people with dementia? Empirical evidence for 8 European countries (2017)
Journal Article
Bremer, P., Challis, D., Hallberg, I. R., Leino-Kilpi, H., Saks, K., Vellas, B., …Sauerland, D. (2017). Informal and formal care: Substitutes or complements in care for people with dementia? Empirical evidence for 8 European countries. Health Policy, 121(6), 613-622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.03.013

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Background In order to contain public health care spending, European countries attempt to promote informal caregiving. However, such a cost reducing strategy will only be successful if informal caregiving is a substitute for form... Read More about Informal and formal care: Substitutes or complements in care for people with dementia? Empirical evidence for 8 European countries.

A discrete choice experiment to explore carer preferences (2017)
Journal Article
Chester, H., Clarkson, P., Davies, L., Sutcliffe, C., Roe, B., Hughes, J., & Challis, D. (2017). A discrete choice experiment to explore carer preferences. Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, 18(1), 33-43. https://doi.org/10.1108/QAOA-10-2015-0047

© Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to describe a case study to test the applicability of the discrete choice experiment (DCE) method to assess the preferences of carers of people with dementia. The focus of enquiry w... Read More about A discrete choice experiment to explore carer preferences.

Evaluating the effectiveness of different approaches to home support for people in later stage dementia: A protocol for an observational study (2017)
Journal Article
Chester, H., Clarkson, P., Hughes, J., Russell, I., Beresford, J., Davies, L., …Challis, D. (2017). Evaluating the effectiveness of different approaches to home support for people in later stage dementia: A protocol for an observational study. International Psychogeriatrics, 29(7), 1213-1221. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610217000291

© International Psychogeriatric Association 2017. Background: Dementia is a major health problem with a growing number of people affected by the condition, both directly and indirectly through caring for someone with dementia. Many live at home but l... Read More about Evaluating the effectiveness of different approaches to home support for people in later stage dementia: A protocol for an observational study.

Support workers in community mental health teams for older people: roles, boundaries, supervision and training (2017)
Journal Article
Wilberforce, M., Abendstern, M., Tucker, S., Ahmed, S., Jasper, R., & Challis, D. (2017). Support workers in community mental health teams for older people: roles, boundaries, supervision and training. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(7), 1657-1666. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13264

© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aims: The aim of this study was to explore the support worker functions in community mental health teams for older adults in relation to roles, boundaries, supervision and training. Background: Support workers in commun... Read More about Support workers in community mental health teams for older people: roles, boundaries, supervision and training.

Social work and care/case management in dementia (2017)
Book Chapter
Challis, D., Hughes, J., & Sutcliffe, C. (2017). Social work and care/case management in dementia. In D. Ames, J. T. O'Brien, & A. Burns (Eds.), Dementia (192-198). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315381572

© 2017 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Social work, like any professional or occupational group, is inseparable from the organizational and legislative context in which it takes place since this denes the parameters of practice. Prior to the introd... Read More about Social work and care/case management in dementia.

Care co-ordination for older people in the third sector: scoping the evidence (2017)
Journal Article
Abendstern, M., Hughes, J., Jasper, R., Sutcliffe, C., & Challis, D. (2018). Care co-ordination for older people in the third sector: scoping the evidence. Health and Social Care in the Community, 26(3), 314-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12420

© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd The third sector has played a significant role internationally in the delivery of adult social care services for many years. Its contribution to care co-ordination activities for older people, however, in England and el... Read More about Care co-ordination for older people in the third sector: scoping the evidence.