Keir Harding explores a recent study of community-based, step-down, and residential specialist psychodynamic programmes for personality disorders, which includes some surprising findings.
[read the full story...]Experiences of residential care assistants working with people with dementia
Jill Manthorpe discusses a qualitative study of care assistants experiences of looking after people with dementia in residential care.
[read the full story...]Long-term care placement for people with dementia
Clarissa Giebel reports on a systematic review and meta-analysis of factors predicting care placement of dementia sufferers into long-term care facilities.
[read the full story...]Impact of functional alterations on quality of life in Alzheimer disease
Clarissa Giebel analyses a qualitative study of how functional alterations impact quality of life in Alzheimer disease.
[read the full story...]Independent living: what matters most to very old people?
Jill Manthorpe reports on an Australian qualitative study on what independent living means to very old people.
[read the full story...]Continuity of relationships can help older adults cope with care transition
Jill Manthorpe reports an updated NIHR-funded literature review of how we can improve older adults’ experiences of care transition.
[read the full story...]New NICE Guideline on social care support for older people with multiple long-term conditions
Sarah Carr takes a look at a new NICE Guideline on person-centred, integrated social care support for older people with multiple long-term conditions.
[read the full story...]CQC State of Care Report and research for quality improvement: Elves mine the archive
Sarah Carr takes a look at CQC’s State of Adult Social Care Report 2014/15 and corrals the elves in to mine the Social Care Elf archive for some research blogs to help adults social care providers improve services quality.
[read the full story...]Care worker experiences of dementia care in nursing and residential settings
Jo Moriarty examines research on care worker experiences of supporting people with dementia in residential settings and discovers the value of relationships in a task centred working environment.
[read the full story...]The moral and emotional labour of care workers in residential homes
Jill Manthorpe discusses a case study on how the emotional and moral labour of care workers operates in residential settings.
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