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| The quality of residential and nursing home care for people with dementia | | Author(s) | Philip Tune, Peter Bowie |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 29, no 4, July 2000 |
| Pages | pp 325-328 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Nursing homes ; Care homes ; Management [care] ; Quality ; Leeds. |
| Annotation | A sample of 46 registered residential and nursing homes in Leeds health district providing long term care for people with dementia was examined in this study. Each home's environmental quality was assessed using the Rating Scales for the Assessment of Environments for the Confused Elderly. More than 90% of the homes had high quality scores on at least two measures. Provision of reality orientation cues was usually poor. Nursing homes catering specifically for mentally infirm older people had more restrictive care practices, whilst local authority residential homes had a better provision of recreational facilities. Private sector homes were in much better condition than public sector homes, but their care practices were more institutional; this may be related to the provision of nursing and mentally infirm care almost exclusively by the private sector. Space availability was measured by 11 items covering size relative to numbers of residents and diversity of rooms available: 33 homes scored high, and 6 low. The environmental quality of community-based residential care is generally good, but improvements could be made, particularly with reality orientation cues. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000824235 A |
| Classmark | EA: LHB: KW: QA: 59: 88B |
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