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Intermediate care for older people
— using action research to develop reflective nursing practice in a rehabilitation setting | | Author(s) | Gill Walker, Fiona Poland |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing - policy, practice and research, vol 1 no 2, December 2000 |
| Pages | pp 31-42 |
| Keywords | Rehabilitation ; Aftercare ; Nursing. |
| Annotation | The development of intermediate care options for older people is gaining increasing prominence in the UK with the promotion of new health and social care partnerships. This article draws on a case study of nursing staff working with older people in a newly-defined rehabilitation setting in a Welsh community hospital. The action research cycle reported focused on collaborative interventions for bringing about changes in thinking and practice from a "doing for" to an "enabling" rehabilitative style of nursing. Responses by staff to a questionnaire highlighted differing assumptions between differing grades of nursing staff and between nurses and therapists about the nature of the rehabilitative process and how far it could be integrated with nursing care. The article discusses how the action research process supported a shared change in perspective that progress needed to be made to work in an integrated rehabilitative way. Participative approaches, such as action research, should be drawn on if rehabilitation's cost-effective benefits for older people are to be more actively realised. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010124204 A |
| Classmark | LM: LN: LQ |
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