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Monitoring residents in sheltered/retirement housing — a workshop : 2 April 2003
Corporate Author	Centre for Social Policy and Social Work, University of Sussex; Sussex Gerontology Network, Sheltered Housing Group
Publisher	School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, 2003
Pages	14 pp
Source	Professor Peter Lloyd, School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9SN.
Keywords	Sheltered housing ; Wardens ; Management [care] ; Conference proceedings ; East Sussex.
Annotation	Monitoring the wellbeing of residents has always been one of the prime roles of the sheltered housing scheme manager. However, now that many scheme managers are becoming non-resident and off-site more often, these roles are changing. With the availability of electronic modes of surveillance, there would seem to be less time available for the more personal modes of monitoring. Given that "supervision and monitoring of health" is an important element of the Supporting People policy, how might sheltered housing fulfil the task of monitoring well-being? To answer this, the Workshop heard presentations on Supporting People, the "ring-round" (or morning call to residents); assistive technology; record keeping; and residents' views. Good practice points emerging from workshop groups are summarised. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-030610208 P
Classmark	KLA: QRW: QA: 6M: 8E *
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