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Improving communication between hospitals and care homes — the development of a daily living plan for older people
Author(s)	Jan Reed, David Stanley
Journal title	Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 11, no 4, July 2003
Pages	pp 356-363
Keywords	Admission [hospitals] ; Admission [care homes] ; Planning [admin] ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services].
Annotation	The present UK study describes a practice-development project that produced a user-led daily living plan (DLP), which was developed in partnership with older people and staff from health and social care settings. The DLP was designed to facilitate communication of the daily living preferences of older people, ensuring that continuity of care and support could be maintained, and that their future care can be planned on an individual basis when they move from hospital to a care home. In the process of developing and implementing the DLP, more effective person-centred communication between hospitals and care homes was achieved, and some of the hospital staff's ideas about care homes changed. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-030703205 A
Classmark	LD:QKH: KW:QKH: QA6: QAJ: QK6
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