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| Holistic care for older inpatients | | Author(s) | Janis Smy |
| Journal title | Nursing Times, vol 102, no 20, 16 May 2006 |
| Pages | pp 16-17 |
| Source | http://www.nursingtimes.net |
| Keywords | In-patients ; Needs [elderly] ; Psychiatric treatment ; Medical care ; Medical workers ; Hospital services ; West Yorkshire. |
| Annotation | A team of nurses from West Yorkshire won an NT Award for training "older people's champions" to ensure patients' mental health needs, as well as physical needs are met. Kath Williams (team leader) and Suzanne Wightman (senior manager in practice development) from South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust have spent the past two years training, educating and supporting their general hospital colleagues in the identification and care of older patients who have mental health needs as well as the surgical or medical problem that brought them in to the hospital. Assisted by healthcare support worker Ruth Endecott and ward development manager Jo Crossland, they have recruited and trained a hospital-wide multidisciplinary team of older people's champions. Dementia care mapping (DCM) to improve the patient's healthcare journey has been introduced. The project, which was funded by the Department of Health (DH), has now come to an end. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060602207 A |
| Classmark | LF7: IK: LP: LK: QT: LD: 88 * |
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