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| Developing an integrated assessment tool for the health and social care of older people | | Author(s) | Brian J Taylor |
| Journal title | British Journal of Social Work, vol 42, no 7, October 2012 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, October 2012 |
| Pages | pp 1293-1314 |
| Source | www.bjsw.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Social welfare ; Evaluation ; Measurement ; Instruments ; Northern Ireland. |
| Annotation | Assessment tools have a key function in relation to co-ordinating care, communication between professionals and gathering data for monitoring and service improvement. There are challenges facing co-ordinated assessment processes in health and social care of older people because of the wide variety of care pathways in primary, acute, `intermediate' and community care settings. This paper outlines the development of the Northern Ireland Single Assessment Tool (NISAT) for the health and social care of older people. The purpose of the tool is to facilitate access to appropriate health and social care interventions ranging from non-complex to complex co-ordinated care and to be suitable for use in primary, acute and community health and social care including intermediate care. The development involved stakeholders from a wide range of professions, older people and carers. The process included a survey of existing care management assessment tools, various working groups and testing reliability using vignettes and trained actors. Older people were engaged in a music, dance and visual arts project on the theme of assessment to inform the tool development. The components of the tool and their development are reviewed, including considering the role of social work in contributing to specialist assessment as distinct from the role of co-ordinating a holistic assessment process. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130315208 A |
| Classmark | CC: TY: 4C: 3R: YW4: 9Y |
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