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Hospital discharge
— lost opportunities to promote or maintain older people's mental health | | Author(s) | Tarran Haskey Macmillan |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol 17, no 3, 2016 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2016 |
| Pages | pp 189-197 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/qaoa.htm |
| Keywords | Mental health [elderly] ; Dementia ; Neglect [care] ; Anxiety ; Well being ; In-patients ; Discharge [hospitals] ; Qualitative Studies ; England. |
| Annotation | The impact of hospital discharge on the wider well-being of older people and their carers is explored, along with its implications for mental health. This paper is based on research from the Healthwatch England Special Inquiry into hospital discharge ('Safely home', 2015). It focuses on the experiences of 1,300 older people; most of the research was undertaken by the local Healthwatch network. The 58 local Healthwatch who submitted evidence on the experiences of older people as part of the inquiry were autonomous in how they carried out the research. The results were analysed using a qualitative framework. This paper examines these issues in detail through case studies collected regarding older people; and it exposes the impact poor discharge can have on physical and mental well-being for older patients. The paper presents a number of issues which have implications for policy and practice in both health and social care, and the integration of the two services. Older people often felt they were not ready for discharge, due to not feeling involved in planning of their discharge, being discharged without the information they need, and having difficulties accessing aftercare support. This paper examines the impact these issues can have on the mental health and well-being of older people, their carers and specifically patients with dementia both during and after discharge from hospital. Through examination of these issues the discharge process can be viewed from the perspective of the individual, and start to conceptualise where the hospital discharge process could further support older people's mental health and well-being. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170512204 A |
| Classmark | D: EA: QNR: ENP: D:F:5HH: LF7: LD:QKJ: 3DP: 82 |
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