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Making care homes part of the community?
— An evaluation of the Gloucestershire Partnerships for Older People Project | | Author(s) | Simon Evans, Robin Means, Jane Powell |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol 14, no 1, 2013 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2013 |
| Pages | pp 66-74 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/qaoa.htm |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Services ; Health services ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Projects ; Pilot ; Evaluation ; Gloucestershire. |
| Annotation | The Care Homes, Part of our Community initiative in Gloucestershire was one of 29 Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPPs) funded by the Department of Health (DH) between 2006 and 2009, with an emphasis on prevention and improved outcomes for older people. This paper provides an overview of the policy context and the project, which aimed to improve the integration of care homes with health and social care services and the wider community. The Gloucestershire POPP centred on two areas of work, the first being a care home support team (CHST), which aimed to improve clinical support in the care homes participating, to reduce crisis interventions such as emergency admissions to hospital. The second was an outreach service to develop care homes' capacity and role; this was led by the Gloucestershire Care Providers Association. This article describes the project's evaluation, which adopted a mixed methods approach, combining quantitative performance data with semi-structured stakeholder interviews and emergency bed use costings. It presents the findings in 3 specific areas: integrating care homes with the health community, improving links with the local public community, and the economic evaluation of its contribution to reducing overnight stays in hospital. The evaluation results suggest that the project made significant steps towards integrating care homes with the health and social care community, that training and support was provided to a large number of care homes and new integrated working practices were developed, and that cost savings were demonstrated through reduced hospital bed use. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170616225 A |
| Classmark | KW: I: L: QK6: 3E: 4UC: 4C: 8G |
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