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Advancing care
— research with care homes | | Author(s) | Kristina Staley, Tara Lamont, Tannaze Tinati, Tansy Evans |
| Corporate Author | National Institute for Health Research - NIHR; NIHR Dissemination Centre |
| Publisher | National Institute for Health Research, July 2017 |
| Pages | 44 pp (Themed review) |
| Source | http://www.dc.nihr.ac.uk/themed-reviews/advancing-... |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Quality of life ; Health [elderly] ; Chronic illness ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | More than 400,000 older people live in 19,000 independently owned care homes in the UK. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has funded this themed research review, which focuses on studies wholly or partly funded by the NIHR on three main themes relating to the care of care home residents. First, Living well, on maintaining good health and quality of life, also considers routine health checks, preventing avoidable health problems. improving nutrition, and finding better ways to reduce depression and pain and manage incontinence. Second, Ageing Well, concerns managing long-term conditions associated with ageing, particularly finding ways to improve the care of those living with dementia; identifying the needs of ageing residents with multiple serious conditions; and strategies to reduce medication errors, and avoid hospital admissions. Lastly, Dying Well, on ensuring a good quality end of life, looks at preferred place of death, supporting the very old at the end of life, and end of life care of people with dementia. Summaries of the studies and associated references are provided. Further areas of study to build on what has been learned to date are suggested, given a new and relatively undeveloped research base. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-170801001 B |
| Classmark | KX: KW: F:59: CC: CI: CX: LV: 3A:6KC |
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