| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Meeting the needs of older people living at home with dementia who have problems with continence | | Author(s) | Vari M Drennan, Jill Manthorpe, Steve Little |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol 18, no 4, 2017 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 246-253 |
| Source | http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/39705/1/Drennan-V-39... |
| Keywords | Incontinence ; Dementia ; Quality of life ; Living in the community ; Community care ; Home care services ; Care support workers. |
| Annotation | The authors discuss the question of how to meet the needs of older people living at home with dementia who have problems with continence. Their paper focuses on social care workers who are at the frontline of practice (including personal assistants and carers). The focus is on social care practice in community settings, and draws on the authors' research and experiences in clinical care, workforce development and service improvement. It summarises research on incontinence and its negative effects on quality of life and care relationships. It describes the impact of incontinence in terms of social embarrassment, restricted social activity, extra work (such as laundry) and costs, but also distress. It links research with care practice, with a focus on people with dementia who may be at particular risk of both continence problems and of assumptions that nothing can be done to assist them. This paper provides questions that could be addressed in commissioning and provision of services, and argues that they need to be informed by care practitioners' experiences. The paper provides details of sources of support that are available at national and local levels. This paper thus draws together research on continence and social care practice, to provide a series of self-assessment questions for local services. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-171208206 A |
| Classmark | CTM: EA: F:59: K4: PA: NH: QRS |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|