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Older people at the interface — a study of the provision of services for older people within Parkside Health Authority
Author(s)	Elizabeth Young, Paul Wallace, Christina Victor
Corporate Author	Helen Hamlyn Research Unit
Publisher	Department of General Practice St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, 1991
Pages	46 pp + appendices (Helen Hamlyn Research Unit occasional paper no 10)
Keywords	Discharge [hospitals] ; Services ; Community care ; Social surveys ; Brent ; Kensington and Chelsea ; Westminster, City of.
Annotation	Parkside Health Authority covers parts of Brent, Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster. This research report examines the experiences of older people and the staff working with them in three hospitals, concentrating on admission and discharge from hospital. There was considerable variation across and within hospitals - of relevance in the context of the Community Care Act. Contents: aims of the study; theory of the interface; methodology; information transfer; allocation of responsibilities; resources and decisions; theory versus reality at the interface; recommendations and action check list; appendices. [RHb] [EPICS collection].
Accession Number	CPA-980216047 B
Classmark	LD:QKJ: I: PA: 3F: 82L6: 82LL: 82LY
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