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Residential care for adults: [quality of care]
Author(s)	Sheila Peace
Journal title	Research Matters: a digest of research in social services, issue 5, April-October 1998
Publisher	Community Care, Sutton, Surrey, April-October 1998
Pages	pp 70-72
Source	Research Matters Subscriptions, FREEPOST CN2908, Reed Business Information, Quadrant House, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5BR.
Keywords	Care homes ; Quality of life ; Evaluation ; Dementia ; Depression ; Research ; Literature reviews.
Annotation	Many factors influence the quality of life of older people in residential care. This article reviews research on assessing the quality of care. The study `Quality of care: testing some measures in homes for the elderly', carried out at the Personal Social Services Research Institute, University of Kent, considers depression as a possible indicator. This was confirmed by the presence of dementia in some form in a high proportion of residents in all homes in the study. This article also considers other aspects of the research: the relationship between health care and depression; medication; care planning; staffing issues; and the link between cost and quality. The research continues to reveal the multi-dimensional nature of quality in residential care and the complexity of assessment, and to confirm past findings.
Accession Number	CPA-980423005 A
Classmark	KW: F:59: 4C: EA: ENR: 3A: 64A
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