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Developing a measure of social care outcome for older people
— interim report | | Author(s) | Ann Netten, Paul Smith |
| Corporate Author | Personal Social Services Research Unit - PSSRU, University of Kent |
| Publisher | PSSRU, University of Kent, Canterbury, 1998 |
| Pages | various pagings (PSSRU discussion paper 1487) |
| Source | PSSRU, University of Kent, Cornwallis Building, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF. |
| Keywords | Needs [elderly] ; Self care capacity ; Nutrition ; Participation ; Evaluation ; Reports. |
| Annotation | An important aspect of identifying best value and monitoring cost-effective care, key Government policy objectives, is to be able to identify the outcomes of care. This discussion paper reports on a project commissioned by the Department of Health (DoH), as part of its Outcomes of Social Care for Adults Initiative, to develop a measure of outcome of social care for older people, focusing on the results of the first year. Five domains were identified as the key areas of outcome of social care: food and nutrition; personal care; safety; social participation and involvement; and control over daily life. For each of the domains there are question about the current levels of unmet need, whether informal carers and/or services play a role in meeting needs, and what the level of need would be in the absence of any service intervention. The instrument will be tested in the next stage of the project. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990309403 B |
| Classmark | IK: CA: CF: TMB: 4C: 6K |
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