Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 2 Issue 1

Promoting excellence in services through research, policy and practice

Subjects:

Table of contents

Breaking the mould: developing a new service for people with dementia and their carers

Anne Perks, Mike Nolan, Tony Ryan, Pam Enderby, Isabel Hemmings, Karen Robinson

Respite care or ‘short breaks’ are currently heavily promoted as services to support older people and their carers. However, uptake of such services can be limited and there is a…

The inappropriate placement of older people in nursing homes in England and Wales: a national audit

Christina Victor, Ian Hastie, Georgina Christodoulou, Peter Millard

Despite the new ‘needs driven’ criteria for public funded admission to nursing homes, there remains concern that older people are entering such care inappropriately. However…

Practical solutions for the integration of community alarms, assistive technologies and telecare

Kevin Doughty, Gareth Williams

The use of telecare with appropriate domiciliary care packages may provide the means to manage many of the risks associated with the increasing number of older people who wish to…

Cover of Quality in Ageing and Older Adults

ISSN:

1471-7794

Online date, start – end:

2000

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Fiona Poland