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View article: Use of a digital application to enhance communication and triage between care homes and national health service community services in the United Kingdom: a qualitative evaluation
Use of a digital application to enhance communication and triage between care homes and national health service community services in the United Kingdom: a qualitative evaluation Open
Recent years have seen a rise in digital interventions to improve coordination between care homes and NHS services, supporting remote sharing of data on the health of care home residents. Such interventions were key components in the respo…
View article: ‘This is the core of what we do’: a qualitative study of social prescribers’ attitudes towards spiritual health training and their future training needs
‘This is the core of what we do’: a qualitative study of social prescribers’ attitudes towards spiritual health training and their future training needs Open
View article: Are participants with disability referred for social prescribing? Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Are participants with disability referred for social prescribing? Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing Open
Background Social prescribing connects NHS patients to activities, groups, and services in their community to address wider health determinants. Those living with disability may have needs for support from social prescribing, yet there is …
View article: Care professionals’ accounts of providing support and treatment for people with co-occurring alcohol use disorder and depression in the North East of England, UK: A qualitative study informed by complexity theory
Care professionals’ accounts of providing support and treatment for people with co-occurring alcohol use disorder and depression in the North East of England, UK: A qualitative study informed by complexity theory Open
Introduction There is an acknowledged care gap for patients with co-occurring substance use and mental ill-health. This study sought to use complexity theory to help make sense of the experiences of people who deliver or commission formal …
View article: Co-locating frailty intervention activities and general practice: experiences and perceptions of participants and delivery partners
Co-locating frailty intervention activities and general practice: experiences and perceptions of participants and delivery partners Open
Background Physical activity interventions targeting frailty improve health in later life. Integrating these with Primary Care services may enhance perceptions and outcomes of delivery. Every Move Matters (EMM) is an 8-week group-based fra…
View article: Discussing spiritual health in primary care and UK Social Prescribing
Discussing spiritual health in primary care and UK Social Prescribing Open
View article: Targeting everyday decision makers in research: early career researcher and patient and public involvement and engagement collaboration in an AI-in-healthcare project
Targeting everyday decision makers in research: early career researcher and patient and public involvement and engagement collaboration in an AI-in-healthcare project Open
View article: A European Association for Palliative Care White Paper defining an integrative palliative, geriatric, and rehabilitative approach to care and support for older people living with frailty and their family carers: a 28-country Delphi study and recommendations
A European Association for Palliative Care White Paper defining an integrative palliative, geriatric, and rehabilitative approach to care and support for older people living with frailty and their family carers: a 28-country Delphi study and recommendations Open
View article: Piloting a minimum data set (MDS) in english care homes: a qualitative study of professional perspectives on implementation and data use
Piloting a minimum data set (MDS) in english care homes: a qualitative study of professional perspectives on implementation and data use Open
Background Digitalisation within English care homes offers potential to make more effective use of substantial data collected by staff during care planning and recording. A pilot minimum data set was co-designed with stakeholders based on …
View article: The conceptualisation and measurement of social frailty in older people: an umbrella review
The conceptualisation and measurement of social frailty in older people: an umbrella review Open
The use of diverse indicators creates a challenge for the measurement of social frailty. Their limited use in health and social care practice undermines the practical utility of the concept. This review helps to provide conceptual clarity …
View article: The meaning of ‘quality’ of homecare for older people: a scoping review
The meaning of ‘quality’ of homecare for older people: a scoping review Open
Background How quality of care in homecare for older people is understood is important, because it influences how quality in homecare is delivered, improved, regulated and measured. We conducted a scoping review to summarise the meanings o…
View article: Equity focused workshops: Developing a supplementary method to judge the equity of health interventions
Equity focused workshops: Developing a supplementary method to judge the equity of health interventions Open
Systematic reviews that consider the equity of interventions are an important method. However, this approach can be limited when analyses of inequity for a specific intervention are rare. We aimed to develop and pilot Equity-Focused Worksh…
View article: Missing the bus: Impacts of loss of bus services on the wellbeing of older adults
Missing the bus: Impacts of loss of bus services on the wellbeing of older adults Open
View article: End-of-life dementia care: a qualitative study of the experiences and perceptions of minority ethnic and economically disadvantaged groups
End-of-life dementia care: a qualitative study of the experiences and perceptions of minority ethnic and economically disadvantaged groups Open
Background Dementia is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality amongst ageing populations. However, palliative care is often poor or non-existent. People from minority ethnic and economically disadvantaged communities are especially lik…
View article: Bereavement Training in the Workplace, Can it Help Bridge the Grief Support Gap? A Qualitative Evaluation of Employers’ and Employees’ Views
Bereavement Training in the Workplace, Can it Help Bridge the Grief Support Gap? A Qualitative Evaluation of Employers’ and Employees’ Views Open
Background Bereavement is universal, whilst grief is a natural response to loss, it can have detrimental effects on physical and mental well-being. Bereavement support is not widely available, and workplaces could play a key role in provid…
View article: Which acute deterioration tools are used in long-term care facilities and how have they been evaluated? A scoping review
Which acute deterioration tools are used in long-term care facilities and how have they been evaluated? A scoping review Open
View article: Ethnic inequalities in palliative care prescribing in high income countries – a rapid systematic review
Ethnic inequalities in palliative care prescribing in high income countries – a rapid systematic review Open
View article: Exploring older people’s end-of-life care preferences over time: A scoping review
Exploring older people’s end-of-life care preferences over time: A scoping review Open
Background: Understanding the evolution of end-of-life preferences over time is important for dynamic, person-centred palliative care. This is particularly relevant for older people whose preferences can be incompletely expressed and subje…
View article: Routine data collection in home care: a national survey of home care providers in England
Routine data collection in home care: a national survey of home care providers in England Open
Purpose Mandatory digital social care records and a standardised schedule for collecting information on home care clients are proposed for regulated adult social care providers in England. This could facilitate the introduction of a minimu…
View article: Organising general practice for care homes: a multi-method study
Organising general practice for care homes: a multi-method study Open
Background General practice provides first-line National Health Service care for around 400,000 care home residents. Good primary care can enhance residents’ health and well-being and optimise use of hospital services. Objectives This stud…
View article: ‘Do I actually even need all these tablets?’ A qualitative study exploring deprescribing decision-making for people in receipt of palliative care and their family members
‘Do I actually even need all these tablets?’ A qualitative study exploring deprescribing decision-making for people in receipt of palliative care and their family members Open
Background: For people in receipt of palliative care, where polypharmacy is common and medication burden is high, there remains limited knowledge around the decision-making processes that underpin deprescribing; for example, recent depresc…
View article: Area-level socioeconomic inequalities in activities of daily living disability-free life expectancy in England: a modelling study
Area-level socioeconomic inequalities in activities of daily living disability-free life expectancy in England: a modelling study Open
National Institute for Health and Care Research Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing.
View article: Differences in the risk of frailty based on care receipt, unmet care needs and socio-economic inequalities: A longitudinal analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Differences in the risk of frailty based on care receipt, unmet care needs and socio-economic inequalities: A longitudinal analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing Open
View article: Dying in residential care homes during the early COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study
Dying in residential care homes during the early COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study Open
Background Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, care homes (long-term care facilities) globally were severely impacted in many ways, including end-of-life care and death of residents. They experienced significantly elevated mortality rates amon…
View article: Understanding polypharmacy for people receiving home care services: a scoping review of the evidence
Understanding polypharmacy for people receiving home care services: a scoping review of the evidence Open
Background Polypharmacy, defined as the concurrent use of five or more medications, is common amongst older adults receiving home care services. The relationship between home care and polypharmacy may be critical to older people’s health, …
View article: Public Involvement to Enhance Care Home Research; Collaboration on a Minimum Data Set for Care Homes
Public Involvement to Enhance Care Home Research; Collaboration on a Minimum Data Set for Care Homes Open
Introduction Information on care home residents in England is captured in numerous data sets (care home records, General Practitioner records, community nursing, etc.) but little of this information is currently analysed in a way that is u…
View article: Which unmet social care needs have the biggest impact on healthy ageing? An analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Which unmet social care needs have the biggest impact on healthy ageing? An analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing Open
Background and aim Unmet need for social care is linked to numerous adverse health outcomes. Understanding which unmet needs have the biggest impact on healthy ageing could help resource-stretched services prioritise care. To address this …
View article: Piloting a minimum data set for older people living in care homes in England: a developmental study
Piloting a minimum data set for older people living in care homes in England: a developmental study Open
Background We developed a prototype minimum data set (MDS) for English care homes, assessing feasibility of extracting data directly from digital care records (DCRs) with linkage to health and social care data. Methods Through stakeholder …
View article: Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional study
Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional study Open
Objectives To assess the feasibility of capturing older care home residents’ quality of life (QoL) in digital social care records and the construct validity (hypothesis testing) and internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) of four QoL measu…
View article: Community-based physical and social activity for older adults with mild frailty: a rapid qualitative study of a collaborative intervention pilot
Community-based physical and social activity for older adults with mild frailty: a rapid qualitative study of a collaborative intervention pilot Open