There is a wealth of useful information and resources available on the internet regarding care of the elderly and we have cherry picked what Gorsey Cough regard as the most interesting and relevant articles.
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The Health and Social Care Act 2008
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 contains significant measures to modernise and integrate health and social care.
NHS funded nursing care in nursing homes.pdf
A document providing information on NHS funded nursing care for people in or about to enter a nursing home.
NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care
Leaflet produced to answer questions about NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care following the changes that came about with the introduction of the National Framework.
Mental Capacity Act 2005.pdf
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 provides a statutory framework to empower and protect vulnerable people who are not able to make their own decisions. It makes it clear who can take decisions, in which situations, and how they should go about this. It enables people to plan ahead for a time when they may lose capacity.
Nursing Care Bands
A document setting out the Registered Nursing Care Contribution Single Band Rate for 2010 onwards.
Supporting people with dementia and their carers.pdf
This guidence makes specific recommendations on Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), frontotemporal dementia, vascular dementia and mixed dementias, as well as recommendations that apply to all types of dementia. Dementia in Parkinson's disease shares a number of similarities with DLB.
The Alzheimer's Society has a number of informative factsheets that are very useful.
Take the Check! Action on Hearing Loss
Action on Hearing Loss in the new name for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) and has launched its telephone Hearing Check service. It's a five minute test by telephone in which callers repeat a series of numbers using the telephone keypad.
CQC Publications
CQC's Health and Social Care Regulation: Overview
A document setting out how the CQC regulates health and social care in England, what their priorities are and how they work.
The Essential Standards
The essential standards of quality and safety are central to the work the CQC does in regulating health and adult social care. Each of the standards has an associated outcome that the CQC expect all people who use services to experience as a result of the care they receive.
The standards relate to the 28 regulations contained in the legislation governing the CQC's work. When they check providers' compliance with the essential standards, the CQC focus on one or more of the 16 that most directly relate to the quality and safety of care. Providers must have evidence that they meet these outcomes.
Summary on Regulations, Outcomes, and Judgement Framework
A summary to help you understand how care services should comply with government standards.
What Standards you have a Right to Expect from your Care Home
Food and Nutrition
What to eat
Practical nutritional advice for eating a healthy and balanced diet.
Food served to older people in residential care.pdf
The Food Standards Agency's advice for healthy eating in residential care.
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