Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 10 Issue 3

Editorial

Mike Nolan

Re‐visioning respite: a culture change initiative in a long‐term care setting in Eire

Marguerite Kelly, Eileen McSweeney

Respite care is one of the services most frequently requested by family carers, but places are often not taken up because of carers' concerns about the quality of the respite…

All Together Now

Nick Andrews, Deborah Driffield, Vicky Poole

The need for more holistic and inclusive approaches to assessment and care management for older people is widely promoted but difficult to achieve. This paper describes the All…

Enhancing learning in care settings: the Profile of Learning Achievements in Care Environments (PLACE) project

Jayne Brown, Yvonne Robb, Kathleen Duffy, Andrew Lowndes

This paper argues that all parties in care settings ‐ that is, older people and their carers, qualified and unqualified staff and students ‐ have learning needs, and that an…

Ensuring high quality health and social care for our older population: residential care in Ireland as a case example

Irene O'Connor

Southern Ireland faces similar challenges to the rest of Europe in that it has a rapidly increasing older population, seemingly infinite demand for health and social care and…

Relational practice as the key to ensuring quality care for frail older people: discharge planning as a case example

Sion Williams, Mike Nolan, John Keady

Discharging frail older people from acute hospital settings has been an issue of concern for over 40 years and recent studies suggest that enduring problems remain. This paper…