Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 12 Issue 4
Promoting excellence in services through research, policy and practice
Table of contents
Implementing functional assessment in older adult care: the experience of direct care staff
William SpenceThe paper reports on the implementation of the Revised Elderly Persons' Disability Scale use – a 53‐item, seven sub‐scale functional assessment tool – in a range of older adult…
Development of joint user/patient outcome measures for older adults with mental health problems
David Walton, Michael Fullerton, Seraphim PatelThis paper seeks to discuss the collaborative development and piloting of joint user outcome measures for older adults with mental health problems (OAMH) and their carers. Outcome…
People, pets and care homes: a story of ambivalence
Randall Smith, Julia Johnson, Sheena RolphThe purpose of this paper is to examine the history of pet ownership and its relationship to wellbeing in later life. In particular, the paper addresses the issue of pet ownership…
Researching death: some reflections on life
Daniel BriggsThe paper seeks to make reflections on some ethnographic work undertaken with dying patients. The reflections cover the practical and social implications of carrying out this work…
Use of the internet in assessing service provision for older people
Clive P. Mitchell, Gareth Morgan, John GallacherThe evaluation of primary and other care services for older people remains difficult due to the challenges of cost‐effective sampling and assessment of older people's views. The…
Alcohol use in later life – older people's perspectives
Lizzie Ward, Marian Barnes, Beatrice GahaganThere has been increasing recognition that alcohol may be a source of problems for older people. This has been reflected in the increase in alcohol‐related hospital admissions for…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Fiona Poland