Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 2 Issue 1
Promoting excellence in services through research, policy and practice
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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 RobinsonRespite 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…
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The inappropriate placement of older people in nursing homes in England and Wales: a national audit
Christina Victor, Ian Hastie, Georgina Christodoulou, Peter MillardDespite the new ‘needs driven’ criteria for public funded admission to nursing homes, there remains concern that older people are entering such care inappropriately. However…
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Practical solutions for the integration of community alarms, assistive technologies and telecare
Kevin Doughty, Gareth WilliamsThe 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…
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ISSN:
1471-7794Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Prof Fiona Poland