Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 7 Issue 3

Editorial: Transitions in care homes meeting the demands of the 21st century

Ingrid Eyers, Mike Nolan, Julienne Meyer, Jan Reed, Wendy Knibb

Transitions in care homes: towards relationship‐centred care using the ‘Senses Framework’

Mike Nolan, Sue Davies, Jayne Brown

Long‐term care in general, and care homes in particular, have never enjoyed high status as a place to live and work. This remains the case. In large part this marginalised…

The CARE (Combined Assessment Of Residential Environments) profiles: a new approach to improving quality in care homes

Mark Faulkner, Sue Davies

This paper briefly describes the rationale for and the development of the CARE (Combined Assessment of Residential Environments) profiles. The CARE profiles represent a new…

The joys and tribulations of partnership working in care homes for older people

K Froggatt, S Davies, L Atkinson, B Aveyard, S Binney, Y Kent, S McCaffrey, C Townend

Partnership working in care homes for older people does happen, but the nature of this approach to improving the care provided in care homes has not been well articulated. Drawing…

Assessing care home quality using routine regulatory information

Angela Worden, David Challis

Quality is an essential criterion by which care homes for older people are judged. However the measurement of quality is both challenging and potentially costly. This paper…

Book review: Looking Forward to Care in Old Age Expectations of the Next Generation

Christine Smith