Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 7 Issue 4

Editorial

Ingrid Eyers, Wendy Knibb

Competition and choice in the care home sector for older people: A case study of the market in Surrey

Wendy Knibb

Competition in the care home sector for older people is encouraged as a means of increasing efficiency, driving down prices and raising quality. Choice is promoted to meet user…

Transitions to a care home ‐ the importance of choice and control: Seminar report

Jan Reed, David Stanley

This paper reports on a seminar organised as part of an ESRC‐funded series on older people and care homes that focused on the period of transition into a care home and the…

Improving care transitions of older people: Challenges for today and tomorrow

Julianne Cheek, Alison Ballantyne, David Gillham, Jane Mussared, Penny Flett, Gill Lewin, Marita Walker, Gerda Roder‐Allen, James Quan, Suzanne Vandermeulen

Enabling optimal care transitions for older people remains a key challenge facing policy‐makers and service providers. This qualitative Australian study aimed to provide a…

Moving from victim blaming to an appreciative inquiry: Exploring quality of life in care homes

Julienne Meyer, Hazel Heath, Cheryl Holman, Tom Owen

This paper highlights the need for researchers to work across disciplinary boundaries in order to capture the complexity that care practitioners have to engage with everyday in…

Professionalising the care of older people: Transforming the workforce

Ingrid Eyers, Karen Bryan

Key to successfully addressing the ongoing transitions being experienced in the care home sector is a transformation of the workforce. This is required in order to respond…