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| The home-visiting process for older people in the in-patient intermediate care services | | Author(s) | Jane Hibberd |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing, vol 9, issue 1, March 2008 |
| Pages | pp 13-23 |
| Source | http://www.pavpub.com |
| Keywords | Home visits [doctors] ; Discharged patients ; Admission [hospitals] ; Delayed discharge ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | Older people account for a significant proportion of users of health and social care services (Wanless, Securing good care for older people, 2006). Within current constraints on health and social care services, it is essential that interventions such as home visits for older people can be seen to be appropriately deployed resources for facilitating their safe and timely discharge home. This paper discusses the findings of an evaluation project undertaken in 2003/04 within two in-patient intermediate care services. The service provided short-term intervention for older people, with an emphasis on rehabilitation to enable a safe return to their own home environment. Reports in 2003 by the National Audit Office (NAO) and the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts concerning effective discharge of older patients from NHS acute hospitals provided evidence that delayed discharge is a significant problem, causes of which included delays in assessing patients, shortages of occupational therapists and lack of integrated therapy services. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080320202 A |
| Classmark | L5H: LFD: LD:QKH: LD:QKM: 4C |
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