Working with Older People: Volume 19 Issue 2

Surveillance technologies in care homes: seven principles for their use

Malcolm John Fisk

The purpose of this paper is to consider the use of surveillance technologies in care homes and the way in which they can help protect older people. It signals an ethical way…

How NHS Sutton Clinical Commissioning Group is working with care homes to improve the health and wellbeing of older residents

Christine Harger

The purpose of this paper is to describe how NHS Sutton Clinical Commissioning Group (Sutton CCG) is working with nursing homes, residential homes and other health and social care…

Perceptions of care home staff on the effect of the care home environment for individuals living with dementia

Sally Dawn Boyden

The purpose of this paper is to explore what existing literature about the care home environment for people with dementia reveals. It also evaluates the implications for practice…

Implementing person centred dementia care: a musical intervention

Elaine Argyle, Tony Kelly

Recent years have seen the advocacy of person-centred approaches to dementia care. An important component of this approach has been the use of arts in the promotion of health and…

Contracts and commissioning: what’s happening to social care services for black and minority ethnic older people

Valerie Lipman

The purpose of this paper is to explore current provision of targeted social care services for the growing populations of Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) older people in England…

Parent? Carer? Mid-lifer? Older person? Similarities and diversities across different experiences of caring and their implications for practice

Jill Manthorpe, Jo Moriarty, Michelle Cornes

The purpose of this paper is to consider the experiences of carers caring for an adult child, particularly as they affect the transition from midlife into older age. It explores…

Editorial

Deborah Klee