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Intensive Care Management at Home: An Alternative to Institutional Care?

Challis, David J., Darton, Robin, Hughes, Jane, Stewart, Karen, Weiner, Kate (2001) Intensive Care Management at Home: An Alternative to Institutional Care? Age and Ageing, 30 (5). pp. 409-413. ISSN 0002-0729. (doi:10.1093/ageing/30.5.409) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:26728)

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Abstract

Background: care management and assessment of need are the cornerstones of the community care reforms in the UK. Although much of the research base has been on highly vulnerable older people, in practice, care management has been implemented for a wider group.

Objective: to examine how intensive care?management at home has developed.

Design: postal survey of all local authority social services departments in England.

Method: we used an overview questionnaire (85% response) and an old?age services questionnaire (77% response). We classified local authorities according to the presence or absence of seven indicators of intensive care management at home.

Results: 97% of social services departments had a goal of providing a community?based alternative to residential and nursing?home care. However, only 5% had specialist intensive care?management services for older people. Other key indicators of intensive care?management, such as devolved budgets, health service care managers, small caseloads and clear eligibility criteria, were uncommon.

Conclusions: there was little evidence of intensive care?management at home in older peoples' services. This is of concern, given the move towards community?based provision for frail older people. Closer links between secondary health?care services (such as geriatric medicine) and intensive care?management at home may promote more effective care at home for those who are most vulnerable.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1093/ageing/30.5.409
Uncontrolled keywords: care management; community care; intensive care management at home; prevention; secondary health care
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Personal Social Services Research Unit
Depositing User: Robin Darton
Date Deposited: 21 May 2011 01:36 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:05 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/26728 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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