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Privacy and Dignity in Continence Care Guidelines. Reflective Guidelines for Health and Social Care Settings.

Billings, Jenny R. (2009) Privacy and Dignity in Continence Care Guidelines. Reflective Guidelines for Health and Social Care Settings. Project report. Centre for Health Services Studies, Canterbury (KAR id:34864)

Abstract

These guidelines are based on the findings from the project ‘Privacy and Dignity in Continence Care for Older People’, funded and supported by the Royal College of Physicians and British Geriatrics Society. The aim of this two year project was to develop a set of guidelines that can help caregivers in a variety of health and social care settings reflect on their practice with respect to maintaining privacy and dignity in continence care. Other dignity guidelines and toolkits have been developed, but not with the focus specifically on continence. The rationale for this is that, however good the care, people with continence problems in an institutional setting have a high chance of suffering loss of dignity because they need help with very intimate care, and this can have a long term effect on self-esteem and self-respect.

Item Type: Reports and Papers (Project report)
Subjects: R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC952 Geriatrics
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Centre for Health Services Studies
Funders: Royal College of Physicians (https://ror.org/0530xmm89)
British Geriatrics Society (https://ror.org/04wyyg856)
Depositing User: Tony Rees
Date Deposited: 26 Jul 2013 13:14 UTC
Last Modified: 12 Jul 2022 10:40 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/34864 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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