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Article

Towers, Ann-Marie and Palmer, Sinead and Smith, Nick and Collins, Grace and Allan, Stephen (2019) A cross-sectional study exploring the relationship between regulator quality ratings and care home residents' quality of life in England. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 17 (22). E-ISSN 1477-7525. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-019-1093-1) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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Rand, Stacey and Towers, Ann-Marie and Razik, Kamilla and Turnpenny, Agnes and Bradshaw, Jill and Caiels, James and Smith, Nick (2019) Feasibility, factor structure and construct validity of the easy-read Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT-ER). Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, . ISSN 1366-8250. (In press) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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Smith, Nick and Towers, Ann-Marie and Palmer, Sinead and Beecham, Jennifer and Welch, Elizabeth (2018) Being Occupied: Supporting ‘meaningful activity’ in care homes for older people in England. Ageing and Society, 38 (11). pp. 2218-2240. ISSN 0144-686X. E-ISSN 1469-1779. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X17000678) (Full text available)
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Welch, Elizabeth and Palmer, Sinead and Towers, Ann-Marie and Smith, Nick (2016) Why are relatives of care home residents reluctant to ‘rock the boat’? Is there a culture of acceptance? Working with Older People, 21 (2). pp. 124-132. ISSN 1366-3666. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/WWOP-10-2016-0030) (Full text available)
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Towers, Ann-Marie and Smith, Nick and Palmer, Sinead and Welch, Elizabeth and Netten, Ann (2016) The acceptability and feasibility of using the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) to inform practice in care homes. Bmc Health Services Research, . ISSN 1472-6963. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1763-1) (Full text available)
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Towers, Ann-Marie and Holder, Jacquetta and Smith, Nick and Netten, Ann and Welch, Elizabeth and Crowther, Tanya and Collins, Grace and Bass, Rosalyn (2015) Adapting the adult social care outcomes toolkit (ASCOT) for use in care home quality monitoring: conceptual development and testing. BMC Health Services Research, (15:304). (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-0942-9) (Full text available)
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Van Leeuwen, Karen and Bosmans, Judith and Jansen, Aaltje PD and Rand, Stacey and Towers, Ann-Marie and Smith, Nick and Razik, Kamilla and Trukeschitz, Birgit and van Tulder, Maurits and van der Horst, Henriette and Ostelo, Raymond (2015) Dutch translation and cross-cultural validation of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT). Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 13 (56). ISSN 1477-7525. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-015-0249-x) (Full text available)
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Clarke, John and Smith, Nick and Vidler, Elizabeth (2006) The Indeterminacy of Choice: Political, Policy and Organisational Implications. Social Policy and Society, 5 (03). pp. 327-336. ISSN 1474-7464. E-ISSN 1475-3073. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746406003010) (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)

Calnan, Michael .W. and Almond, Stephen and Smith, Nick (2003) Ageing and public satisfaction with the health service: An analysis of recent trends. Social Science and Medicine, 57 (4). pp. 757-762. ISSN 0277-9536. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00128-X) (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)

Book section

Clarke, John and Smith, Nick and Vidler, Elizabeth (2005) Consumerism and the reform of public services: inequalities and instabilities. In: Social Policy Review 17: Analysis and debate in social policy. The Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 167-182. ISBN 1-86134-669-7. (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)

Monograph

Beadle-Brown, Julie and Towers, Ann-Marie and Netten, Ann and Smith, Nick and Trukeschitz, Birgit and Welch, Elizabeth (2011) ASCOT Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit: Additional Care Home Guidance v2.1 PSSRU Discussion Paper 2716/2_1, University of Kent. Manual. Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent, Canterbury (Full text available)
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Netten, Ann and Beadle-Brown, Julie and Caiels, James and Forder, Julien E. and Malley, Juliette and Smith, Nick and Towers, Ann-Marie and Trukeschitz, Birgit and Welch, Elizabeth and Windle, Karen (2011) ASCOT Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit: Main Guidance v2.1 PSSRU Discussion Paper 2716/3, University of Kent. Manual. Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent, Canterbury (Full text available)
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Netten, Ann and Forder, Julien E. and Malley, Juliette and Smith, Nick and Towers, Ann-Marie (2011) ASCOT Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit: Additional guidance Scoring ASCOT v2.1. Manual. Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent,, Canterbury (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)

Caiels, James and Fox, Diane and McCarthy, Michelle and Smith, Nick and Malley, Juliette and Beadle-Brown, Julie and Netten, Ann and Towers, Ann-Marie (2010) Development studies for the National Adult Social Care User Experience Survey: technical report. Technical report. Personal Social Services Research Unit (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)

Malley, Juliette and Caiels, James and Fox, Diane and McCarthy, Michelle and Smith, Nick and Beadle-Brown, Julie and Netten, Ann and Towers, Ann-Marie (2010) A report on the development studies for the National Social Care User Experience Survey. Discussion paper. Personal Social Services Research Unit (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)

Conference or workshop item

Collins, Grace and Towers, Ann-Marie and Smith, Nick and Palmer, Sinead and Naick, Madeline and Babaian, Jacinta (2018) Engaging with care home managers. In: British Society of Gerontology Conference, 4-6 Jul 2018, Manchester. (Unpublished) (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)

Towers, Ann-Marie and Rider, Sinead and Smith, Nick and Welch, Elizabeth (2016) Can Feedback to care home staff help improve residents' quality of life? In: British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference, 1-3 Sept 2014, Southampton. (Unpublished) (Full text available)
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Collins, Grace and Towers, Ann-Marie and Smith, Nick and Palmer, Sinead (2016) Conducting research in care homes during times of austerity: lessons learned from two research studies involving care homes for older adults in England. In: BSG Conference, July 2016, Stirling, Scotland. (Full text available)
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Welch, Elizabeth and Rider, Sinead and Towers, Ann-Marie and Smith, Nick (2014) Living in a care home for older adults: the family members' experience. In: 43rd Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology: New understandings of old age and the lifecourse, 1st - 3rd September 2014, Southampton. (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)

Smith, Nick and Towers, Ann-Marie and Rider, Sinead and Welch, Elizabeth (2014) Using ASCOT to inform care practice. In: The International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-term Care, 31 August to 3 September 2014, London School of Economics, London. (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)

Towers, Ann-Marie and Rider, Sinead and Smith, Nick and Welch, Elizabeth (2014) Can feedback to care home staff help improve residents’ quality of life? In: Margaret Butterworth Care Forum, May 2014, Kings College, London. (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)

Smith, Nick (2014) Using ASCOT to improve care practice and monitor quality in care homes. In: Annual ASCOT Workshop, 31st March 2014, London. (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)

Towers, Ann-Marie and Holder, Jacquetta and Smith, Nick and Crowther, Tanya and Welch, Elizabeth and Collins, Grace (2014) Developing a care home quality indicator based on social care-related quality of life. In: National Care Forum Quality Assurance Meeting, March 2014, London. (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)

Towers, Ann-Marie and Smith, Nick (2014) How the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) can help us understand quality of life and quality of care of people living with dementia in care homes. In: How do we assess the quality of mental health social care? Perspectives from different stakeholders, 8th October 2014, Kings College, London. (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)

Towers, Ann-Marie and Smith, Nick and Rider, Sinead and Welch, Elizabeth (2013) “Most people lack capacity here”. The ethical and methodological challenges of conducting research in care homes for older adults. In: 42nd British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference: 'Global Ageing: Implications for Individuals and Society', September 2013, University of Oxford. (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)

Smith, Nick and Rider, Sinead and Towers, Ann-Marie and Welch, Elizabeth (2013) Researcher experience in older adult care and nursing homes. In: 42nd British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference: 'Global Ageing: Implications for Individuals and Society',, 11th - 13th September 2013, University of Oxford. (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)

Smith, Nick and Towers, Ann-Marie (2012) Measuring outcomes in care homes using ASCOT. In: British Society of Gerontology Conference, 11-13 July 2012, Keele University. (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)

Netten, Ann and Towers, Ann-Marie and Smith, Nick and Beadle-Brown, Julie and Welch, Elizabeth (2012) Measuring outcomes and improving quality in English care homes. In: Nordic Congress of Gerontology, 11th-13th June 2012, Copenhagen. (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)

Smith, Nick and Netten, Ann (2011) The Use of ASCOT measures. In: London Strategic Performance Managers Network: Outcomes group workshop, 2011, London. (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)

Smith, Nick and Holder, Jacquetta and Netten, Ann and Fox, Diane (2010) Carers' Experience of Social Services and Quality of Life: The 2008 Kent Carers Survey. In: 5th International Carers Conference: New Frontiers in Caring 2010 and beyond, July 2010, Leeds. (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)

Fox, Diane and Holder, Jacquetta and Smith, Nick (2010) Developing a survey of carers’ experience of services and quality of life. In: 5th International Carers Conference: New Frontiers in Caring 2010 and beyond, July 2010, Leeds. (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)

Smith, Nick and Fox, Diane and Holder, Jacquetta (2009) Developing and using the 2009/10 Carers’ Survey. In: Social Service Research Group: User experience surveys today and tomorrow, 16th November 2009, Birmingham. (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)

Smith, Nick and Netten, Ann (2009) The Quality and Outcomes of Community Equipment Services. In: British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference; Culture, Diverstiy & Ageing, September 2009, University of the West of England, Bristol. (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)

Smith, Nick and Netten, Ann (2008) Measuring the Quality and Outcomes of Community Equipment Services. In: Recent Advances in Assistive Technology and Engineering, December 2008, Coventry University. (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)

Smith, Nick and Holder, Jacquetta and Netten, Ann (2008) Measuring outcomes for carers. In: British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference, September 2008, University of the West of England, Bristol. (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)

Smith, Nick (2008) Improving Survey Questions:  The use of cognitive testing. In: Kent Adult Social Services Research Conference, March 2008, Maidstone. (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)

Smith, Nick (2007) Cognitive Testing: Why thinking it through help. In: Department of Health Adult Social Care Researcher Workshop, November 2007, London. (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)

Smith, Nick and Netten, Ann (2007) Developing Quality and Outcomes Measures for Community Equipment Services. In: British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference, September 2007, The University of Sheffield. (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)

Clarke, John and Smith, Nick and Vidler, Elizabeth (2004) Consumerism and the reform of public services: inequalities and instabilities. In: Social Policy Association Annual Conference, 13th-15th July 2004, The University of Nottingham. (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)

Westmarland, Louise and Smith, Nick (2004) From scumbags to consumers: customer service and the commodification of policing. In: British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, July 2004, The University of Portsmouth. (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)

Smith, Nick and Vidler, Elizabeth and Newman, Janet and Westmarland, Louise and Clarke, John (2003) Consumerism and Social Policy: Creating citizen-consumers. In: Social Policy Association Conference, July 2003, Middlesborough. (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)

Book

Clarke, John and Newman, Janet and Smith, Nick and Vidler, Elizabeth and Westmarland, Louise (2007) Creating Citizen-Consumers: Changing publics and changing public services. Sage, London, 192 pp. ISBN 978-1-4129-2134-3. E-ISBN 978-1-84787-864-9. (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)

Research report (external and confidential)

Towers, Ann-Marie and Smith, Nick and Razik, Kamilla (2016) Evaluating the use of ASCOT in aged-care services: summary of main findings. A baseline report for the Whiddon Group. Personal Social Research Services (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)

Research report (external)

Smith, Nick (2014) Developing a semi-structured ASCOT interview tool. Quality and Outcomes of Person-Centred Care Policy Research Unit (Submitted) (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)

Beadle-Brown, Julie and Ryan, Sara and Windle, Karen and Holder, Jacquetta and Turnpenny, Agnes and Smith, Nick and Richardson, Lisa and Whelton, Beckie (2012) Engagement of People with Long-Term Conditions in Health and Social Care Research: Barriers and Facilitators to Capturing the Views of Seldom Heard Population. Quality and Outcomes of Person-Centred Care Policy Research Unit, 58 pp. (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)

Smith, Nick and Malley, Juliette (2012) Understanding and addressing underrepresentation in a postal survey of social care users. Full report. Quality and Outcomes of Person-Centred Care Policy Research Unit, 92 pp. (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)

Holder, Jacquetta and Fox, Diane and Smith, Nick and Netten, Ann (2011) Development of the First National Survey of Carers' Experiences of Adult Social Care in England. Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent (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)

Smith, Nick (2011) The Home Care User Experience Survey 2009: Kent Booster Sample. Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent (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)

Smith, Nick and Netten, Ann (2011) Personal Social Services Extension Survey of Adults Receiving Community Equipment and Minor Adaptations 2009-10. Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent (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)

Smith, Nick (2010) The experience of carers in Kent: a comparison of the 2008 Kent Carers’ Survey and the 2009/10 Carers’ Experience Survey. Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent (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)

Smith, Nick and Netten, Ann and Holder, Jacquetta and Fox, Diane (2009) Carers’ Experiences and Outcomes: The 2008 Kent Carers Survey. Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent (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)

Smith, Nick and Netten, Ann (2009) Users' Experience of Equipment Services. Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent (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)

Smith, Nick and Netten, Ann (2008) Developing Measures of Quality and Outcome with Community Equipment Services. Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent (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)

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