As the demographic shift towards an ageing population accelerates [1,2], a transition to care home or supported living facilities may become the most viable option for older individuals living alone and requiring high-level supervision and care [3,4]. In Scotland, UK, care homes provide 24-h...
As the demographic shift towards an ageing population accelerates [1,2], a transition to care home or supported living facilities may become the most viable option for older individuals living alone and requiring high-level supervision and care [3,4]. In Scotland, UK, care homes provide 24-h...
The local authority should disregard your home from your financial assessment for the first 12-weeks after youpermanentlymove into residential care. This applies if theremainder of your capitalfalls below the upper threshold. This disregard means the local authority is liable for more of your care ...
The threshold for consensus (75%) was reached on the wording of draft attainment levels for the standard on assessment of adherence to pharmacological therapy, but levels were not retained after several respondents queried the selection of cut-points and the feasibility of implementing the levels....
The introduction of a national minimum threshold in terms of need for care to get support from social services is a key plank of the act. It should end the variation in entitlement to help from social services鈥攚hether in the community or to fund care in a home鈥攖hat has existed until...
They do not meet the threshold criteria for social services, and also do not get identified as possibly needing mental health rather than social care services. The issue of identifying when to bring in expertise from other agencies is also reported by Pentecost and Wood surveying 440 child care...
will be rather minimal once a ©2007-2024 CEECD | CHILD CARE – EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE 33 basic threshold of care that is "good enough" has been provided.6-7 Others have argued that when children spend a great deal of time in non-maternal care arrangements during the early...
also in non-cancer settings. Furthermore, new intervention formats, such as web-based formats, might lower the threshold for participation in this burdened population. Future research of our study group aims to examine the acceptance of different intervention formats and their effects on participation...
health orientation and guiding philosophy are acutely sensitive to any proposed changes in health policy underpinned by primary health care [2]. This is due to the fact that they work in the community and provide universal low threshold services guided by health promotion and disease prevention ...
models for older people (mean age of study participants > 65 years. Mean age as opposed to a strict age threshold was employed to ensure care models accepting younger patients with frailty identified using alternative measures, such as validated frailty scores or multi-morbidity were not ...