Sally LawtonLiz TowseyDavid Carroll
Residential care for the elderly: A billion‐pound experiment in policy‐making By a bureaucratic accident, the 'board and lodging' allowance of the supplementary benefits system has enabled central government to finance private residential and nursing home care for the elderly. The result is an uni...
A care home in Bristol has been fined for not doing enough to keep people safe from vulnerable patients who posed adanger to themselves and others.The case follows the death of Melissa Mathieson at Alexandra House on 12 October 2014. Jason Conroy murdered the 18-year-old and was jailed for...
Distribution of the Mean Number of Days Using In-Home Care Services per Week Before Death View LargeDownload This histogram includes recipients who used in-home care services more than once a week at least from the first day of the month before the month of death to the date of death. ...
A table that specifies the number of months in which 25%, 50%, and 75% of patients with any specific predictor index value are likely to reach the end point is then consulted.Survival curves for time to need for care equivalent to nursing home placement and for time to death derived ...
TOKYO, March 16 (Xinhua) -- A death sentence was handed down to a Japanese man on Monday who carried out a frenzied knife attack which killed 19 people and injured 26 others at a care home for people with mental disabilities near Tokyo. ...
Navigating the path to care and death at home—it is not always smooth: a qualitative examination of the experiences of bereaved family caregivers in palliative careKeyword Highlighting Highlight selected keywords in the article text.doi:10.1097/OR9.0000000000000003Lobb, Elizabeth A....
A company and care home owner have admitted criminal liability after a care home resident died in a lift accident. Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard that 85-year-old Kenneth Bardsley and his carer dropped four metres in a lift after its damaged door had become jammed during descent...
Once in home care they no longer were less likely to die at home. Although age related needs require consideration, improved access to home care is therefore likely to increase home deaths for older people. Women were less likely to die at home than men, yet younger women may be more ...
Human Genome Project. And yet, there is a silent “cancer” eating away at the fabric of our health care system. Despite the successes of American Medicine, we rank only 37th in the world, according to the World Health Organization, in terms of bringing these successes to all of our ...