We systematically searched the literature to retrieve grey literature and published studies relating to standards and the quality of care for older persons in LTCFs. We used a combination of keywords (“older person”, “aged”, “elderly”, “aging”, “ageing”, geriatric, standard of care”...
The demand for care homes appears to be emerging as a key future trend in response to the burgeoning population of older adults, with the need for care pro
AGED CARE BENCHMARKINGPolicy and regulation of the aged care industry, and especially residential aged care services, is part of the expected accountability from services that accept financial subsidies to provide care for vulnerable people. While Australia's minimum management and care standards ...
Like the National Quality Standard for early childhood education and care settings (COAG, 2009b), this quality agenda has prompted a greater focus on the ability of services to provide environments that support the wellbeing and development of school age children and meet the quality standards. ...
Compared with younger people, older people have a higher risk of adverse health outcomes when presenting to emergency departments. As the population ages, older people will make up an increasing proportion of the emergency department population. Therefor
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Similarly, the United Kingdom Government has published universal, validated standards for young people friendly care (although this was developed for adolescents aged 11–19 years [30], it has subsequently influenced services development and redesign for young adult services) [31]. However, there is...
In 2010, 5,756 older adults (aged 60+ years) resided in Nima (Ghana Statistical Service, 2013). This settlement is mostly unplanned, and the majority of its houses do not meet modern building and spatial planning standards. The physical appearance of housing in Nima gives the impression of...
The quality standards of the Dutch Society of Intensive Care require monitoring of the satisfaction of patient’s relatives with respect to care. Currently, no suitable instrument is available in the Netherlands to measure this. This study describes the development and psychometric evaluation of the ...
"We hold ourselves to the highest standards when dealing with this group. Even though it's temporary care, we hope to help them grow with our love and ability," Yang said.■