Browsing by Subject "Long-term care"
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A mixed-methods study exploring the characteristics and needs of long-stay patients in high and medium secure settings in England: implications for service organisation
(2017)Forensic psychiatric services provide care for those with mental disorders and offending behaviour. Concerns have been expressed that patients may stay for too long in too high levels of security. The economic burden of ... -
Care homes for older people
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Carers of long-stay patients' perspectives of secure forensic care: An exploratory qualitative study
(2019)Background: For patients with a mental disorder facing lengthy stays in secure forensic care, the role and experiences of their carers has only recently started to be explored in research.Aims: To explore the experiences ... -
Characteristics and needs of long-stay forensic psychiatric inpatients: a rapid review of the literature
(2017)This rapid review summarises currently available information on the definition, prevalence, characteristics and needs of long-stay patients within forensic psychiatric settings. Sixty nine documents from 14 countries were ... -
Chronic enterocutaneous fistula: management in the community setting
(2020)Despite being aggravating and potentially embarrassing, enterocutaneous fistulas can be successfully managed, with patients being able to resume many of their normal daily activities while the fistula continues to drain. ... -
Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: A realist review
(2016)BACKGROUND: Care home residents in England have variable access to health care services. There is currently no coherent policy or consensus about the best arrangements to meet these needs. The purpose of this review was ... -
Ethical issues of long-term forensic psychiatric care
(2016)Forensic psychiatry is a subspecialty of clinical psychiatry that operates at the interface between law and psychiatry. It is concerned with patients who have a mental disorder as well as having committed an offence, often ... -
Growth in independent hospitals. An opportunity for training beyond the NHS
(2008)The UK independent psychiatric hospitals sector has grown significantly in recent years. The arrival of community care and the closure by the National Health Service (NHS) of the county asylums led to overload of local NHS ... -
The individual experience of aging patients and the current service provision in the context of Italian forensic psychiatry: A case study
(2017)Introduction: After the recent development of residential units for the execution of security measures managed by the National Health Service and the closing down of forensic psychiatric hospitals, no study has been conducted ... -
Intensive case management for severe mental illness
(2017)Intensive Case Management (ICM) is a community-based package of care aiming to provide long-term care for severely mentally ill people who do not require immediate admission. ICM evolved from 2 original community models ... -
Long-term forensic mental health services: An exploratory comparison of 18 European countries
(2016)The objective of this study was to explore current provisions within forensic mental health inpatient services for people who require longer-term care within Europe. We used a structured questionnaire and follow-up ... -
Multi-agency care for people with alcohol-related long-term conditions
(2017)In Nottinghamshire, a dedicated team cares for people with alcohol-related chronic ill health. This initiative won the award for Managing Long-term Conditions in the 2016 Nursing Times Awards -
Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: A realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings
(2017)Background: Care homes are the institutional providers of long-term care for older people. The OPTIMAL study argued that it is probable that there are key activities within different models of health-care provision that ...
