{"title":"Using Online Consultations to Facilitate Health and Social Care Delivery During COVID-19: An Interview Study of Care Home Staff","authors":"K. Warmoth, C. Bennett, J. Lynch, C. Goodman","doi":"10.31389/jltc.184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.184","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT","PeriodicalId":73807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of long-term care","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80172896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lucy Johnston, Cari Malcolm, Lekaashree Rambabu, Jo Hockley, Susan D. Shenkin
The wellbeing of care home staff and the need to support them at work was highlighted with devastating clarity by the COVID pandemic. This small study explores what online and at work wellbeing resources were available to frontline care home workers during the first wave of the pandemic. A mixed methods study was undertaken May and July 2020. A multi-disciplinary team undertook a rapid review of online wellbeing information and resources relevant specifically to the care home sector and its non-nurse staff. Qualitative data comprised of digital recordings of semi-structured interviews with six care home managers of five care homes, and an online survey sent to 55 Scottish care homes with a response rate of 18%. Five overarching lessons were identified from the data. The first two (‘managing information overload’ and ‘medium not appropriate for the message’) relate to the awareness and use of the online wellbeing resources by frontline care workers. Three others (‘visible and supportive leadership’, ‘building team camaraderie’ and ‘maintaining a focus on wellbeing beyond a crisis response’) highlight the in-house, practice-based issues of supporting the wellbeing of staff. Although small, the findings from this study are of relevance and use by those in the UK and beyond working develop and sustain more effective ways to support and retain of this vital workforce.
{"title":"Supporting the Wellbeing of Care Home Staff: Lessons from the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Lucy Johnston, Cari Malcolm, Lekaashree Rambabu, Jo Hockley, Susan D. Shenkin","doi":"10.31389/jltc.205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.205","url":null,"abstract":"The wellbeing of care home staff and the need to support them at work was highlighted with devastating clarity by the COVID pandemic. This small study explores what online and at work wellbeing resources were available to frontline care home workers during the first wave of the pandemic. A mixed methods study was undertaken May and July 2020. A multi-disciplinary team undertook a rapid review of online wellbeing information and resources relevant specifically to the care home sector and its non-nurse staff. Qualitative data comprised of digital recordings of semi-structured interviews with six care home managers of five care homes, and an online survey sent to 55 Scottish care homes with a response rate of 18%. Five overarching lessons were identified from the data. The first two (‘managing information overload’ and ‘medium not appropriate for the message’) relate to the awareness and use of the online wellbeing resources by frontline care workers. Three others (‘visible and supportive leadership’, ‘building team camaraderie’ and ‘maintaining a focus on wellbeing beyond a crisis response’) highlight the in-house, practice-based issues of supporting the wellbeing of staff. Although small, the findings from this study are of relevance and use by those in the UK and beyond working develop and sustain more effective ways to support and retain of this vital workforce.","PeriodicalId":73807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of long-term care","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136206868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Aspinal, A. Willcox, Damian Murphy, Tim Sanders, Jenni Brooks
{"title":"Living Alone with Dementia in England – Managing without Informal Support to Contact and Navigate Services: A Mixed-Methods Protocol","authors":"F. Aspinal, A. Willcox, Damian Murphy, Tim Sanders, Jenni Brooks","doi":"10.31389/jltc.194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.194","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of long-term care","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72986149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. S. Gould, Thea Franke, Sabina Staempfli, Lillian Hung, Farinaz Havaei
{"title":"Implementation of the Single Site Order in Long-Term Care: What We Can Learn from Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research","authors":"J. S. Gould, Thea Franke, Sabina Staempfli, Lillian Hung, Farinaz Havaei","doi":"10.31389/jltc.145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of long-term care","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78858957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Perceptions and Approaches of Registered Managers Regarding Clinical Safety in Care Homes in the UK","authors":"C. Kirkpatrick, B. Nyatanga","doi":"10.31389/jltc.122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of long-term care","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84211881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annette Boaz, Bev Fitzsimons, Becki Meakin, Stuart Muirhead, Claire Williams, Melanie Weatherley, Martin Knapp, Lisa Smith, Joe Langley, Hannah Kendrick, Juliette Malley, Annette Bauer
There are many pressing questions about how to deliver adult social care services. Where research evidence exists to address these questions, there is often limited use by social care commissioners, providers and the workforce. Sometimes this is attributed to the lack of perceived relevance and accessibility of the research itself, at other times it is considered to be a matter of individual and organizational capacity. As things stand, there is a gap between social care research and practice. Improving interaction between different stakeholders in the research process is a contemporary mechanism for promoting the production of research that is useful, usable and used. This paper describes one collaborative approach called Research Practice Partnerships (RPPs). These partnerships share the goal of benefit for all partners and are supported by a growing international evidence base. This paper summarizes some of the key literature from different countries and contexts where the approach has been tried. It highlights the main features of RPPs, introduces a project setting up three new partnerships in the care home sector in England and highlights aspects of the theory of change that will guide the evaluation of the partnerships. In doing so, the paper introduces a promising collaborative approach to a social care audience and considers whether RPPs have the potential to achieve meaningful and impactful research in social care contexts.
{"title":"Do Research–Practice Partnerships Offer a Promising Approach to Producing Research that Improves Social Care Practice and Outcomes?","authors":"Annette Boaz, Bev Fitzsimons, Becki Meakin, Stuart Muirhead, Claire Williams, Melanie Weatherley, Martin Knapp, Lisa Smith, Joe Langley, Hannah Kendrick, Juliette Malley, Annette Bauer","doi":"10.31389/jltc.190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.190","url":null,"abstract":"There are many pressing questions about how to deliver adult social care services. Where research evidence exists to address these questions, there is often limited use by social care commissioners, providers and the workforce. Sometimes this is attributed to the lack of perceived relevance and accessibility of the research itself, at other times it is considered to be a matter of individual and organizational capacity. As things stand, there is a gap between social care research and practice. Improving interaction between different stakeholders in the research process is a contemporary mechanism for promoting the production of research that is useful, usable and used. This paper describes one collaborative approach called Research Practice Partnerships (RPPs). These partnerships share the goal of benefit for all partners and are supported by a growing international evidence base. This paper summarizes some of the key literature from different countries and contexts where the approach has been tried. It highlights the main features of RPPs, introduces a project setting up three new partnerships in the care home sector in England and highlights aspects of the theory of change that will guide the evaluation of the partnerships. In doing so, the paper introduces a promising collaborative approach to a social care audience and considers whether RPPs have the potential to achieve meaningful and impactful research in social care contexts.","PeriodicalId":73807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of long-term care","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136305542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dana M. Prince, Kieran J. Fogarty, Jonathan B VanGeest, S. Eberth
ABSTRACT
{"title":"Using an Accessible Room Multisensory Stimulation Environment to Reduce Dementia Associated Behaviors","authors":"Dana M. Prince, Kieran J. Fogarty, Jonathan B VanGeest, S. Eberth","doi":"10.31389/jltc.151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.151","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT","PeriodicalId":73807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of long-term care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46276707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Things Won’t Improve if they’re Just Left to Fester’: A Qualitative Study Exploring How UK Care home Staff Perceive and Experience Engagement in Health Research","authors":"M. Stephens, Alec Knight","doi":"10.31389/jltc.137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.137","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of long-term care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45099487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Exploration of Care Home Staff’s Perceptions Regarding Physical Activity Among Older Adults: A Qualitative Systematic Review","authors":"F. Hallam, Sarah Lewis","doi":"10.31389/jltc.132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of long-term care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45118250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}