Making sure personal budgets work for older people: briefing

This review looks at key challenges to successful implementation of personal budgets for older people and has started to identify positive practice and solutions.

Co-production and participation: older people with high support needs

Part of Co-production

This is a summary of research literature on the participation and co-production of older people with high support needs. Benefits and barriers are identified and examples of good practice are listed. The conclusion offers recommendations for improving practice.

Co-production and participation: older people with high support needs

Part of Co-production

This briefing for commissioners of housing, social and health care services and service users summarises a literature review and good practice survey on the participation and co-production of older people with high support needs.

Avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions: the headlines

Part of Prevention and wellbeing

This film looks at the realities behind the headlines about older people and their use of hospital beds, and considers what steps could be taken to help avoid unnecessary admissions.

Avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions among older people: residential care

Part of Prevention and wellbeing

This film explores the steps that care homes can take to reduce the need for hospital admissions amongst residents despite their complex health care needs and high levels of dependency.

Avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions: the Wandsworth community ward

Part of Prevention and wellbeing

This film presents the Wandsworth Community Ward initiative, and explores how it helps keep older people out of hospital through contributions from team members, strategic managers and service users and carers.

Quality in social care: what is excellence

In this video, people who use services and social care academics consider extracts from SCIE’s Social Care TV films to help understand quality and excellence in social care. The panel considers the quality of social care in different settings and with different people, to see how excellence can be achieved.

Quality in social care: achieving excellence in care homes for older people

In this video, people who use services and social care academics consider the quality of care and support offered in care homes. The panel discusses how standards of care across the sector can be raised so that all older people can experience the quality of care demonstrated in this care home.

Quality in social care: achieving excellence in home care

In this video, we see examples of excellence in support offered to older people, people with learning disabilities and people with physical disabilities in their own homes. Focus is on the relationship between staff and the people they support because getting that right is fundamental to excellent care.

Preventing loneliness and social isolation among older people

This briefing for health and care staff explains the importance of tackling social isolation and loneliness among older people. It highlights the adverse effects of isolation and describes services helping to reduce the problem.