SCIE research briefing 40: end of life care for people with dementia living in care homes

SCIE Research briefing 40:End of life care for people with dementia living in care homes.

Living in a care home: a positive outcome for a person with dementia

Part of Dementia

Use this video to convince people of the value of high quality care homes for people with dementia. It can be used for training to help improve practices in any setting. It highlights the key areas of improving quality of life for someone with dementia and it shows what good care looks like, which can be comforting.

Budgets and beyond: interim report

A review by SCIE and NEF of current policy and practice of personalisation and an analysis of the potential of co-production to improve outcomes for individuals;

SCIE research briefing 36: reablement: a cost-effective route to better outcomes

Part of Reablement

This briefing, one in a series on preventive care and support for adults, focuses on reablement.

SCIE research briefing 39: preventing loneliness and social isolation: interventions and outcomes

A film that describes the different interventions that can help to prevent social isolation and promote well-being for older people.

Parental mental health and families: interventions

Part of e-Learning courses

Within the context of families who have a parent with mental health problems, this e-learning module explores how to identify the outcomes parents and children want for themselves and how these can be made central to planned supports and interventions. It shows how to use the 'think child, think parent, think family' approach and the Family Model to help to identify interventions that address the needs of the whole family and explores screening, active signposting and early intervention, and their importance as points of intervention during the care pathway. Individual sections cover: the outcomes families what; screening and active signposting; and early intervention and social inclusion.

Reablement: maintaining independence

This video is for health and care commissioners and staff and people at risk of falling. It shows preventive support that can be described as early intervention. People talk about how they are benefitting from the falls prevention service and exercise classes.

Telecare - providing more personalised care

This film is for health and social care commissioners, and people thinking about using telecare for their support needs and their supporters. It demonstrates a range of the available technology and shows how it has helped to maintain people’s independence, reducing their reliance on carers.

Prevention: Reablement

This film for health and social commissioners and people using reablement provides an introduction to home care reablement. Reablement is a relatively new service aimed at supporting people to regain independence that may have been reduced or lost through illness or disability.

Personalisation briefing: personalisation, productivity and efficiency

Part of Personalisation

This At a glance summary examines the potential for personalisation, particularly self-directed support and personal budgets, to result in cost-efficiencies and improved productivity as well as improved care and support.