Recognising and preventing delirium

This quick guide from NICE and SCIE will help care home managers and their staff to recognise the symptoms of delirium and to understand what they can do to prevent it.
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This quick guide from NICE and SCIE will help care home managers and their staff to recognise the symptoms of delirium and to understand what they can do to prevent it.
Part of Safeguarding adults in practice
This guidance is for frontline practitioners and managers who work with adults who have care and support needs and who may be at risk of abuse or neglect.
This resource introduces the concepts of health inequalities and provide practical examples of the ways in which all of social work practice contributes to tackling health inequalities.
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.
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.
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.
This guide aims to identify the issues that most commonly lead to safeguarding referrals from care homes.
This guidance aims to support NHS and local authority commissioners of care homes to ensure that safeguarding is central to the commissioning process and a primary concern for residential and nursing care home providers.
Part of Prevention and wellbeing
This research briefing is about preventive care and support for adults. Prevention is defined to include services that: promote independence; prevent or delay the deterioration of wellbeing resulting from ageing, illness or disability; delay the need for more costly and intensive services.
Evidence about what hinders people with mental health problems from working in social care, and what helps them to gain and/or retain employment.
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