Improving care for older people

Older people

Here we bring together resources from our workshop series on improving care for older people. Drawing on our report, Making our health and care systems fit for an ageing population, these workshops considered different aspects of providing high-quality care for a growing number of older people with frailty.

Integrated services to provide person-centred care

Presentations

Click on the links below to download presentations from our workshop series.

1. Age well and stay well

PDF icon Joy Youart: Living well - Pioneer for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

2. Live well with one or more long-term conditions

PDF

3. Support for complex co-morbities/ frailty

John Young: NHS England and frailty in primary care.pdf

4. Accessible, effective support in crisis

PDF icon Ruth Williams: iCares integrated care services for Sandwell community

5. High-quality, person-centred acute care

PDF icon Margaret Harries: Compassion in practice

6. Good discharge planning and post-discharge support

PDF icon Tom Downes: Patient flow and discharge to assess

PDF icon Paul Harriman: Patient flow and discharge to assess

PDF icon Neil Tester: Healthwatch safely home special inquiry findings

PDF icon Jane Youde: Frail elderly assessment team - how we got to where we are now

7. Effective rehabilitation and re-ablement

PDF icon Bie Grobet: Discharge to assess Warwickshire model

PDF icon Deborah Harrold: Agewell Community Interest Company

PDF icon Claire Holditch: National audit of intermediate care key findings 2015

8. Person-centred, dignified, long-term care

PDF icon Adam Gordon: Specialist health care for care homes

PDF icon Elizabeth Kendrick: Care home commissioning

PDF icon Sally Roberts: A new integrated model for care homes from Walsall CCG Healthcare NHS Trust

PDF icon Annie Stevenson: My Home Life - promoting quality of life in care homes

9. Support, control and choice at end of life

PDF icon Barbara Pointon: What frail older patients with dementia and their carers want from primary care services

Related content

Delivering integrated care for older people with frailty

Completed project

Older people’s experiences of district nursing services

This project was done to improve our understanding of quality in district nursing services by learning from the experiences of older people receiving care, their informal carers and district nursing staff.

Care homes, housing, health and social care learning network

A learning network to build new relationships and ensure quality of life for those who need care.

Related publications

Making our health and care systems fit for an ageing population

Our fragmented health and care system is not meeting the needs of older people. This report sets out a framework and tools to help local service leaders improve the care they provide for older people across nine key components.

Providing integrated care for older people with complex needs: Lessons from seven international case studies

This report synthesises evidence from seven integrated care case studies, and identifies lessons for policy-makers and service providers to help with the challenges ahead.

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