Graphic promoting 'Prevention in social care' highlighting its importance to health, wellbeing, and prevention with images of individuals in conversation and social care symbols. Text includes the hashtag #IntegratedWorking.

💙 Prevention helps people stay well, avoid unnecessary hospital visits, and maintain their independence.

Our guide explains the vital role social care plays in prevention, public health, and wellbeing and why it matters to us all.

📘 Read the guide: https://bit.ly/48Vm6xW

Maintaining independence at home after a fall: a process evaluation of the MAINTAIN multicomponent intervention for people living with dementia AbstractBackground. People with dementia who have a fall can experience both physical and psychological effects, often leading to diminished independence.

New paper out in @age-and-ageing.bsky.social: Maintaining independence at home after a fall: a process evaluation of the MAINTAIN multicomponent intervention for people living with dementia. Read it here: academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...

Mapping Nursing Roles in Long‐Term Care: A Systematic Review With Network Analysis Aim To synthesise evidence on nurses' roles in long-term care settings and map their interactions. Design Systematic review with network analysis. Methods Thematic synthesis was used to identify.....

Mapping Nursing Roles in Long-Term Care: A Systematic Review With Network Analysis
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#LongTermCare #Nursing #Workforce #RoleDelineation #Skills

Creating a home away from home: a resident-centred systematic review and meta-synthesis of ideal nursing home qualities from the perspectives of cognitively intact residents AbstractBackground. A home-like environment is crucial for the well-being of nursing home residents, promoting autonomy, comfort and social connection. Thi

A resident-centred systematic review and meta-synthesis of ideal nursing home qualities
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✅ autonomy
✅ meaningful social connections
✅ personalised environments @iriacunha.bsky.social

#LongTermCare #CareHomes #Quality

New paper out: “Reasons for long‑term care need: analyzing combinations of health limitations in Germany”
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✅Understanding combinations and patterns of physical, mental & day-to-day #LongTermCare needs helps policymakers & providers design tailored LTC strategies

Publicly funded home-based care does more than support daily life—it protects mental health.

A new Health Economics Special Issue study finds it reduces depression, boosts quality of life, and lowers loneliness among older Europeans.

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#HealthEconomics #LongTermCare

Contributed a comment and talked through this piece a while back. Great to see it out. Important findings for England mirroring what we see in other countries and raising questions on vulnerability.

I really like writing and helping contribute to work like this.
#scicomm #scisky #heatwaves

The use of narrative approaches to improve quality of care in the long-term care setting: a scoping review.

tl;dr - narrative methods help improve long-term care #quality but are rarely structurally embedded.

#QuImp #PPI #CareHomes #DomiciliaryCare #LongTermCare

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Piloting a minimum data set (MDS) in english care homes: a qualitative study of professional perspectives on implementation and data use - BMC Geriatrics Background Digitalisation within English care homes offers potential to make more effective use of substantial data collected by staff during care planning and recording. A pilot minimum data set was ...

Paper out: Piloting a minimum data set (MDS) in english care homes: a qualitative study of professional perspectives on implementation and data use

Find it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@jennikburton.bsky.social @a-mtowers.bsky.social @hdemcop.bsky.social

A logic model describing how pharmacy interventions couldn't bring about changes to the outcomes of housebound people.

Our new paper:

The role of community pharmacists in medicines optimisation for housebound people: A scoping review

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#pharmacy #socialcare

Graphical model showing the application of protection motivation theory in health settings.

Our new paper:

Using protection motivation theory to support patient adherence in healthcare settings: A scoping review.

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#healthpsych #adherence #theory