Adult oral health in care homes toolkit

7 December 2024

Public Health England and stakeholders have produced the toolkit to support care homes and commissioners to implement the NICE guideline (NG48): Oral health for adults in care homes. The toolkit also contains useful links for care home staff, residents, their families and friends to support good oral health and reduce oral health inequalities.

Categories:

• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal assistants,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Supported living

Information needed to find the missing (The Herbert Protocol)

21 July 2024

The Herbert Protocol encourages carers or family members of adults living with dementia to collate information on those who are vulnerable onto a form, know as the Herbert Protocol form, that can be given to the police if they go missing.

Categories:

• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal assistants,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Supported living

Preventing Exploitation Toolkit

21 July 2024

The Safer Devon Partnership has developed an online preventing exploitation toolkit to tackle the threat of exploitation. This toolkit will help frontline colleagues learn about, identify and report exploitation happening in Devon and the surrounding area. The toolkit’s audience consists of anyone who, through their paid or voluntary work, may encounter individuals who are vulnerable Continue reading…

Categories:

• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal assistants,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Supported living

Safeguarding Adult Concern Referral Form

30 April 2024

Devon County Council and the Torbay and Devon Safeguarding Adults Partnership (TDSAP) have a new Safeguarding Adult Concern Referral Form. Referrers are encouraged to use the form to raise a safeguarding adult concern with the local authority. The form is available on the TDSAP website. The form arises from national developments and local stakeholder engagement Continue reading…

Categories:

• Community equipment, minor adaptations and TECS,
• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal assistants,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Supported living

Advanced Care Planning Template

17 April 2024

Planning Ahead for End of Life If you would like to support individuals you are caring for who may have a terminal illness or are approaching the end of their life make arrangements for their future care. This advanced care planning booklet can help with this as it gives the individual the opportunity to think and Continue reading…

Categories:

• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal assistants,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Supported living

Infection, Prevention and Control (IPC) Compliance Assessment Tool

21 March 2024

This compliance assessment is a simple tool which has been developed using the most recent information from the CQC and others. It will help you know how well you are doing, identify areas in which you need to improve and bring the guidance together into one place.

Categories:

• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal assistants,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Supported living

Tags: Infection, prevention and control

A guide to understanding dementia

28 February 2024

A guide to understanding Dementia

Categories:

• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal assistants,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Supported living

National Minimum Wage Law: Enforcement

21 February 2024

Policy on HM Revenue & Customs enforcement, prosecutions and naming employers who break National Minimum Wage law.

Categories:

• Extra care housing,
• Group-based care and day services,
• Personal care at home,
• Personalised support and enabling,
• Replacement care services,
• Residential and nursing care homes,
• Supported living

Useful resource on how to reduce the risk of falls

10 January 2024

Information for care providers: React To Falls : Training resources for care home staff The Stop Fall App (includes free downloadable risk factors, assessments, exercises and interventions) Falls Response Governance Framework for NHS Ambulance Trusts – aace.org.uk (outlines responsibility of a care provider when a fall occurs in a residential setting). Information for the public, Continue reading…

Categories:

• Extra care housing,
• Personal care at home,
• Residential and nursing care homes

COVID Oximetry@home service

7 December 2020

CO@h is a service for adults likely to experience worsening or life-threatening hypoxia (low oxygen levels in blood) and it is available for people in care homes and their own homes. This information contains a quick reference guide and monitoring log sheet.

Categories:

• Residential and nursing care homes

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