Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Creador:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Poxton, Richard
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: The first briefing gave an indication of some of the major issues involved in joint commissioning services for older people. It also gave an introduction to the work taking place at the five King's Fund development sites which are: Easington; Hillingdon; Oxfordshire; Westminster; and Wiltshire. This second briefing concentrates on ...

Creador:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: This report discusses progress and problems arising in the joint commissioning of community care services during 1993. Particular attention is given to the commissioning of services for older people, which in terms of expenditure, size of population and potential for service change represent a major challenge in health and social ...

Creador:: Gunaratnam, Yasmin, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Health Education Authority
Publication date:: 1991

Creador:: Eribo, Lynda, West Indian Women's Association, and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: This document is intended to serve as a source of information aimed at African-Caribbean carers of elderly people and those who support them. It offers information around what services area available to those carers and whom to approach for help. It acknowledges the important roles played by African-Caribbean community organisations ...

Creador:: Cornwell, Jocelyn and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: This report suggests ways in which managers and professionals can make community care more responsive to elderly people. The first part of the report examines ageism and its effects on health care. It describes how elderly people from black and ethnic minority groups are effected by racism. Part Two is ...

Creador:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Brown, Pearl
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: Early in 1987 five health visitor managers and five district nurse managers came together from across London to explore ways of working together in the 'spirit of Cumberlege'. The focus was caring for elderly people in the community. A record was kept of the process of the workshop with a ...

Creador:: City & Hackney Health Authority and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: This document defines the standard of care for facilities for elderly patients, and includes a checklist of standards together with guidelines for rating the criteria of service.

Creador:: Skeet, Muriel, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Continuing Care Project
Publication date:: 1985
Abstract:: The Continuing Care Project (CCP) is concerned with improving the quality of the arrangements made for support and care in the community when elderly people are discharged from hospital. This current study, which describes practices in use in 1982, shows that whilst significant progress has been made in tackling the ...

Creador:: Salvage, Ann V. and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: This paper aims to present two main types of information. Firstly, it aims to identify the various factors - demographic, economic and ideological - which have come together to create an unprecedented crisis for those involved in the provision of health and social services to the elderly population. Secondly, it ...

Creador:: Doggett, Marie-Anne, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Parish, Peter
Publication date:: 1983
Abstract:: The appropriate and safe use of drugs by the elderly requires special knowledge and skills if the benefits of treatment are to outweigh the risks. This review of published reports covers the use and misuse of drugs by the elderly, drug therapy in elderly patients and prescribing for the elderly. ...

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