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Delayed discharge and lack of housing for inpatients

01 April 2011

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Housing is a fundamental need and is particularly important for people who have been discharged from hospital after admission for acute mental health problems. In...

Living environments and older people

01 November 2000

Nursing Older People

CPD

The influence of care environments on patients has long been a fundamental concern for nurses. Considerations of how environments might be defined, particularly how...

Successful transfers to out-of-area placements

26 January 2016

Learning Disability Practice

Art & Science

The Winterbourne View inquiry highlighted issues about people with learning disabilities who are placed in hospitals. Although most people with learning disabilities...

A joined-up approach to improving older people’s health and wellbeing

03 May 2016

Nursing Management

Feature

This article describes how a joined-up approach to housing, health and wellbeing is making a difference to the lives of older people and particularly the lives of...

From hotel to home

06 September 2005

Nursing Standard

Feature

In the heart of Manhattan, the Common Ground organisation helps the city’s low paid and homeless to find health care and work. Many of these people have complex...

On the right track

21 March 2006

Nursing Standard

Feature

With experience in A&E and HIVawareness as well as charity work overseas, Derek Reale was looking for a change. Working for the British Transport Police, he is able...

Identifying standards to ensure seamless discharge to primary care for homeless people

27 March 2015

Primary Health Care

Transition

Practitioners need to work collaboratively to enable people experiencing homelessness to achieve a good standard of care whenever they have a ‘transition of care’...

Views on ageing in place from relocated low‑income housing residents in the US

29 September 2017

Nursing Older People

Evidence & practice

Background Ageing in place (AIP) is the ability to live in one’s home and community independently, despite age, ability level or income. Aim To elicit knowledge and...

Looking from the outside in

03 August 2010

Nursing Standard

Feature

A housing and care provider for older people has taken the unusual step of employing a nurse to manage end of life care.