City Research Online

"We’ll meet again - don’t know where, don’t know when" Supporting Community Visiting in Essex Care Homes

Tanner, C. & Morgan Brett, B. ORCID: 0000-0002-7212-6898 (2014). "We’ll meet again - don’t know where, don’t know when" Supporting Community Visiting in Essex Care Homes. Colchester, Essex: University of Essex.

Abstract

Essex County Council is working to support community engagement in care homes. Alongside the developments described in the companion paper “It’s a Lovely Thing”: Commissioning Relationship-Centred Care in Essex (Granville, G., 2013) the Council has fostered the development of a Community Visitor (CV) pilot, operated by the My Home Life Community Association (MHLECA)

This report describes the results of a year-long evaluation of the Community Visitor pilot, conducted by researchers at the University of Essex. It was funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), and forms part of a wider programme of work by JRF in the field of risk and relationship in the care sector.

The report describes how the CV pilot was established and its impact on the lives of older people, the culture of the care home, and on the volunteers themselves. It goes on to discuss wider learning from the pilot and makes a number of recommendations to inform future planning

Publication Type: Report
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Departments: School of Health & Medical Sciences
School of Health & Medical Sciences > Department of Nursing & Midwifery
SWORD Depositor:
[thumbnail of independent-evaluation-MHLECA-community-visitor-pilot.pdf] Text - Published Version
This document is not freely accessible due to copyright restrictions.

Export

Add to AnyAdd to TwitterAdd to FacebookAdd to LinkedinAdd to PinterestAdd to Email

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

View more statistics

Actions (login required)

Admin Login Admin Login