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National Report Addresses Nursing Home Quality & Promotes Value of Social Work

Social Work Blog

On April 6, 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a report entitled The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality: Honoring Our Commitment to Residents , Families, and Staff. Posted April 22, 2022. Study sponsors included the Commonwealth Fund and the John A Hartford Foundation.

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More people receiving long-term care following years of decline

Community Care

The growth in numbers in 2022-23 came across all service settings – nursing homes, residential homes and community-based care – and among both people aged 65 and over and those aged 18-64. in cash terms (£1.9bn), more than the overall rate of growth in gross adult social care expenditure (7.9%).

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65,000 adults waiting at least six months for assessment as unmet needs mount, warns ADASS

Community Care

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ (ADASS) latest snapshot survey on the state of the sector also found that, while more care home care was being delivered than last year, an estimated two million commissioned hours went undelivered in January to March this year due to a lack of workforce capacity.

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Cost of care analyses show councils lack funding to pay providers fair price, warn directors

Community Care

Councils lack the money to move towards paying providers a fair price for care, directors have warned, in the light of government-mandated analyses of the costs of services, directors have said. per hour gap for home care but suggested there was no gap for nursing home fees.

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DoLS: older people routinely having rights breached because of failure to tackle ‘huge’ backlog, warns charity

Community Care

I struggle to see why you have to jump through all of these hoops for someone in a nursing home, when they’re happy there and don’t want to leave,” said another. ‘Shortage of trained professionals and funding’ The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services echoed several of the report’s findings. .”

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Councils underfunded adult care services by at least £2.9bn in 2021-22, provider analysis suggests

Community Care

The exercises used data supplied by providers concerning their costs, broken down into areas such as staffing, premises, services and supplies and appropriate levels of profit, as of 2021.

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CQC delivers initial verdict on council adults’ services under new assurance system

Community Care

There will be no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists. . ” For the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, president Beverley Tarka said: “Families up and down the country are facing constant struggles to get the support they need to care for loved ones.