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The care home sector is large, with over 400 000 residents in the UK and a similar number employed within the homes. It is therefore an area of considerable economic importance. Care home residents are often very old, and many have multiple physical and mental health needs, meaning that their care poses particular challenges. They are also a distinctly and profoundly marginalised group who are often invisible in the wider debates on quality of care including those about care homes. Mental Health and Care Homes is a coherent and evidence-based text exploring these issues. Bringing together both

Nursing homes --- Older people --- Long-term care --- Mental health services

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Quality of care in long-term care is a worldwide issue given the growing numbers of dependent older people. This book presents international research, 22 varied papers, exploring quality of care from several different angles. Important themes include: (1) workforce issues, such as staff training and support; job competencies, satisfaction, and intention to stay in work; staff burnout; effects of personal- and work-related factors on quality of care; (2) intervention studies: for depressive symptoms in nursing home residents; adjustment for new residents; social and psychological support; and loneliness and isolation; (3) methodology, including: developing and testing quality indicators; measuring residents' experience of quality; and assessing partnership between staff and families; and (4) older people's experiences, such as dry eyes and using ocular lubricants; associations between length of stay and end of life care; palliative care service use and comfort at end of of life; and causes of infection-related hospitalization. The book concludes with a systematic review of the current evidence base of care home research in Brazil.

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- depression --- nursing home --- psychosocial intervention --- applicability --- implementation --- life review therapy --- intervention mapping --- process evaluation --- maintenance --- long-term care --- organisational --- context older people --- care homes --- instrument development --- partnership practice --- family caregivers --- nursing homes --- older adults --- dementia --- adjustment --- residential care --- psychological wellbeing --- staff training --- quality of life --- long-term care facility --- care home --- length of stay --- palliative care --- end of life care --- epidemiology --- infection --- residential aged care --- hospitalization --- root cause analysis --- antimicrobial stewardship --- medication review --- Australia --- narrative --- quality assessment --- validity --- interviews --- relationship-centered care --- quality of care --- triad --- resident perspective --- feasibility --- dry eye syndromes --- drug side effects --- aged --- frailty --- long term care --- advanced dementia --- namaste care --- change --- Quality Improvement Collaborative --- Quality Improvement --- Implementation Science --- residential facilities --- older people --- Alzheimer's --- social robots --- companion robots --- MARIO --- qualitative research --- benchmarking --- quality indicators --- health care --- quality of health care --- care competence --- nursing assistants --- disabled elderly --- affect --- depressive symptoms --- activity participation --- aged 80 and over --- burnout --- job value --- job maintenance --- social support --- care worker --- elder abuse --- good treatment --- humanization --- institutions --- mistreatment --- staff --- person-centered treatment --- quality measurement --- scoping review --- quality improvement --- implementation science --- job competency --- intention to stay --- intrinsic job satisfaction --- extrinsic job satisfaction

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This edited volume offers the first overview and reflective discussion of how design can contribute to people's wellbeing and mental health in the context of dementia, mental illness and neurodiversity. This book explores and promotes holistic, salutogenic and preventive strategies that recognise and respond to people's needs, wants, wishes and rights to further health, wellbeing and equality. Bringing together years of experience as designers and clinicians, the contributors to the book emphasise how design can be a collaborative, creative process as well as an outcome of this process, and reveal how this is guided by mental health and design policy. Through its three parts, the book explores themes of ethics, citizenship and power relationships in co-design, providing an overview of current developments and approaches in co-design; of the culturally and value sensitive adaptation of design interventions and their applications, many of which are a result of co-design; and of policy and related standards in and for design and mental health. In this way, the book demonstrates how design can help to support people, their care partners and care professionals in promoting mental health and wellbeing, and it offers a rich resource on how to create a sustainable future for care in this domain. The book provides a unique and holistic overview and resource for designers, researchers, students, policy providers and health and care professionals to help support the development and adoption of person-centred design processes and interventions.

Design --- Well-being. --- People with mental disabilities --- Human factors. --- Mental health. --- Well-being --- Bien-être --- Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle --- Facteurs humains --- Santé mentale