Enhancing Residential Care

Association for Dementia Studies Blog (opens new window) - University of Worcester

• How do care homes find out about study findings that are relevant to them, without subscribing to the many journals out there (and without the time to read them all!!)?
• How do care homes know which findings they should be embedding into practice and how to prioritise where to start?
• Similarly, how do care homes find out about which workshops are on offer?
• How do you avoid disparity between the very large care home providers and the smaller ones? I came away with the impression that the researchers who were running training and workshops to care homes are doing so on a consultancy basis. With so much research now being conducted in social care, and with so many imminent changes to social care funding and uncertainty surrounding what the new social care funding framework due in 2028 will look like, providers will have to make increasingly difficult decisions on how to prioritise their training budgets. It is unlikely that even large training providers (70+ homes) would pay for even one consultant to deliver training to every home. But the large providers are more likely to be able to invest in innovation than smaller providers. So how do we ensure new innovations can be embedded consistently and equitably across the sector?
• How will the dementia care training standards framework keep up?