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Project

Quality assessment and improvement in residential and nursing homes. Well-being and involvement as keys for self-evaluation.

This project builds on a previous study that resulted in a pilot version of a self-evaluation instrument for nursing homes. This tool has to provide a guide for heads of settings and their teams to assess the levels of wellbeing and involvement in the residents. Both indicators at the process level, are regarded as touchstones for the quality of provision. Wellbeing refers to the satisfaction of basic needs and involvement to the amount and intensity of mental activity. Further, the instrument will contain tools to identify the strength of the actual approach and the possible entrances for interventions to promote wellbeing and involvement. This self-evaluation instrument must provide the sector of care of elderly an integrated set of materials allowing them to develop step by step more quality of life in both the elderly and the teams taking care of them. The actual research projects aims are: (1) to roll out the pilot-version in 5 (diverse) nursing homes and support their teams in the optimization of their practice; (2) improve, refine and finalize the instrument in all its components; (3) gaining insight in the diversity of quality in different domains and in relation with contextual factors and (4) collect inspirational examples of effective interventions in the perspective of dissemination through publication and training.
Date:15 Dec 2011 →  31 Dec 2012
Keywords:Involvement, Well-being, Elderly people, Quality assessment and improvement Nursi
Disciplines:Social work, Other sociology and anthropology