Care received at home, focusing on older adults (>60 years old). Other
Conditions
Interventions
This is an observational study, which will carry out a realist synthesis of the existing literature to understand safety within a home-based care context, analyse up to 6000 safety notifications from
Sponsors
Cardiff University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Work Package 2b (focus groups and interviews with professional stakeholders): 1. Adults (over the age of 18 years) 2. Stakeholders responsible for the planning, management or delivery of home-based care from across the four UK nation, plus perspectives from community teams and leaders. 3. Participant is willing and able to give informed consent Work Package 3 (interviews with people who receive care, carers, theirs families and personal consultees): 1. Participant is willing and able to give informed consent 2. Servicer users over the age of 60 years old, who currently receives home-based care, or used to receive home-based care and now resides within a care home or paid/unpaid carers. This group will also include family members or a 'personal consultee' who can discuss home-based care in lieu of people who receive home-based care but do not have the capacity to consent to participate. 3. Reside within Wales
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Work Package 2b (professional stakeholders and interviews) 1. If participants already sit within our oversight groups (e.g., Steering committee or Research Management group) 2. If they cannot give informed consent to participate Work Package 3 (interviews with service users/families/personal consultees or unpaid/paid carers): 1. If they cannot give informed consent to participate within the study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Concepts and constructs used to define safe home-based care are measured using realist synthesis of published literature 2. Characteristics of safety incidents in home-based care are measured using analysis of up to 6000 safety notifications from social care data sources 3. Professional stakeholder views on enablers and constraints to safe home-based care are measured using qualitative focus groups and interviews 4. Organisational factors influencing safe outcomes in home-based care are measured using qualitative focus groups and interviews with care providers and related organisations 5. Experiences and safety concerns of care recipients and their families/informal caregivers are measured using qualitative interviews 6. Multivoiced conceptualisation of safety in home-based care is developed using realist methodology combining synthesis of literature, quantitative summaries of safety notifications, and qualitative data from interviews and focus groups 7. Additional stakeholder perspectives on what matters to people receiving care will be collected at three stakeholder events | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| There are no secondary outcome measures | — |
Countries
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Wales
Contacts
Public ContactDeborah Morgan
Outcome results
None listed