Delayed discharge from hospital: supporting older people to exercise choice

TY - JOUR

T1 - Delayed discharge from hospital

T2 - supporting older people to exercise choice

AU - Cornes, Michelle

AU - Manthorpe, Jill

AU - Donaghy, Eddie

AU - Godfrey, Mary

AU - Hubbard, Gill

AU - Townsend, Jean

N1 - Copyright © 2008, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

PY - 2008/3/1

Y1 - 2008/3/1

N2 - The government's reimbursement policy, whereby local councils face fines if a patient cannot be discharged from hospital because they are waiting for an assessment etc, introduced new pressures into a system that was already fraught. One of the policy's aims is to allow people to exercise ‘genuine choice’ as regards their ongoing and longer-term care. Based on their research into the policy however, Michelle Cornes et al investigate whether choice really can be exercised when lying in a hospital bed.

AB - The government's reimbursement policy, whereby local councils face fines if a patient cannot be discharged from hospital because they are waiting for an assessment etc, introduced new pressures into a system that was already fraught. One of the policy's aims is to allow people to exercise ‘genuine choice’ as regards their ongoing and longer-term care. Based on their research into the policy however, Michelle Cornes et al investigate whether choice really can be exercised when lying in a hospital bed.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84993081959

U2 - 10.1108/13663666200800005

DO - 10.1108/13663666200800005

M3 - Review article

AN - SCOPUS:84993081959

SN - 1366-3666

VL - 12

SP - 16

EP - 20

JO - Working with Older People

JF - Working with Older People

IS - 1

ER -