Residential care - resources
Here are links to evidence-based resources which support this area of practice. You may also want to refer to information about the national service frameworks and strategies across the UK.
Some of the resources on this page are in PDF format - see how to access PDF files.
Guidelines and guidance
Diabetes UK (2010) Good clinical practice guidelines for care home residents with diabetes: a revision document prepared by a task and finish group of Diabetes UK.
This updates the guidance published by the British Diabetic Association in 1999. It brings together the evidence base and the experiences of the multidisciplinary task and finish group to provide recommendations and guidance on many different aspects of diabetes care in a care home setting. The guidelines provide a framework for assessing the quality of diabetes care within care homes by the appropriate regulatory bodies. Ways in which the effectiveness of care can be monitored are discussed and an audit tool is to be made available.
Guidelines and Audit Implementation Network (2010) Guidelines and clinical standards of care for people with diabetes in care homes (PDF 225.70KB)
These guidelines published by GAIN in Northern Ireland set out four minimum standards of care for residents with diabetes in care homes, and provide accompanying guidance on different aspects of this care. The four standards will be subject to audit across Northern Ireland.
Systematic reviews and evidence summaries
Cochrane Review: Effect of the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus on the development of cognitive impairment and dementia
There is increasing interest in preventing cognitive impairment and dementia in later life. This review assesses the effects of different types and intensities of treatments for type 2 diabetes on cognitive function.
NHS Diabetes (2011) Knowledge and information guide: Homes, hospices and the housebound (PDF 392.50KB)
The purpose of the knowledge and information repository (KIR) is to provide easily accessible summaries of the latest guidance and important research relating to specific key topics. This summarises knowledge and information from guidelines, research and commissioning tools.
Other resources
Diabetes UK (2010) Information for carers of people with diabetes in the care home setting
These pages on the Diabetes UK website are designed to provide users with information about older people with diabetes in the care home setting. The information is based on the ‘Good clinical practice guidelines for care home residents’ published by Diabetes UK in 2010. The pages include information on food and nutrition, activity, hypoglycaemia in elderly people and specific care for elderly people.
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