Care Homes
Use this guide to find information resources about care homes, nursing homes and residential care for older people including books, reports and journal articles.
Key Resources
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This comprehensive resource supports nursing care in older peoples care homes. It follows a resident's journey from pre admission to end of life. The role of nursing staff in supporting the resident and their family is explored.
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Declercq A, de Stampa M, Geffen L. et al. (2020) Why, in almost all countries, was residential care for older people so badly affected by COVID-19? (OSE working paper series, opinion paper no 23). Brussels: Observatoire Social European.
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Dunn P, Allen L, Humphries R and Alderwick H (2020) Adult social care and COVID-19: assessing the policy response in England so far (briefing July 2020). London: The Health Foundation.
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Books
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![Book cover](https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Images/Books-140x200/Care-homes/Baker-Visiting-the-memory.jpg?h=216&w=140&la=en&hash=CAEA859C2DCDACE8C14D37E17F1D8568)
![Book cover](https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Images/Books-140x200/Care-homes/Carmody-nursing-older-people.jpg?h=200&w=140&la=en&hash=FD7A5A6EBB513B35AA100BE8BE23BD98)
![Book cover](https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Images/Books-140x200/Care-homes/Caspi.jpeg?h=199&w=140&la=en&hash=87292E55BF3A0C8C001668770C0C1210)
![Book cover](https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Images/Books-140x200/Care-homes/Cunningham-nursing-skills.jpg?h=220&w=140&la=en&hash=F5E096D0BC79B320FA15C6B5B758BE3A)
![Eliopoulos-Essentials-of-long-term](https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Images/Books-140x200/Care-homes/Eliopoulos-Essentials-of-long-term-1.jpg?h=200&w=140&la=en&hash=561F450F4862AB20022DC7C24BA536F4)
![Eliopoulos C (2015) Fast facts for the long-term care nurse: what nursing home and assisted living nurses need to know in nutshell, New York: Springer.](https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Images/Books-140x200/Care-homes/Eliopoulos-Fast-facts.jpg?h=217&w=140&la=en&hash=0872D1C1B9D608FCDCF2E66E707B46A0)
![Book cover](https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Images/Books-140x200/Care-homes/Johnson-Welcoming-LGBT-residents.jpeg?h=197&w=140&la=en&hash=A248F6CE8EAC3E9C672B49E82B0EC263)
![Book cover](https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Images/Books-140x200/Care-of-the-older-people/Ross-Redferns.png?h=172&w=140&la=en&hash=820357A3C04C73928AABF6643A760A71)
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Journal articles
Journals
![International Journal of Older People Nursing](https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Images/Journals/International-Journal-Older-People-Nursing.jpg?h=200&w=135&la=en&hash=171BA157FC59459F62F4A23A2CEF994A)
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