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Home care: delivering personal care and practical support to older people living in their own homes

  • NICE guideline
  • Reference number: NG21
  • Published:  17 September 2015
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  1. Education
  2. Audit and service improvement
  3. Research recommendations
  4. Guidance into practice

Tools and resources

Tools and resources to help you put the guidance into practice.

Education

  • Webinar: Evidence for strengths and asset-based approaches for social work (NICE/SCIE September 2019)

  • Quick guide: Discussing and planning medicines support - for home care managers providing medicines support

  • Quick guide: Effective record keeping and ordering of medicines - for home care managers providing medicines support

  • Quick guide: Better home care for older people - for people who arrange their own home care

Audit and service improvement

  • Tailored resource

  • Home Care roundtable report (PDF 600 KB)

    Published:
    22 April 2016
  • Baseline assessment tool (Excel 467 KB)

    Published:
    17 September 2015

Research recommendations

  • Research recommendations information

Guidance into practice

  • About the Into practice guide

  • Practical steps to improving the quality of care and services using NICE guidance

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