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

NICE guideline [NG21] Published: 17 September 2015

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Tools and resources

Tools to help you put the guidance into practice.

Education

  • Webinar: Evidence for strengths and asset-based approaches for social work (NICE/SCIE September 2019)  
  • Podcast: Person-centred home care (NICE/SCIE March 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 22 April 2016  
  • Baseline assessment tool Excel 467 KB 17 September 2015  

Shared learning

  • Shared learning information  

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