All Outputs (4)

Practice based approaches to supporting the work related wellbeing of frontline care workers in care homes: A Scoping Review (2021)
Journal Article
Johnston, L., Malcolm, C., Rambabu, L., Hockley, J., & Shenkin, S. D. (2021). Practice based approaches to supporting the work related wellbeing of frontline care workers in care homes: A Scoping Review. Journal of Long-Term Care, 2021, 230-240. https://d

The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the need to ensure that strategic and operational approaches to retain high quality, resilient frontline care home workers are informed by context specific, high quality evidence. A targeted scoping review asked t... Read More about Practice based approaches to supporting the work related wellbeing of frontline care workers in care homes: A Scoping Review.

What does effective end-of-life care at home for children look like? A qualitative interview study exploring the perspectives of bereaved parents (2021)
Journal Article
Malcolm, C., & Knighting, K. (2021). What does effective end-of-life care at home for children look like? A qualitative interview study exploring the perspectives of bereaved parents. Palliative Medicine, 35(8), 1602-1611. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163

Background: End-of-life care for children with life-shortening conditions is provided in a range of settings including hospital, hospice and home. What home-based, end-of-life care should entail or what best practice might look like is not widely re... Read More about What does effective end-of-life care at home for children look like? A qualitative interview study exploring the perspectives of bereaved parents.

Avoiding Burnout of the Care Home Workforce During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Sharing National Learning and Local Initiatives (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Johnston, L., Malcolm, C., Rambabu, L., Hockley, J., & Shenkin, S. D. (2021). Avoiding Burnout of the Care Home Workforce During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Sharing National Learning and Local Initiatives. Age and ageing, 50(Suppl. 1), i12-i42. http

Introduction COVID-19 in care homes has heightened the risk of staff burnout, undermining already problematic staff retention and low morale. There has been an associated proliferation of resources and online initiatives to support frontline workers... Read More about Avoiding Burnout of the Care Home Workforce During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Sharing National Learning and Local Initiatives.

Avoiding Burnout of Care Home Workforce (2021)
Report
Johnston, L., & Malcolm, C. (2021). Avoiding Burnout of Care Home Workforce. Edinburgh: CSO

This small study focused on the resources available and used to support the wellbeing and mental health of frontline care workers (FCW) in care homes for older people. It had two aims; (1) to identify and collate key resources of relevance to FCWs an... Read More about Avoiding Burnout of Care Home Workforce.