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Improving Work Satisfaction amongst Nursing Staff and Quality of Care for Elderly Patients with Dementia: Some Policy Implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2008

Alan Gilloran ,
Alex Robertson ,
Tom McGlew  and
Kevin McKee
Alan Gilloran
Affiliation:
Department of Management and Social Sciences, Queen Margaret College, Clerwood Terrace, Edinburgh EH 12 8TS, Scotland.
Alex Robertson
Affiliation:
Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Edinburgh, William Robertson Building, Edinburgh.
Tom McGlew
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, 18, Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh.
Kevin McKee
Affiliation:
Centre for Health Care for the Elderly, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England.
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Abstract

This paper discusses the policy implications for encouraging a high quality of service provision in hospital for elderly people with dementia. Contemporary policy is examined and the continuing need for long-stay beds is highlighted, particularly in Scotland. The measurement of the quality of care in nursing is reviewed and concern is expressed over whether the patients or only the audit score will benefit from any change in practice. Ways of improving both work satisfaction and the quality of care are recommended on the basis of a study of psychogeriatric wards in NHS hospitals in Scotland.

Keywords

Nurses' work satisfactionquality of carepatients with dementia
Type
Research Article
Information
Ageing & Society , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 1995 , pp. 375 - 391
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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