Older UK sheltered housing tenants’ perceptions of wellbeing and their usage of hospital services

Cook, Glenda, Bailey, Cathy, Hodgson, Philip, Gray, Joanne, Barron, Emma, McMillan, Christine, Marston, Roy, Binks, Eleanor and Rose, Joanne (2017) Older UK sheltered housing tenants’ perceptions of wellbeing and their usage of hospital services. Health & Social Care in the Community, 25 (5). pp. 1644-1654. ISSN 1365-2524

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine sheltered housing tenants’ views of health and wellbeing, the strategies they adopted to support their wellbeing and their use of health and social care services through a Health Needs Assessment. Sheltered housing in the UK is a form of service-integrated housing for people, predominantly over 60. The study used a parallel, three-strand mixed method approach to encompass the tenants’ perceptions of health and wellbeing (n=96 participants), analysis of the service’s health and wellbeing database and analysis of emergency and elective hospital admissions (n= 978 tenant data sets for the period January to December 2012). Tenants’ perceptions of wellbeing were seen to reinforce much of the previous work on the subject with strategies required to sustain social, community, physical, economic, environmental, leisure, emotional and spiritual dimensions. Of the tenants’ self-reported chronic conditions, arthritis, heart conditions and breathing problems were identified as their most common health concerns. Hospital admission data indicated that 43% of the tenant population was admitted to hospital (886 admissions) with 53% emergency and 47% elective admissions. The potential cost of emergency as opposed to elective admissions was substantial. The mean length of stay for emergency admissions was 8.2 days (median 3.0 days). While elective hospital admission had a mean length of stay of 1.0 day (median 0.0 days). These results suggest the need for multi-professional health, social care and housing services interventions to facilitate sheltered housing tenants’ aspirations and support their strategies to live well and independently in their own homes. Equally there is a need to increase tenants’ awareness of health conditions and their management; the importance of services which offer facilitation, resources and support and the key role played by prevention and reablement.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: sheltered housing, older tenants, health needs assessment, older peoples’ health, wellbeing
Subjects: L500 Social Work
Department: Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing
Depositing User: Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited: 02 Sep 2016 13:22
Last Modified: 01 Aug 2021 12:36
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/27664

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