Envisioning Quality Psychosocial Care in Nursing Homes: The Role of Social Work

Kelsey Simons; Mercedes Bern-Klug; Sofia An

doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2012.07.016

Envisioning Quality Psychosocial Care in Nursing Homes: The Role of Social Work

Kelsey Simons, Mercedes Bern-Klug, Sofia An

Sociology and Anthropology Department

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Abstract

This article articulates a vision of excellent psychosocial care in nursing homes using a quality assurance perspective and illustrates how skills of professional social workers can contribute to enhanced psychosocial care in this setting. Building on knowledge of actual and best practice roles for social work in nursing homes, this article serves as a call to differentiate professional social work from paraprofessional social services to support quality improvements for interprofessional psychosocial care and improved quality of life outcomes for residents.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	800-805
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Volume	13
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2012.07.016
Publication status	Published - Nov 2012

Keywords

Nursing homes
Psychosocial care
Quality assurance
Social work

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Nursing(all)
Health Policy
Geriatrics and Gerontology

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