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Mental wellbeing of older people in care homes

  • Quality standard
  • Reference number: QS50
  • Published:  12 December 2013
  • Quality standard
  • Tools and resources
  • History

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  1. Implementation support
  2. Education
  3. Audit and service improvement
  4. Guidance into practice

Tools and resources

Tools and resources to help you put the guidance into practice.

Implementation support

  • Implementation resources – Mental wellbeing in over 65s: occupational therapy and physical activity interventions

  • Implementation resources – Dementia: assessment, management and support for people living with dementia and their carers

  • Implementation resources – Common mental health problems: identification and pathways to care

  • Implementation resources – Delirium: prevention, diagnosis and management in hospital and long-term care

  • How to use quality standards

  • Endorsed resource – Making a Difference: Building positive relationships between care staff and residents

  • Endorsed resource - Living well through activity in care homes

Education

  • Quick guide: Promoting positive mental wellbeing for older people – for registered managers of care homes

  • Video: The Care Quality Commission and NICE's role in social care

  • Video: Mental wellbeing of older people in care homes - NICE quality standard

Audit and service improvement

  • Quality standard service improvement template (Excel 1.18 MB)

    Published:
    04 March 2025
  • Using quality standards to improve practice in care homes for older people (PDF 278 KB)

    Published:
    11 January 2015

Guidance into practice

  • About the Into practice guide

  • Practical steps to improving the quality of care and services using NICE guidance

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