Date Published: 10 August 2021

This document describes the care home sector across the UK as it currently stands and recent initiatives taken to improve healthcare for care home residents, including specific initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic. It describes how health and wellbeing has traditionally been supported in care homes and sets out what good healthcare provision in a care home environment should look like.

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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Summary of recommendations
• 3. Context
• 4. Specific health concerns for care home residents
• 5. What does good look like?
• 6. Conclusion
• References
• Contributors

British Geriatrics Society Source: Ambitions for change: Improving healthcare in care homes | British Geriatrics Society