Table 3 Description of settings/ services
Study and country | Study setting(s) / care service | Description or definitions of settings and or services | Transition points where perspectives are elicited |
|---|---|---|---|
Bauer et al. (2011) [28] Fitzgerald et al. (2011) [29] Australia | Rehab facility (n = 8) Residential care (n = 8) | Rehabilitation facility, short-term restorative care before discharge back home or to residential care. Residential care – Long term care facilities providing high and low level care. | Family carers interviewed 2 months after discharge about their experiences. |
Bloomer et al. (2016) [30] Australia | Geriatric evaluation and management facility | Provides rehabilitation to optimise function and determine future care needs. Majority of patients are transferred from acute care, a third of patients move to residential care. | Family carers of people with dementia were interviewed after admission into the Geriatric evaluation and management facility. Experiences were elicited about transitioning through the system from acute hospital. |
Digby et al. (2012) [31] Australia | Geriatric rehabilitation facility (sub-acute facility) | A facility providing in-patient evaluation, and management of older patients with complex needs, most transferred from acute care setting. | People living with dementia interviewed between 1 and 5 days after transferring from hospital to the facility. |
Emmett et al. (2014) [32] UK | Three general elderly care wards in two hospitals | Acute hospital care providing medical care for short-medium term acute episodes of care. | Patient and family carer interviews were conducted at point of discharge and 3 months post discharge. Health and social care perspectives elicited about discharge planning and decision-making. |
Gilmore-Bykovsky et al. (2017) [33] USA | 11 Skilled nursing facilities (SNF) | SNF’s provide high level of medical and nursing care. Services are provided for a limited time but can be more longer-term. | Nurses were interviewed about care when people had transitioned from hospital into the skilled nursing facility. |
Kable et al. (2015) [34] Australia | Acute tertiary facility GP Practice Residential aged care setting | Acute hospital care Community care Long-term care facility. | Both hospital based and community based health care professionals’ perspectives of transitional care were elicited about care at the transition points of leaving hospital into the community. |
Kuluski et al. (2017) Canada [35] | Hospital setting, (alternate level of care (ALC)) | Patients who are fit for discharge but are waiting for long term care placement or community support. | Family carers perspectives were elicited whilst the patient was receiving the alternative level of care. |
Renehan et al. (2013) [36] Australia | Transitional Care programme which was called ‘Transition Care Cognitive Assessment and Management Pilot’ (TC-CAMP) | Dedicated (short term) beds within a residential aged care facility, used specifically for people living with dementia who were medically fit to be discharged from hospital and would be transferring to long term care. | Health and social care professionals from all of the transition points; hospital, TC-CAMP and discharge destination care home. Family carers perspectives were gathered post discharge from the TC-CAMP. |