Report published on night-time care in care homes
Care England, in partnership with Adaptive Care, has published a report entitled, ‘From Routine Checks to Needs-Led Monitoring – Modernising night-time care’.
The report looks at the traditional model of night-time checking on residents and advocates a more modern approach of acoustic and visual monitoring in night-time care. The report uses evidence and case studies to provide insight and references dementia care.
Care England say:
“The uncomfortable truth is that routine hourly checks are no longer aligned with modern care. They interrupt sleep and increase distress, particularly for people living with dementia, absorb significant staff time with limited clinical value, and provide only intermittent reassurance while missing what can be life changing events between checks.
This report introduces a fundamentally different approach to night-time care: continuous, needs-led monitoring guided by human judgement. Instead of waking residents on a schedule, care teams are enabled to maintain constant, real-time awareness of risk, respond immediately when intervention is genuinely required, and deliver safer, calmer, and more dignified care throughout the night. This is not about replacing staff but about transforming how care is delivered when it matters most.”
You can download the report here: https://smartdirectory.careengland.org.uk/wp-nightime-care-download
Care England and Adaptive Care are offering a study tour to the Netherlands for senior social care leaders to see how the model being proposed in this report has been embedded. For more information, please email: tours@adaptivecare.co.uk