Monitoring activities in a long-term ward

Abstract

Moving the emphasis in long-term ward settings from just keeping people clean, dry and fed to providing improvement in their quality of life is a laudable aim, but this article, based on a six-month project, suggests that doing so is not as easy as it might first appear. The authors describe the development of an intervention programme for elderly women in a long-term ward and discuss some of the difficulties encountered in producing positive changes.