title: Envisioning quality psychosocial care in nursing homes: the role of social work.
abstract: This article articulates a vision of excellent psychosocial care in nursing homes using a quality assurance perspective and illustrates how skills of professional social workers can contribute to enhanced psychosocial care in this setting. Building on knowledge of actual and best practice roles for social work in nursing homes, this article serves as a call to differentiate professional social work from paraprofessional social services to support quality improvements for interprofessional psychosocial care and improved quality of life outcomes for residents.
authors.affiliation: Baycrest, Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, Toronto, Canada. ksimons@research.baycrest.org
authors.forename: Kelsey
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Simons
authors.forename: Mercedes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bern-Klug
authors.forename: Sofia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: An
mesh_terms: D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes; D024382:Professional Role; D011610:Psychosocial Deprivation; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012947:Social Work