Developing resources And minimum dataset for Care Homes’ Adoption (DACHA)
Gordon, Adam and Rand, Stacey and Crellin, Elizabeth and Allan, Stephen and Tracey, Freya and De Corte, Kaat and Lloyd, Therese and Brine, Richard and Carroll, Rachael and Towers, Ann-Marie and Burton, Jennifer and Akdur, Gizdem and Hanratty, Barbara and Webster, Lucy and Palmer, Sinead and Jones, Liz and Meyer, Julienne and Spilsbury, Karen and Killett, Anne and Wolter, Arne and Peryer, Guy and Goodman, Claire (2026) Developing resources And minimum dataset for Care Homes’ Adoption (DACHA). [Data Collection]
Description
The dataset comes from a pilot minimum dataset of older adult care home residents in England, UK.
The MDS includes data from (1) digital social care records (DCSRs) collected by care homes* and (2) routinely collected health and social care administrative data.
*The study involved care homes using DCSR software from two DCSR software providers. We worked with the software providers to extract data for participating residents / care homes.
The original research aims were to (1) understand the feasibility of generating a care home minimum dataset from routinely-collected data (2) to explore the feasibility and acceptability of inclusion of individual-level quality of life outcome measures – as well as the psychometric properties of these QoL measures to guide selection for the MDS and (3) to show the potential use and benefits of a MDS.
This anonymised version of the MDS pilot dataset contains two waves of data (Wave 1: March-June 2023 and Wave 2: October to Nov 2023). The study collected data from 996 residents of older adult care homes. This dataset includes data from 705 residents only, due to restricting to residents in Wave 1 with an age >= 65 years.
*** References:
Study protocol: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-071686
Main MDS paper: https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf001
Overall study report: https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/GJCG8715
*** To request a copy of the dataset, please complete this form: https://shorturl.at/uzGYv
| Additional information: | To request a copy please complete this online form: https://shorturl.at/uzGYv. | ||
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | care home, quality of life, outcomes, health, social care | ||
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare > HV59 Institutional care/home care | ||
| Institutional Unit: | Schools > School of Social Sciences > Centre for Health Services Studies Schools > School of Social Sciences > Personal Social Services Research Unit |
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| Depositing User: | Stacey Rand | ||
| Collection period: | From To March 2023 30 June 2023 |
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| Last Modified: | 15 Jun 2026 10:05 | ||
| Publication Date: | 15 June 2026 | ||
| URI: | https://data.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/625 | ||
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