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The Forms: designed to
work for you
- Written in clear English, clients
have a full understanding of what is being asked of them and
assessors can work through assessment with confidence.
- Coding provides greater clarity than general statements
such as ‘Mrs X suffers from back pain’. Once the care manager is familiar
with the questions, coding is quick to complete.
- Free text areas allow additional, individual points to be recorded.
Overall, the forms encourage the person-centric approach required by the
National Service Framework.
- Forms are visually uncluttered, and laid out to avoid ambiguity.
- Intent statements for each section reminds the user of the key
issues for each domain.
- Hints to help new users interpret the questions correctly.
- Advice to help ensure that the data is correctly entered.
- The information can be easily aggregated for use in reports and setting
objectives. It also allows for data to be shared between parties more effectively.
- Page markers, sizing of boxes and layout to make automatic data extraction
easier and more accurate.
- Introductory details and the
Consent Form enable the assessed individual to complete
sections of the report if they wish.
To accompany the
Forms is a support manual ‘
SAP Ability Assessment
for Older People: the MDS User Manual'
. The manual focuses on how care professionals
can interpret each individual’s situation and capture the
appropriate information. The advice recognises the nuances and
complexities of real-life situations and helps the user to
address these effectively.
The MDS assessment
triggers Clinical Assessment Protocols (CAPs) across the
different domains. There is also a support manual called the
‘SAP Ability Assessment
for Older People: the CAPs Manual’
.This
explains how the CAPs are derived, and how to develop a
care-plan that fully takes account of the issues uncovered in
the assessment.
More about the way
in which MDS meets the requirements of the Single Assessment
process can be found on the
SAP &
MDS
page.
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