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Sion Williams

Researcher at Bangor University

Publications -  34
Citations -  580

Sion Williams is an academic researcher from Bangor University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dementia & Palliative care. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 33 publications receiving 535 citations. Previous affiliations of Sion Williams include Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board & RMIT University.

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Entry to care: positive choice or fait accompli? Developing a more proactive nursing response to the needs of older people and their carers*

TL;DR: A four-stage typology of admission is suggested: the positive choice, the rationalized alternative, the discredited option, and the fait accompli, with implications for professionals, particularly nurses, working with older people and their carers.
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`Making mistakes': Using Co-Constructed Inquiry to illuminate meaning and relationships in the early adjustment to Alzheimer's disease — a single case study approach

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of a new qualitative research approach, Co-Constructed Inquiry, was used to develop a personal theory of the experience of living and adjusting to an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's.
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Relational practice as the key to ensuring quality care for frail older people: discharge planning as a case example

TL;DR: A grounded theory of the discharge experience is presented, suggesting that the quality of discharge hinges largely on whether the focus of efforts is on ‘pace’ (the desire to discharge older people as rapidly as possible) or ‘complexity” (where due account is taken of the complex interaction of medical and wider social issues).
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The challenges of improving discharge planning in Sweden and the UK : different but the same

TL;DR: Attempts to involve patients and carers in discharge planning in Sweden and the UK are described and a number of areas which require attention if the ideals of patient and carer empowerment are to be achieved are identified.