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Towards lifetime neighbourhoods: designing sustainable communities for all: a discussion paper
- Author:
- HARDING Ed
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Communities and Local Government
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 34p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Lifetime neighbourhoods are those which offer everyone the best possible chance of health, wellbeing, and social, economic and civic engagement regardless of age. They provide the built environment, infrastructure, housing, services and shared social space that allow us to pursue our own ambitions for a high quality of life. They do not exclude us as we age, nor as we become frail or disabled.
Joint strategic needs assessment: reconciling new expectations with reality
- Authors:
- HARDING Ed, KANE Michelle
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 19(6), 2011, pp.37-44.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Health and Social Care Bill 2011 proposes a revised duty for upper tier local authorities and clinical commissioning groups to prepare joint strategic needs assessments (JSNA) together through health and wellbeing boards. In the light of this, this paper aims to review the readiness of JSNA to respond to the new roles and functions proposed in the Bill. It draws on information from JSNA surveys, thematic JSNA research exercises, and other evidence gathered from meetings and workshops. It looks at the JSNA learning curve 2007-2011 and the health of the JSNA process. It identifies and discusses 6 criteria for effective JSNA: providing quality insight into the health and wellbeing of local communities, engaging commissioners and key leaders of the new health and wellbeing system, driving investment decision-making, acting as single high-level strategic frameworks for health and wellbeing, forging new alliances to impact on wider determinants of health, and contributing to more transparent and accountable decision-making. The authors conclude that despite significant progress, raised expectations pose a serious challenge, and suggest that members of health and wellbeing boards should audit the quality of their existing JSNA.
Dementia in my family: taking an intergenerational approach to dementia
- Authors:
- HARDING Ed, et al
- Publisher:
- Alliance for Health and the Future
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
There are around 5.5 million Europeans with dementia. There are more new cases of dementia per year than of stroke, diabetes or breast cancer. With the ageing of the population and no cure in the foreseeable future for dementia, these numbers are bound to increase in years to come. This report helps to promote an intergenerational approach to dementia. The report begins by highlighting key facts about dementia. It then describes the role that the family plays as well as the impact of dementia on the entire family, before moving on to looking at successful initiatives across Europe in which different generations work together to lessen the burden of dementia in their communities. Finally, the book proposes ways in which communities may support all generations as they cope with dementia within their families. The report is based on a workshop held in June 2006 at the European Social Services conference in Vienna.
Joint strategic needs assessment: a springboard for action
- Authors:
- HARDING Ed, et al
- Publisher:
- Local Government Improvement and Development
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Joint strategic needs assessments (JSNAs) have been a statutory requirement since April 2008. As a result of the coalition government’s proposals for health and social care policy, JSNAs have moved centre stage and sit at the heart of local health improvement. Health and wellbeing boards, convened by local authorities, will be responsible for leading the JSNA process. This guide aims to provide advice and information to emerging health and wellbeing boards undertaking a new generation of enhanced JSNA in a changing economic environment, assisting them to design JSNAs to reflect local circumstances and wider policy developments. It aims to help health and wellbeing boards ask the right questions about the JSNA, understand the range of good practice in other areas, and decide how the JSNA will inform the new Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWS). The tool contains 7 quality themes-based worksheets to assist in deciding on a JSNA approach. The worksheets comprise a key message, in-depth questions, discussion points, case studies, and a nominal position to use for comparison.
Building our futures: meeting the housing needs of an ageing population
- Authors:
- EDWARDS Margaret, HARDING Ed
- Publisher:
- International Longevity Centre UK
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 27p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The aim of this report is to assist people involved in planning for housing and related services. It is specifically about the implications of an ageing population over the next 25 years for the key government priority of preparing decent homes for 'the whole community'.
The state of play in person-centred care: a pragmatic review of how person-centred care is defined, applied and measured, featuring selected key contributors and case studies across the field
- Authors:
- HARDING Ed, WAIT Suzanne, SCRUTTON Jonathan
- Publisher:
- Health Policy Partnership
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 139
- Place of publication:
- London
A comprehensive picture of the state of play in research, implementation and measurement of person-centred care, looking at the future direction and gap analysis of each of these fields, and highlighting key work, barriers and opportunities to progress. Three key conceptual pillars emerged from the research looking at person-centred care as: an overarching grouping of concepts involving shared decision-making, self-management support, patient information, care planning, and integrated care, as well as better communication between healthcare professionals and patients; practice that emphasises personhood; and partnership. The report reveals that there is huge diversity in best practice models, and an enormous opportunity for different fields of activity to learn from each other. The lack of conceptual clarity and clear definitions in the research, however, may impede the replication of successful innovations in care and mainstream implementation remains a challenge. The report identities key areas of activity in the implementation and measurement of person-centred care, illustrated through case studies, focusing on: organisational development as a powerful tool to embrace person-centred care in practice; the role of formal education, training and support for professional ethics and values; communication, shared decision-making, co-production and self-management as the most operationalised components of person-centred care; integrated care and health IT as enablers of person-centred care; and the critical role of measurement. (Edited publisher abstract)