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Direct support: direct payments and older people
- Author:
- LEECE Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 11(3), September 2001, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Draws together recent research to consider issues around direct payments that are important to older people. Looks briefly at the background to direct payments, how they work, and whether existing schemes are being made available to older people and if these are appropriate to their needs.
Implementing community care: is there really more choice?
- Author:
- LEECE Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 5(2), June 1995, pp.2-5.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Details findings from a study in 1994, undertaken for an MA in Gerontology at Keele, which looked at the experiences of the reforms, for a group of people in a county in the North West of England. It discusses the issues involved in achieving more choice for older people and concludes that in the county studied, client choice appears not to have increased, and in some areas of provision choice has actually decreased.