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Appetite for life: what can help improve the mealtime experience
- Author:
- MALLOY Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 19(6), November 2011, pp.35-37.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
For older people with dementia, mealtimes can be describes as an essential rhythm for each day, and can also be the source of the greatest contact between residents and care workers. In this article, the author describes her review of 13 studies from the UK on the mealtime experience for people with dementia in formal care settings. The article focuses specifically on what can help mealtimes to provide ‘food for the soul’ as much as they provide fuel for the body, and the importance of guidance and emotional support for care staff. The author concludes that mealtimes are a multifunctional experience for residents with dementia, and how care homes promote this essential activity will significantly impact on how effectively mealtimes enhance overall well-being for residents.
Soup runs in Central London: the right help in the right place at the right time?
- Authors:
- LANE Laura, POWER Anne
- Publisher:
- Crisis
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report aims to provide an independent and objective perspective on soup runs in the London Borough of Westminster. A soup run is broadly defined as any mobile food distribution service operating to serve the homeless. It appears that the issue of soup runs in Westminster has become contentious and controversial. Are they a valuable life-saving resource supporting the vulnerable or an outdated, poorly targeted and uncoordinated service that sustains damaging life styles? This study asked: Who uses the service? Why do people use the service? How important are they and where do they fit in with other homeless services in the borough? Ending rough sleeping has been a clear objective for the government and homeless agencies for more than decade. However current policies have some major gaps particularly for those without recourse to public funds and entrenched rough sleepers. The report suggests that, with their tolerant open-access ethos, soup runs can access many vulnerable people not reached through existing mainstream services. The authors set out proposals for ways forward in dealing with soup runs in Westminster. The most important of which, they suggest, is the need for closer partnership working and communication between the various organisations involved.
Personal social services local authority statistics: meals served and vehicle badges for the disabled year ending 31 March 1991. England
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- n.p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Personal social services local authority statistics: meals served and vehicle badges for the disabled year ending 31 March 1990. England
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 34p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Personal social services local authority statistics: meals served and vehicle badges for the disabled year ending 31 March 1988, England. (A/F88/18)
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 24p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Serving the community: the sustainability of lunch clubs in North East Wales and West Cheshire
- Authors:
- SPENCER Eileen, HANSON Margaret, COLLIS Bryan
- Journal article citation:
- Voluntary Sector Review, 5(3), 2014, pp.381-389.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Support for community-dwelling older people is frequently provided by the voluntary sector through small community groups, but little is known about their sustainability. This paper, based on research in North East Wales and West Cheshire, focuses on lunch clubs and explores the factors that affect their sustainability, from the perspective of the coordinators. The paper aims to share these experiences with voluntary organisations, commissioners, planners and policy makers who support small community groups within their provider network. (Publisher abstract)
The support priorities of multiply excluded homeless people and their compatibility with support agency agendas - new research into multiple exclusion homelessness
- Authors:
- BOWPITT Graham, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 14(1), 2011, pp.31-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
A research project has been completed by a team of researchers from Nottingham Trent and Salford Universities under the Multiple Exclusion Homelessness programme. The project sought to explore how far homelessness might be explained by inconsistencies between the priorities and agendas of homeless people and support agencies. In-depth interviews were conducted with 108 multiply excluded homeless people and 44 managers or frontline service providers in statutory and voluntary sector agencies that provide accommodation, support and advice to homeless people. The homeless people felt that the most effective help is offered when agencies and their staff are not constrained by enforcement or conditionality agendas, such as in soup runs, day centres, and outreach teams. Agencies whose priorities are influenced by other agendas arising from statutory limitations or government targets have conflicting priorities that sustain multiple exclusion homelessness in a number of key circumstances. The findings will enable policy-makers and practitioners to take better account of service user perspectives, experiences and priorities, thereby throwing light on the value of accommodation and support services and the likely consequences of their withdrawal.
Hot tea, dry toast and the responsibilisation of homeless people
- Author:
- WHITEFORD Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 9(2), April 2010, pp.193-205.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Responsible citizenship has become a central and defining concept that spans political divisions. This article critically explores the ever expanding, and much contested, vocabulary of responsible citizenship as it relates to homeless people in a small market town in rural Dorset, where a decision to introduce a payment system for hot food at a day-centre for rough sleepers was introduced. The author, describing how the desire to cultivate active and responsible citizens is experienced and perceived by the people who are affected by homelessness and other dimensions of social exclusion, shows that the logic of ‘responsibilisation’, which aims to ensure that difficult and troublesome individuals are made to accept prevailing social norms, is founded on a more fundamental concern with redefining the meaning of contemporary citizenship. This article focuses on the particular problems with this approach, using an alternative approach that argues that the problems and vulnerabilities associated with deep-rooted and chronic homelessness remain a significant obstacle to social inclusion and meaningful participation in community life.
Local authority personal social services statistics: community care; detailed statistics on local authority personal social services for adults, England, 1994
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 153p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes tables on: home help and home care services; meals services; and day care.
Diversification of old-age care services for older people: trade-offs between coverage, diversification and targeting in European countries
- Authors:
- SUNDSTRÖM Gerdt, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 5(1), January 2011, pp.35-42.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The two major public services for older people are institutional care and home care. In addition to these, a number of other low-level support services have also developed including transportation, meals-on-wheels, alarm systems, and day care. Using secondary analysis of a number of earlier surveys, this paper provides information on the way in which all of these types of support are allocated and who uses them in six different countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, England, Spain, and Israel. It also provides a closer scrutiny of Swedish service profiles. When all types of support are considered, service coverage in these countries is approximately 50% to 100% higher than for the two major types alone. The results suggest that countries with higher service levels target all their services more strictly by needs than countries with lower service levels. In countries with lower user rates, users may get what is available with little differentiation between their needs. The article suggests that a range of services, major and minor, may suit the varying needs of older people, and that minor services may also be used as an inexpensive substitute for full support.