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Financial care models in Scotland and the UK
- Authors:
- BELL David, BOWES Alison
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 106p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The study begins by outlining current care policy for older people in the UK, and the development and context of free personal care in Scotland. It then explores the Scottish situation and finds that the similarities are sufficiently strong to argue that Scotland is a good exemplar for social care policies elsewhere in Great Britain. The practical problems encountered in Scotland during its introduction are assessed in detail, from the point of view of both the suppliers of care, and the older people themselves. Looking forward, the authors identify key threats to the sustainability of the Scottish policy and conclude by reviewing the wider lessons for the UK as a whole in designing policies to care for older people.
Support for majority and minority ethnic groups at home- older people's perspectives
- Authors:
- BOWES Alison, MACDONALD Charlotte
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Time for care: exploring time use by carers of older people
- Authors:
- BOWES Alison, DAWSON Alison, ASHWORTH Rosalie
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 40(8), 2020, pp.1735-1758.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The paper focuses on temporal aspects of informal caring for older people. Limitations of large-scale surveys in capturing such data are noted and time-use methodology, despite its own limitations, is proposed as a promising alternative. Adopting a critical perspective on time that includes carers’ own conceptualisations, we report the findings of a qualitative study of carers’ time use. Sixty-two interviews with carers, male/female, co-resident/not co-resident, employed/not employed, and located across Great Britain were conducted. Analysis considered people's own diverse and ambiguous views of their care activities. Carers’ accounts of their time revealed non-linear experiences and a sense of being permanently on call. Interviewees often travelled distances to engage in support activities with or for older people. Changes over time were pervasive, increasing or reducing care requirements. Unanticipated events could precipitate radical changes in time use. Managing time, exercising temporal agency, was particularly apparent in accounts of care, employment, other family responsibilities and choices about friendship. Measurement of carers’ time use which draws on the conceptual foundation of carers’ own perspectives on time may provide more effective quantitative understanding of the temporal aspects of caring. It should not pre-define time, must grasp a variety of tasks, take account of intermittent activity, incorporate the 24–7 experience of many carers and demonstrate how caring time interacts with other time. (Publisher abstract)
Re-thinking harm and abuse: insights from a lifespan perspective
- Authors:
- DANIEL Brigid, BOWES Alison
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 41(5), July 2011, pp.820-836.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The protection of children is a well-studied area, and practice in this area had been transferred to other vulnerable groups. However there has been little research into areas such as significant harm to children, elder abuse and domestic violence though a lifespan approach. This article, drawing on material presented during an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) seminar series, adopts a lifespan view to understanding harm and abuse and explores how this can reveal insights for a more generic understanding and practice in protection services. The article provides varying social constructions and varying recognition of concepts of harm and abuse. It explores responses to harm and abuse, and suggests that formal systems tend to present clear victims and perpetrators. Service categories can be unhelpful as they may not reflect experiences or address the wider contexts in which these are embedded. The lifespan approach provides a means for comparing and contrasting issues raised within specific areas of need and service delivery. It is a viewpoint which raises new questions about understanding harm and abuse and helpful insights which have implications for policy and practice.
Family support and community care: a study of South Asian older people
- Authors:
- BOWES Alison, DAR Naira, SRIVASTAVA Archana
- Publisher:
- The Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 101p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Family support and community care: a study of South Asian older people
- Authors:
- BOWES Alison, DAR Naira, SRIVASTAVA Archana
- Publisher:
- The Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Cultural diversity and the mistreatment of older people in black and minority ethnic communities: some implications for service provision
- Authors:
- BOWES Alison, AVAN Ghizala, MACINTOSH Sherry Bien
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 24(3), 2012, pp.251-274.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article considers understandings and experiences of mistreatment of older people in black and minority ethnic (BME) communities. It describes a study which aimed to identify the impact of cultural diversity on understandings of mistreatment of older people and to explore the implications of these cultural factors for the provision of improved services to older people in BME communities experiencing maltreatment. The study included qualitative interviews conducted with 28 service providers and with 58 people from a wide range of BME communities. Following analysis of these interviews, a series of 7 focus groups involving community members and 1 involving service providers were conducted to explore the fit and gaps between the service providers’ views and the community experiences. The findings show that clear gaps exist between service provision and people experiencing mistreatment due to structural and contextual factors, with cultural factors having a relatively minor impact. Implications for good practice are discussed; these focus on more general processes of exclusion, both of BME older people and BME communities generally and the BME voluntary sector in particular.
Age, ethnicity and equalities: synthesising policy and practice messages from two recent studies of elder abuse in the UK
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, BOWES Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 9(2), April 2010, pp.255-265.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This paper, drawing on comparative discussion of two recent studies of elder abuse in the United Kingdom, outlines the how these studies fit into current policy contexts on adult safeguarding. Elder abuse among people from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups is a complex issues with five key components: cross-cultural divides; professional’s lack of skill with ethnic diversity; family structures dictate that explanations of abuse vary; BME groups may experience additional exclusion through racism, compounding the effects of ageism; and finally the effects of migration, language and culture may impact abuse. Interviews were carried out with 2,111 individuals, aged 66 or older, in the UK between March and September 2006, and discussed specific experiences of abuse and maltreatment. The authors’ discussion draws out the central messages and identifies the challenges that the studies present to recent policy debates and innovations. These relate to the need to properly integrate both wider older people's issues and issues of racism and ethnicity within developments in adult safeguarding policy as well as social care services as the personalisation agenda advances.
Research on the costs of long-term care for older people – current and emerging issues
- Author:
- BOWES Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 6(3), July 2007, pp.447-459.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This review explores debates concerning the costs of long-term care for older people, and aims to give an overview of the recent and current research agenda in this area, referring primarily to work published 2000–2006. The focus of much work is on the identification of costs, their distribution and the contexts of policy and delivery of services in which these operate.
Support for majority and minority ethnic groups at home - older people's perspectives
- Authors:
- BOWES Alison, MACDONALD Charlotte
- Publisher:
- Scottish Executive Central Research Unit. 2000 8p
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- pp
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This study compares needs and service provision from the perspectives of older people drawn from majority and minority ethnic populations in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The minority ethnic group were people of South Asian origin. The results of two studies provide insight into differences and similarities in relation to knowledge about services, access to services, experience of health care, and informal networks of support.