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Home, independence and community care: time for a wider vision?
- Author:
- MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 25(4), October 1997, pp.409-419.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article begins by looking at past policy assumptions about the importance of home and independence to older people. The second half of the article looks at present day assumptions on this issue as addressed by the 1990 National Health Service and Community Care Act and compares this to what older people themselves have to say. By drawing on research on older households the importance of home as a place of privacy and self identity is illustrated as is the rich and varied lives of these respondents both inside and outside their homes. Argues that local authorities as the lead agencies in community care should help to foster such independence and that this requires them to develop a broad vision of community care which covers issues such as transport, leisure and household maintenance.
Housing and community care: exploring the role of home improvement agencies
- Authors:
- SMART Gavin, MEANS Robin
- Publisher:
- Anchor Trust/Care and Repair England
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 107p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidlington
Research study looking at the contribution to community care services made by home improvement agencies (HIAs) through their home improvement and home adaptation work. Tests out how HIA's are helping to deliver the Government's commitment to housing being at the centre of community care, explores what constitutes success from the perspectives of health and social services agencies who have decided to partially fund HIA's, and contributes to the development of a cost effectiveness methodology which might help to demonstrate the value of HIA's in terms of enabling vulnerable people to remain in their own homes.