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Social work and older people with dementia: meeting their housing needs
- Authors:
- MEANS Robin, MORBEY Hazel, McCLATCHEY Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 14(3), 2002, pp.5-14.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the potential contribution of both home improvement agencies (HIAs) and assistive technology to social work with older people with dementia. Argues that social workers have much to gain through working closely with specialist housing agencies and that this is most likely to happen if staff map availability of such support in their locality.
From poor law to community care: the development of welfare services for elderly people 1939 - 1971
- Authors:
- MEANS Robin, SMITH Randall
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 378p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Looks at the development of services for older people from 1939 to 1971. Contains chapters on: evacuation and older people in the Second World War; the emergence of 'reforms' in residential and domiciliary welfare services; the 1948 National Assistance Act and the provision of welfare services for older people; issues in residential care; the changing role of the state, family and voluntary organisations in helping older people avoid institutional care; the restructuring of welfare services for older people; and community care and older people.
Money 'handling', financial abuse elderly people with dementia: implications for welfare professionals
- Authors:
- MEANS Robin, LANGAN Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 4(6), November 1996, pp.353-358.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The ageing of the elderly population will mean an increase in the numbers of people with dementia and the thrust of community care reform suggests that many of these will continue to live in mainstream and sheltered housing. This article draws upon two different research projects to explore one implication of these trends, namely the 'money handling issue's (pension collection, bill payments, etc.) raised for social services and in particular for field level welfare professionals. Looks at the administrative framework for handling the social security benefits of others. Also draws on focus group interviews with field level staff to illustrate their anxieties and concerns over issues such as money left or lost in their house. Concludes that social services authorities need to improve radically training, support and good practice guidance available to field level staff on personal finance issues.
Handling other people's money
- Author:
- MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 2(4), June 1996, pp.25-28.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Charging elderly people for community care services is bringing increasing complexities and anxieties for care managers. This article describes the findings of a recent survey and gives a guide to the legal and administrative framework of handling other people's money.
Housing in later life: the housing finance implications of an ageing society
- Authors:
- MACKINTOSH Sheila, MEANS Robin, LEATHER Philip
- Publisher:
- University of Bristol. School of Advanced Urban Studies
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 170p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Examines the implications of the increase in the older population for housing policies and housing provision.
Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic of long-term care: is organizational integration the answer?
- Authors:
- GLENDINNING Caroline, MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 24(4), November 2004, pp.435-457.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Since 1997 the British government has actively promoted collaboration between health and social care services, culminating in proposals for fully integrated health and social care organizations -called Care Trusts - to address problems in co-ordinating services for older people. This paper draws on historical evidence to examine the origins and development of these difficulties. A consistent theme over the past 50 years has been the changing role of health services in the provision of long-term support for older people and the consequent redefinition of the boundaries between health and social services. However, these changes have largely not been matched by corresponding transfers of resources that might enable social services to meet their increased responsibilities. Moreover, the demands of the acute hospital sector risk marginalizing the social support valued by older people themselves. The paper argues that organizational restructuring will therefore fail to improve coordination between health and social services for older people unless these underlying issues are also addressed.
From community care to market care: the development of welfare services for older people
- Authors:
- MEANS Robin, MORBEY Hazel, SMITH Randall
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 210p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Focuses on the interpretation and development of national policy at local authority level. The authors outline the development of welfare services for older people from 1971 to 1993, and explore whether service developments in this period were as inadequate as claimed by proponents of radical change. Drawing on debates during this time, the text illuminates contemporary issues such as rationing care, the health and social care divide, the changing role of residential care and the growing emphasis on provider competition. The continuities and changes in the pre and post 1990 NHS and Community Care Act systems of community care are also examined. Contents include: community care and the modernisation of welfare; targeting, rationing and charging for home care services; the changing role of local authority residential care; the shifting boundaries between health and social care; towards a mixed economy of social care for older people?; towards quasi-markets in community care; developing community care for the future: lessons and issues from the past.
Charging and quasi-markets in community care: implications for elderly people with dementia
- Authors:
- MEANS Robin, LANGAN Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 30(3), September 1996, pp.244-262.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Social services authorities in the UK are increasingly involved in charging and fee collection activities with clients in receipt of community care services. Explores the implications of these developments for elderly people with dementia. Relates a critique of existing legal and administrative options for handling other people's money to the failure of charging and fee collection systems which have developed as a result of the community care reforms to address the particular needs of elderly people with dementia. A case study of policies in one local authority is outlined and this is followed by the presentation of the views of field level professionals who were interviewed in focus groups. The final section of the article considers the implications of a move to quasi-markets in social care for elderly people with dementia, particularly in terms of their vulnerability to financial exploitation.
Financial management and elderly people with dementia in the U.K.: as much a question of confusion as abuse?
- Authors:
- LANGAN Joan, MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 16(3), May 1996, pp.287-314.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Looks at a range of issues relating to financial management and elderly people with dementia. Discusses the law relating to personal finances for those who lack capacity, stressing the laws complexity and the gaps in present coverage. The article goes on to outline findings from research carried out within a social services authority in the north of England.
Personal finances, elderly people with dementia and the new community care
- Authors:
- LANGAN Joan, MEANS Robin
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Association
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 55p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Profiles the law relating to the handling of other people's money and goes on to identify how local authorities assess older people with dementia for fees and charges for residential care, nursing home care and domiciliary services. Also considers how welfare professionals deal with issues of day to day money handling when in the homes of older people with dementia. Concludes by looking at variations in local authority policy and practice in terms of both their willingness to formally take over responsibility for a client's financial affairs when there is no one else to do so, and their approach to confronting financial abuse through elder abuse strategies.