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Consumerism versus empowerment: a principal approach to the involvement of older service users
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, WALKER Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 24(4), October 1996, pp.375-393.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Critically evaluates the particular approach to user involvement and user empowerment adopted by the British government, which it argues is overly shallow. The article use the term 'consumerism' to convey the market analogy underpinning the government's policy and contrast this with genuine empowerment. The article also contains an outline of the eight key principles according to which the empowerment of service users could be realised. Finally, a practical example is used to show how to achieve the empowerment of frail older people.
Unit trusts
- Authors:
- WARREN Lorna, WALKER Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.9.96, 1996, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses how a radical scheme designed to help elderly people remain independent, fell down because the local authority was unable to find the resources to finance it.
Older people with learning difficulties leaving institutional care - a case of double jeopardy
- Authors:
- WALKER Alan, WALKER Carol, RYAN Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 16(2), March 1996, pp.125-150.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
People with learning difficulties are now surviving into old age and more and more of them are being resettled from long-stay hospitals. This article examines some of the key barriers facing, and dilemmas involved in, the provision of community-based services to this newly emerging user group. Recent field research on older people with learning difficulties who have been resettled into the community is used to illustrate the challenges facing service providers. Particular reference is made to the impact of age discrimination and traditional differences between service specialisms. Shows that both official definitions of need in old age and the aspirations of the service responses to those needs have been artificially constructed in very narrow terms, especially when compared with the principled approach to service provision for younger people with learning difficulties.
Fair shares for all: disparities in service provision for different groups of people with learning difficulties living in the community
- Authors:
- WALKER Carol, RYAN Tony, WALKER Alan
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 87p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Examines the interaction between the formal service sector and three groups of people with learning difficulties: those resettled from long-stay hospitals; those resettled within the community from hostels or the family home; and those living with their families. Finds that funding arrangements and traditional service provider categories work against the provision of a combined service for all people with learning difficulties, and that people living with their families and older people are particularly vulnerable under current arrangements.
Changing services for older people: the Neighbourhood Support Units innovation
- Authors:
- WALKER Alan, WARREN Lorna
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 196p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Presents findings from a research project evaluating the outcomes of the Neighbourhood Support Units innovation in Sheffield. Key issues raised include the goals to create more flexible tailor made services and the promotion of user and carer responsive forms of community care provision.