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Evaluation of 1997/98 'Keep Warm This Winter' campaign
- Authors:
- ANDERSON Simon, SAWYER Becki
- Publisher:
- The Scottish Office Central Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Support at home: views of older people about their needs and access to services: 1999
- Author:
- MACDONALD Charlotte
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Residential care homes, Scotland 1999
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Balancing lives in sheltered housing
- Author:
- PERCIVAL John
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 9(3), September 1999, pp.9-11.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Summarises some of the findings of research into older people's social interactions in sheltered housing.
Figuring out adult abuse
- Authors:
- MCCREADIE Claudine, QUIGLEY Leo
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.2.99, 1999, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As recognition of the prevalence of adult abuse increases, the authors look at the lessons to be drawn from an experiment in Sheffield.
The decline of employment among older people in Britain
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Nigel
- Publisher:
- London School of Economics. Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary of a research paper focusing in particular on the employment prospects of men aged over forty five.
The perceived benefits of participating in volunteer and educational activities
- Authors:
- MORROW-HOWELL Nancy, KINNEVY Susan, MANN Marylen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 32(2), 1999, pp.65-80.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Outlines a programme evaluation of OASIS, a national non-profit organisation in the USA, which provides educational and volunteer opportunities to people over the age of 55. The survey results indicated that older adults perceive that they benefit from participation in these activities.
Functional and cognitive differences between cognitively-well people and people with dementia
- Authors:
- ROBINSON Susanna E., FISHER Anne G.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 62(10), October 1999, pp.466-471.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Evaluates the ability of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) and the CAMCOG (the cognitive component of the Cambridge Examination for Mental Status in the Elderly) to differentiate between elderly people who were cognitively well and those with dementia. Results found that the AMPS process skills scale was able to identify all subjects with dementia, whereas the CAMCOG failed to detect 20 percent of these subjects.
Carers tap into the information highway
- Author:
- MAGNUSSON Lennart
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 20.10.99, 1999, pp.48-50.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on the use of technology, including videophones, to offer carers of older people support and advice in their homes. Discusses the work of ACTION, the European funded project Assisting Carers Using Telematics Interventions to meet Older Persons' Needs.
Enhancing the quality of extended life years. Identification of the oldest old with a very good and very poor quality of life
- Authors:
- GRUNDY E., BOWLING A.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 3(3), August 1999, pp.199-212.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The objective of the study was to investigate quality of life in very old age by analysing what proportion of older people had cumulative difficulties across several domains of quality of life, what proportion had no or few problems, and how these distributions changed over time. The study confirms the great diversity of the elderly population, and the need to adopt a multidimensional perspective on quality of life in old age. The study is unique in its longitudinal analysis of a very elderly population, and in adopting a multi faceted approach, rather than analysing each domain of quality of life separately.