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The neighbourhood asset mapping of greater Fishponds: a project delivered by BAB community researchers
- Editors:
- MEANS Robin, WOODSPRING Naomi
- Publisher:
- Bristol Ageing Better
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 60
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This report presents the findings of a neighbourhood asset-mapping by community researchers in one area of Bristol, and includes their reflections on the asset-mapping process itself. The mapping included a range of organisations, clubs and activities where older people might engage, either as participants or volunteers, some of which might not be expressly focused on older people. Assets identified ranged from churches and traditional service providers to bicycling and gardening clubs to cafes to individuals who were seen as important resources in their neighbourhoods. The mapping also identified some of the community deficits, which included poor public transportation, obstacles to walkability, and a basic lack of resources and facilities. An important insight from the asset mapping work was how boundaries of wards and neighbourhood partnership areas are artificial from the point of view of both many community groups and many older people, with older residents accessing various assets across ward and neighbourhood partnership boundaries. (Edited publisher abstract)
Money matters in later life: financial management and elderly people in Kirklees
- Authors:
- LANGAN Joan, MEANS Robin
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 26p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Looks at issues around the management of the personal finances of older people with dementia.
Housing: the essential element in community care; the role of 'Care and Repair' and 'Staying put' projects
- Authors:
- HARRISON Lyn, MEANS Robin
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 108p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Research study looking at Anchor Housing Trust and Care and Repair Ltd's successes in developing housing agency services to assist older homeowners with repair and improvement work. Argues that these projects are extremely effective in delivering high quality information and advice, and that their work has improved the health and welfare of elderly and disabled people, enabling them to remain in the community. Makes recommendations for future development.
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.
Maintaining independence in later life: older people speaking
- Authors:
- LANGAN Joan, MEANS Robin, ROLFE Sue
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 35p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidlington
Policy makers are increasingly appreciating the importance of house and home to old people, and how this links to their desire to maintain their independence. This study makes a contribution to the debate via the views of older people themselves on the issues.
Surviving at the margins: older homeless people and the organisations that support them
- Authors:
- PANNELL Jenny, MEANS Robin, MORBEY Hazel
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 106p,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report profiles the breadth of work undertaken with older homeless people and reveals the great range and diversity of homelessness projects in the programme. One group of projects focused on resettlement and tenancy support roles, while others offered outreach, day centre, direct access and supported housing services.A minority of non-service delivery projects focused on developing homelessness services and researched the area. Key characteristics of the older people with whom the projects have worked are explored, alongside their presenting needs and the reasons for referral to older homelessness projects.
Surviving at the margins: older homeless people and the organisations that support them; summary
- Authors:
- PANNELL Jenny, MEANS Robin, MORBEY Hazel
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 3p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report profiles the breadth of work undertaken with older homeless people and reveals the great range and diversity of homelessness projects in the programme. One group of projects focused on resettlement and tenancy support roles, while others offered outreach, day centre, direct access and supported housing services.A minority of non-service delivery projects focused on developing homelessness services and researched the area. Key characteristics of the older people with whom the projects have worked are explored, alongside their presenting needs and the reasons for referral to older homelessness projects.
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.
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.
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.