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Scoping study of older people in rural Scotland (full text)
- Authors:
- PHILIP Lorna, et al
- Publisher:
- The Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 120p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Scoping study of older people in rural Scotland (summary)
- Authors:
- PHILIP Lorna, et al
- Publisher:
- The Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Guidelines for meeting national minimum care standards: care homes for older people
- Author:
- BORDESLEY INSTITUTE
- Publisher:
- Bordesley Institute
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 92p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Any organisation who owns or manages a care home is to undertake a Section 26 visit under the National Minimum Care Standards. Following the visits reports are produced and copies sent to the care home and to CSCI. Residential care is about providing an individual with a safe, warm, secure, homely environment. Although current trends are towards people remaining in their own home to maintain independence and to continue within their own community, for many people residential care is quite often a positive choice where they can receive a high quality standard of life supported by residential care.
Living well in later life: from prevention to promotion
- Authors:
- WISTOW Gerald, WADDINGTON Eileen, GODFREY Mary
- Publisher:
- University of Leeds. Nuffield Institute for Health
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This report argues for a switch in emphasis from avoiding higher intensity and more costly care to promoting older people's quality of life and their engagement in the community.
Supplementary guidance for older people with dementia
- Author:
- CARE STANDARDS INSPECTORATE FOR WALES
- Publisher:
- Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This supplementary guidance to the National Minimum Standards for Care Homes for Older People provides additional advice to inspectors when interpreting the relevant standards for people with dementia. It is not the intention of this guidance to replace or amend any particular standard. It does however take into account the Care Standards Act, associated regulations, NMS and relevant good practice literature.
Promoting independence: candidate handbook: S/NVQ level 3
- Author:
- NOLAN Yvonne
- Publisher:
- Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 360p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Candidates can now take a specialist route through their NVQ in order to work with the elderly or those with special needs. This title is specially written for these candidates. The title covers 5 mandatory units of the award and 10 of the option units, providing students with a choice in their selection of option units. Case studies encourage candidates to apply their learning in the context of the type of work they will be doing, whilst "Check It Out" sections aim to help candidates build on their own experiences and give them confidence in their work. "Test Yourself" sections ensure candidates understand all the theory they have learnt. "Active Knowledge" tasks help candidates to apply the theory in their own place of work.
Living the good life with autism
- Author:
- SCHNEIDER Edgar R.
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 154p.
- Place of publication:
- London
His discovery only in retirement that he had high-functioning autism provided the author with an explanation for his many differences. In this book he takes up the story, telling of his marriage to a like-minded woman, and of the day-to-day realities of life with this condition. His description of autistic attitudes towards relationships, politics, theology and health are rich and original. Schneider argues that if people with high-functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome are left to their own devices they are capable of making lives for themselves that are rich and rewarding.
Choices for the carer of an elderly relative
- Author:
- LEWYCKA Marina
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 118p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd
Being a carer may mean many different things - from living at a distance and keeping a check on things by telephone to taking on a full-time caring role. This book looks at the choices facing someone whose parent or other relative needs care. It helps readers look at their own circumstances and their own priorities and decide what is the best role for themselves - as well as the person being cared for.
Preparing older people's strategies: linking housing to health, social care and other local strategies
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, HOUSING CORPORATION
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 88p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document provides guidance on the preparation of housing strategies that link housing to health, social care, and other local strategies. The guidance follows a whole systems approach which acknowledges that housing services are one of a number of other services that together make up the whole system that affects older citizens. All local authorities are required to have an older people’s housing strategy. This document provides a framework for producing a strategy using a sample template comprising the following sections: an executive summary; an introduction to the strategy, setting the local context; identifying the housing ingredients, needs and demand; how the current housing and service systems work; planning for the future; proposals and recommendations; and taking the strategy forward. This document is aimed at those responsible for planning and delivering the housing function, but may also have a wider audience in health, social care, regeneration and planning.
Setting the direction: the Welsh Assembly Government's strategy for older people
- Author:
- HELP THE AGED
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Help the Aged supports the establishment and development of Forums. In this publication “Setting the Direction” they say:“ Across the UK, forums are harnessing the skills experience and abilities of older people to plan and deliver public and health services, to provide effective transport solutions to combat crime and encourage lifelong learning opportunities. Many forums work actively on local issues such as post office closures and access to hospitals and community health services, and on national issues like campaigning for better pensions”