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Cleaned out by the ones you trust
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.08.07, 2007, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Approximately £2.1 million was stolen from older people last year in financial scams often involving family members and home care workers bent on abusing the faith placed in them. The author draws on a recent government funded report on abuse and neglect of older people in the UK to highlight the problem of financial abuse.
Income mobility among the elderly in Sweden during the 1990s
- Authors:
- ZAIDI Asghar, GUSTAFSSON Björn
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 16(2), January 2007, pp.84-93.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Using a large panel dataset, this article investigates the degree of, and explanatory factors for, income mobility amongst the elderly in Sweden during the 1990s. It contributes to literature on welfare indicators for the older population as it supplements the welfare picture of the income adequacy with insights into income certainty during old age. The study uses the administrative register data for Sweden, which provides a reliable record of incomes for a large sample of the elderly. Results for Sweden-born and foreign-born elderly persons are analysed separately and compared with corresponding groups of people of working age. The majority of the results indicate that the income of the older population is more stable than that of the working age population, and upward income mobility is not as usual among the elderly as among other groups. The multivariate regression analyses identify several explanatory factors affecting those elderly who experienced income mobility. Most importantly, the death of a spouse increases the probability of downward income mobility, particularly amongst women. These and other findings of this research point to triggers of income poverty in old age that should be taken into account in policies concerned with the level and indexation of retirement income of future pensioners.
Well connected
- Author:
- McCORMACK Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.06.07, 2007, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author reports on the Disconnected Mind project. The project is building on the Mental Health Survey, and an IQ test taken in 1947 by every child in Scotland born in 1936. For the project, 1,091 of the original participants were traced and agreed to re-sit the tests. The findings are now being complied on the role of diet, exercise, lifestyle and genetics have on our mental abilities as we age.
Planning for and responding to special needs of elders in natural disasters
- Authors:
- PEKOVIC Vukosava, SEFF Laura, ROTHMAN Max B.
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 31(4), Winter 2007, pp.37-41.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
This article explores the special needs of healthy and frail elders in relation to planning and responding to natural disasters, including hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms, heat waves, influenza, wildfires, floods and earthquakes.
Issues in mental health care for older adults after disasters
- Author:
- BROWN Lisa M.
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 31(4), Winter 2007, pp.21-26.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
This article describes key issues to consider when providing mental health care to older adults after a disaster. It covers strategies to assessment mental and medical health needs, provides an overview of interventions for use with older people during the recovery process, and identifies some of the challenges that might be encountered when providing services to older people across various settings.
Connecting future evacuation to current recovery: saving the lives of older people in the next catastrophe
- Authors:
- JENKINS Pamela, LASKA Shirley, WILLIAMSON Gretchen
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 31(4), Winter 2007, pp.49-52.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
The evacuation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was tragically inadequate for a significant number of residents. Older people were among those who faired the worst. This article describes how a combination of factors, including social characteristics and environmental conditions existing before Hurricane Katrina, put older people at enhanced risk compared to younger people. Recommendations from a community stakeholders group suggest how older people could have more influence and safety during current rebuilding efforts and in any future disaster.
Working beyond the state pension age in the United Kingdom: the role of working time flexibility and the effects on the home
- Authors:
- CEBULLA Andreas, BUTT Sarah, LYON Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 27(6), November 2007, pp.849-867.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The present and future security of employee-pension funding remains at the forefront of public debate across Europe and beyond. In the United Kingdom, to finance future pension entitlements it has been suggested that the state pension age be increased. This paper presents the results of analyses of four major national social surveys that have explored the working and living conditions of workers in paid employment after the state pension age. Comparing the circumstances of these workers with workers just below that age illustrates the extent to which it constitutes a break in the working and domestic lives of older people. The findings suggest that, in order to accommodate older workers in the workplace, more attention may need to be placed on informal as well as contractual arrangements of flexible working. Beyond part-time working, older workers rarely take up additional or alternative flexible working arrangements. At the same time, older workers continue to experience housework as burdensome, while in partnered households the gendered division of domestic labour prevails. Research and policy have yet to consider in depth these risks associated with working longer in life.
The outcomes of rehousing older homeless people: a longitudinal study
- Authors:
- CRANE Maureen, WARNES Anthony M.
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 27(6), November 2007, pp.891-918.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Older people who become homeless have attracted increasing attention in North America, Western Europe and Australia over the last 20 years, but there have been few projects dedicated to their support, and even fewer studies of the outcomes. This paper reports a longitudinal study of the resettlement of 64 older people who were rehoused into permanent accommodation from homeless people's hostels in England. Their progress was monitored for two years by face-to-face interviews. The theoretical model was that the outcomes of rehousing are a function of personal factors and behaviour, the support that people receive, and the characteristics of the new home. After 24 months, 28 respondents were housed and ‘settled’, 10 were housed but ‘unsettled’, 11 had abandoned their accommodation, and six had been evicted (nine had died or ceased contact). The factors that significantly associated with remaining housed and settled included: previous stable accommodation histories, revived contacts with relatives, taking up activities, and regular help from housing-support workers. Unsettledness and tenancy failure associated with prolonged prior homelessness, worries about living independently, and continuing contacts with homeless people. Rehousing older homeless people successfully is difficult, particularly among those with long histories of homelessness and instability, and more needs to be known about the types of accommodation and the types of support that promote tenancy sustainment.
Unmet needs of low-level services
- Authors:
- CLOUGH Roger, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 10(4), December 2007, pp.27-31.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article draws on consultations with older people produced for a Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) study on the unmet need for low-level services among older people in England published in 2007. Since it was published there have been significant changes to the social care scene. The Government has given further emphasis to individual budgets. Many local authorities have further restricted the criteria for eligibility to social care services, and publications such as 'Time to Care' (CSCI, 2007) have highlighted the shortcomings of home care services, as well as their strengths and importance. In this article, the authors set out to relate findings from their research to current realities.
Real-world problem solving and quality of life in older people
- Authors:
- GILHOOLY M. L., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Health Psychology, 12(4), November 2007, pp.587-600.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study examined relationships between quality of life (QoL) in older people and cognitive functioning in both abstract and real-world problem solving. Contributions of levels of mental, physical and social activities, self-rated and objective health status, self-rated cognitive functioning, socio-economic status, gender, real-world and abstract problem solving were examined in a regression study of factors related to QoL in older people. Participants (N=145) were 70-91 years of age. The current cognitive functioning was assessed by psychometric tests and real-world problem-solving tasks. Prior functioning was indexed by crystallized ability measures. QoL was assessed using the Leiden-Padua questionnaire (LEIPAD), Faces scales and Hospital and Anxiety Depression Scale. A single QoL factor was derived. Simultaneous multiple regressions indicated that QoL was related to real-world but not to abstract problem-solving ability. Separate contributions to QoL were also found for health and self-rated cognitive functioning. The present study replicates previous findings that abstract problem-solving ability is not related to QoL and supports the hypothesis that real-world or everyday problem-solving ability is associated with QoL in older people.