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Component 2: regional housing experiences for senior citizens: report
- Author:
- WELFARE HOUSING POLICIES FOR SENIOR CITIZENS
- Publisher:
- Welfare Housing Policies for Senior Citizens
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 53p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This report is a result of Wel_Hops, (Welfare Housing Policies ) Component 2, Phase 1. It is built by report from all partners in WelHops. All partners have done analysis of experiences in their own country and / or in their region. They even have reported comparison with other European Countries. The goal has been 30 experiences in partner country and 15 in other EU countries. Criteria that have been used for selection of the experiences –preliminary screening, were taken from the Work Plan.
Working beyond 60: key policies and practices in Europe
- Author:
- REDAY-MULVIE Genevieve
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 220p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
While the question to why work beyond sixty has now become obvious, the how and for whom questions are the real topic of this study. Work after sixty - if it is to be feasible and widespread - has to be on a part-time basis to meet the wishes and needs of workers and companies. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the growing importance of work beyond sixty and a comparative discussion of new policies in several EU Member States as well as of company practice.
Social exclusion and insecurity among older Europeans: the influence of welfare regimes
- Author:
- OGG Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 25(1), January 2005, pp.69-90.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Explores social exclusion among older Europeans from 10 countries with 3 types of welfare regime, Nordic, Mediterranean and post-socialist. Data from the first round of the new European Social Survey are used to explore indicators of social exclusion. A measure of social exclusion and insecurity is constructed from indicators of regularity of meeting with friends and relatives, taking part in social activities, self-rated physical and mental health and income, and local area quality. Results confirm the findings of previous research showing a link between developed welfare regimes and low rates of social exclusion in old age. At the same time, more developed welfare regimes appear to deal less well with effects of separation and divorce. Mediterranean regimes show distinctive signs of stress, suggesting the supplementation or replacement of weakened immediate and extended family ties has not taken place. In all countries a higher level of education appears to play a crucial role in reducing the chances of being insecure or socially excluded in old age.
Comparison of suicide in people aged 65-74 and 75+ by gender in England and Wales and the major Western countries 1979-1999
- Authors:
- PRICHARD Colin, HANSEN Lars
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 20(1), January 2005, pp.17-25.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The factors most strongly associated with suicide are age and gender - more men than women, and, more people over 65 kill themselves. As a number of Governments have targets to reduce suicide levels we compare elderly suicide rates over a 20-year period in England and Wales. And the major Western countries focusing upon age and gender. Male GSPR: 65-74 suicide ratios fell significantly in six countries and in three for the 75+. Female GSPR: 65-74 suicide ratios fell in every country except Spain. Proportionately, there were more suicides in the over 65s in countries with an extended family tradition, Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Japan, than in the five secular countries. England and Wales male 65-74 suicide fell significantly more than Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Netherlands and the USA, and did significantly better than the other countries for all female senior citizen suicides. Suicide of the over-65s has improved in seven countries, especially in England and Wales, who had the greatest proportional reduction, which reflects well upon the psycho-geriatric and community services. However, in all countries, male 65-74 rates did not match the female out so extra efforts are needed to improve male rates.
What do we mean by integrated care?: a European interpretation
- Author:
- BILLINGS J. R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 13(5), October 2005, pp.13-20.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
It is suggested that a common understanding of integrated care between multi-professional staff is vital to prevent barriers to unification and quality of care. This paper examines qualitative data from PROCARE, a recently completed European project on integrated care for older people, to put forward an interpretation of what integrated care means to staff. Through thematic analysis, four main clusters were identified. The paper suggests that, while the analysis revealed a common and inter-related European interpretation that was somewhat idealised and moralistic, this was countered by challenges to its implementation that were inseparable from the rhetoric. The paper suggests that a collective, morally strong understanding is unable to prevent barriers to integrated care, and that tensions between services remain a prominent impediment.
Care of Europe's older people
- Author:
- DAYE Gertaud
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 6(2), July 2005, pp.21-24.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This paper explores dignity from the viewpoint of older Europeans themselves. General recommendations concerning policies for older persons are considered together with commitments included in action plans on aging, in relation to the questions of to what extent these texts can be seen as a means to guarantee the dignity of the older person? The inter-relatedness of recommendations concerning health, labour market and those on social protection policies are stressed and the impact on the dignity of older citizens highlighted. The use of language is explored, as is the presentation of older persons in the media and advertising and the impact on dignity. The paper also questions whether dignity, or rather the loss of dignity, is experienced similarly by all groups of older persons. Is there a difference for men and women, for persons from ethnic minorities and for persons with a disability who are becoming old? Finally it considers what kind of care we want when we are old - how do we wish to be taken care of once we are no longer able to live fully independent lives in our own homes?
Dignity and the older European: policy recommendations
- Authors:
- EDGAR Andrew, NORDENFELT Lennart
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 6(2), July 2005, pp.17-20.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
The Dignity and Older Europeans Research Group had produced a series of recommendations on policy. The policy recommendations are inspired by the data gathered from focus groups, as well as by the theoretical reflections on the concept of 'dignity'. This article introduces four core policy recommendations. The first reflects the rights of the older person, the second calls for the removal of ageism and ageist practices, the third concerns the regulatory frameworks needs in service provision and the fourth reflects the welfare entitlements of older people.
The four notions of dignity
- Authors:
- NORDENFELT Lennart, EDGAR Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 6(1), June 2005, pp.17-21.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Presents the theoretical model of dignity that has been created within the Dignity and Older Europeans (DOE) Project. The model consists of four kinds of dignity: the dignity of merit (social rank and formal positions in life); the dignity of moral stature (the result of moral deeds); the dignity of identity (the integrity of the subjects body, mind and sometimes self-image; and Menschenwurde (the universal dignity that pertains to all human beings to the same extent and cannot be lost as long as the person exists).
Care and social integration in European societies
- Editors:
- PFAU-EFFINGER Birgit, GEISSLER Birgit, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 324p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book provides descriptions and comparative analyses of the now complex and highly varied arrangements for the care of children, disabled and older people in Europe, set within the context of changing labour markets and welfare systems. It includes analyses of the modernisation of informal care and new forms of informal care, topics often neglected in the literature. Issues of gender, family change, social integration and citizenship are all explored in a series of chapters that report on original empirical, cross-national research. All contributors are high-ranking experts involved in the COST A13 Action Programme, funded by the European Union.
Educating for dignity
- Authors:
- TADD Win, DIEPPE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 6(2), July 2005, pp.4-9.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This paper describes the creation of the educational materials developed as part of the Dignity and Older Europeans Project. Following a discussion of the development process, the materials themselves are described. The materials include a poster of the dignity balance, which contains five core messages and illustrates the impact of both enhancing and violating individual dignity. The second product is a leaflet that also includes the dignity balance and lists of actions and approaches that will promote dignity or result in indignity. The final product to date is a multidisciplinary workbook, which is described in some detail. The workbook Educating for Dignity provides a brief outline of the theoretical model of dignity, and four different sections based on the empirical findings: understanding dignity, old age - what is it like to be an older person, dignity in care, and the impact of the system.