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Information and advice for older people: evidence review
- Author:
- AGE UK
- Publisher:
- Age UK
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 36
- Place of publication:
- London
At times of major policy and legal changes, the need for high-quality, up-to-date and impartial information and advice is especially important. This evidence review is part of a series produced by Age UK, to provide evidence to underpin decision-making for people involved in commissioning, service development, fundraising and influencing. It summarises some key policy developments that will affect many older people, and discusses the role and value of organisations specialising in information and advice provision. It provides examples of information and advice services for older people in other countries, and by Age UK's national and local groups on care, housing, benefits and money, and for black and minority ethnic people. (Original abstract)
Government response to the House of Lords Select Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change report of session 2012-13: 'Ready for ageing?' Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- TSO
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 40
- Place of publication:
- London
This Government welcomes the House of Lords Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change report 'Ready for ageing?', published on 14 March 2013. (HL 140 session 2012-13). The Government summarises its response as "Enabling people to live longer, more prosperous and healthier lives", and that it has "taken further major steps to address the challenges of an ageing society" since the report's publication. It responds to each theme in the Committee's report: extending working lives; secure retirement income; the health and care system; enabling, promoting and supporting independence; and looking to the future. It concludes that the House of Lords report "provides a valuable contribution to an ongoing public debate" and "It is vital that this remains a live issue for Government, the wider public sector and for society as a whole." (Original abstract)
Care-giving in dementia: research and applications
- Authors:
- JONES Gemma M.M., MIESEN Bere M.L. eds
- Publisher:
- Tavistock/Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 500p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Papers by health care professionals from England, other European countries, America and Australia on the latest developments in care provision written for those working in the field of dementia.
An exploration of the challenges of providing person-centred care for older care home residents with obesity
- Authors:
- PARKINSON Mark, THOMPSON Juliana
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(4), 2022, pp.e1112-e1122.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The aim of this study was to explore care home staff's views on the prevalence of obesity in older people and how well prepared they were for any rise in applications for placements. Thematic analysis was used to analyse focus group interview data collected from seven care homes/33 participants in N.E. England. Findings revealed rises in demand by older people with obesity for care home admittance, consistent with rising prevalence of obesity in this demographic nationally. Findings also highlight implications of rising prevalence of obesity in older people, particularly care home staff's ability to deliver person-centred care (PCC) and the importance of appropriate support/recognition of this as an emergent issue to be addressed at a higher executive level and by health/social care authorities. Ways of ensuring PCC are discussed. Given continuing trends towards rising prevalence of obesity in this population, the findings possess broader translational potential. (Edited publisher abstract)
Direct payments for social care: options for managing the cash. How local authorities and financial institutions can make managing the finances easier for older people
- Authors:
- POLDERVAART Helena, MALENCZUK Lucy
- Publisher:
- Age UK
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 40
- Place of publication:
- London
This document provides an introduction to personalisation, personal budgets and direct payments, outlines the different payment systems used to deliver personal budgets and direct payments, draws attention to the barriers older people commonly face to independent use of payments, shares lessons from practice, and suggests possible improvements and solutions. (Publisher abstract)
Getting personal
- Author:
- TRUELAND Jennifer
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 11.10.01, 2001, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on the tensions that are rising as the four UK nations get set to start payments for nursing care - and in Scotland, personal care for elderly people.
Suicide statistics report 2016: including data for 2012-2014
- Author:
- SCOWCROFT Elizabeth
- Publisher:
- Samaritans
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 44
- Place of publication:
- London
A collation of suicide statistics for the UK, England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland using information available from the official statistics bodies for the years 2012-2014. The document provides data and a description of the suicide rates in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, identifying trends and including breakdowns by age group. It also provides details about how to use suicide data and the differences between countries’ ways of producing them. It reports that there were 6,581 suicides in the UK and Republic of Ireland, in 2014. The figures suggest that rates of suicide in men are decreasing and female rates are increasing, although men remain more than three times more likely to take their own lives than women across the UK and Republic of Ireland. (Edited publisher abstract)
Exploring the role of independent organisations in care coordination for older people in England
- Authors:
- XIE Chengqiu, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 14(4), 2014, pp.419-438.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Summary Social care policies advocate the provision of coordinated care and the involvement of the independent sector in service planning and delivery. This study explores the characteristics of the independent organisations involved in care coordination for older people, the tasks undertaken, and management of the interface between the commissioning authorities and these organisations. The findings are based on semistructured telephone interviews conducted in 2009 with representatives from 25 local authorities in England regarding 40 organisations. Findings All organisations identified are voluntary in nature. They were diverse in terms of size, staffing, and history, typically undertaking care coordination for discrete user groups but few exclusively for older people. A range of care coordination activities were reported: assessment, brokerage, support planning, and monitoring and review. The extent of their involvement in these activities varied markedly. Commissioning and contracting arrangements differed; most organisations had short-term contracts. The main mechanism of contract monitoring was activity data returns; there was a lack of more detailed service evaluation. Both opportunities and challenges exist with regard to the future role of voluntary organisations in care coordination. Applications This study highlights the potential for voluntary organisations to undertake care coordination activities. To achieve this, partnership working between service commissioners and these organisations is required, and funding and support are essential for provider organisations to develop appropriate infrastructures. Information governance arrangements are required to facilitate information sharing. The potential expansion of the role of voluntary organisations and the implications for practitioners with respect to their employment prospects are explored. (Publisher abstract)
Abuse and neglect of older people: secondary analysis of UK prevalence study
- Authors:
- BIGGS Simon, et al
- Publishers:
- NatCen Social Research, King's College London
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 79
- Place of publication:
- London
This report describes secondary analysis of data from the UK Study of Abuse and Neglect of Older People (UKPS), which aimed to examine UK prevalence and risk factors associated with different definitions of mistreatment; to examine risk factors ‘in context’; and to explore a wider range of potential risk factors, using merged data from the Health Survey for England. This secondary analysis of the UKPS data examines key risk factors associated with mistreatment and with different types of mistreatment – neglect, and psychological, financial and physical abuse – by a family member, friend or care worker. Additional factors associated with mistreatment –such as mobility problems, falls, health problems, bladder problems and views of the local neighbourhood – are examined for England, using additional variables from the Health Survey for England 2005. The report notes how different definitions of mistreatment lead to differing estimates of prevalence, but that there is little evidence to support the likelihood that an older person subject to one form of abuse will also be subject to others. (Edited publisher abstract)
Home-care providers as collaborators in commissioning arrangements for older people
- Authors:
- DAVIES Karen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(2), 2022, pp.644-655.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In England, care to support people living at home is largely commissioned by local authorities (statutory organisations with responsibility for social care in specific localities) from non-statutory home-care providers (for-profit, not-for-profit, voluntary). This paper explores how managers of these services perceive commissioning arrangements and their impact on home-care providers, the care workforce and service users. Little formal research of providers’ experiences of working with local authorities in a commissioning model is available. A qualitative study employed semi-structured telephone interviews with 20 managers of for-profit home-care providers from 10 selected local authority areas in England. Data were analysed using thematic analysis to identify main and subsidiary themes. Home-care providers reported operating in a complex and changeable partnership with commissioners, characterised by: (a) relationships ranging from transactional to collaborative, (b) providers expressing a strong sense of public service motivation, (c) commissioning practices that were complex to negotiate, time-consuming and overly prescriptive, (d) frequent changes in commissioning practices and a perceived lack of strategic planning, which were reported as contributing to uncertainty and tension for providers and confusion for service users. Attempting to operate a market model with tightly prescribed contracts is likely to be unsustainable. An alternative approach based on a collaborative model of joint responsibility for providing home care is recommended drawing on a conceptual framework of principal–steward relationships in contracting. (Edited publisher abstract)