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The effectiveness of the home help service with confused old people and their families
- Authors:
- LEVIN Enid, SINCLAIR Ian, GORBACH Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 3(2), 1985, pp.1-7.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
As part of a wider study of relatives supporting confused old people at home the authors considered the relevance of the home help service to the supporters' problems and its effectiveness in alleviating them. Although the service was often not received by old people living with others and presenting the most severe problems, it was generally appreciated by the supporters, relevant to their problems and apparently beneficial to their psychological health. Sometimes it apparently prevented institutional admission. Draws implications for the service and stresses the need to evaluate mainstream services as well as innovations in family support.
Privatisation of residential care for elderly people: the data hare and the policy tortoise?
- Author:
- McCOY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 3(1), 1985, pp.10-18.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Over the last 25 years, residential care for elderly people has grown fastest in the private sector but national policy makers have overlooked their own data. Current policy confuses issues of provision, subsidy an regulation. This paper argues that different sectors cater for different needs; and that privatisation has not reduced state spending but merely shifted it from local to central government. However, a more detailed study of the flow of clients is required before its value to elderly people and their carers can be assessed.
Exchange theory and helpers on the Kent community care scheme
- Author:
- QURESHI Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 3(1), 1985, pp.1-9.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
This article explores some of the issues involved in using nominally paid, locally-recruited helpers in the provision of services to dependent elderly people. Using data drawn from a study of the perceptions on one group of such helps on an experimental community care project, it is argued that some of the actions and attitudes of helpers, social workers, and elderly clients could be better understood and interpreted in the light of insights derived from the literature on social exchange.
Informal care: dilemmas for research, policy and planning and the local level
- Author:
- MILLER Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 3(1), 1985, pp.25-30.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
The importance of informal care as a key component of community care is increasingly being appreciated in the fields of research, policy making and planning in the social services. This article reviews some of the characteristics of informal care, with particular reference to recent research on informal care and the elderly. The author draws on his experience of a service review of care for elderly people in a large Shire County to identify some of the issues which confront local authorities in trying to integrate their services with informal networks.