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HIV/AIDS and older people
- Author:
- RICKARD Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 5(3), September 1995, pp.2-6.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is generally perceived to be a problem that only affects younger people. This article looks at the risks and unique implications of HIV and AIDS for older people. Also looks at the service improvements that are required to address the problems facing older people with HIV/AIDS.
Minority elders in double jeopardy
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 4(2), May 1995, pp.31-32.
Age Concern England and the Commission for Racial Equality have announced a joint campaign to improve understanding of the needs of ethnic minority elders. Explains how they mean to achieve this.
Protecting elderly people: flaws in ageist arguments
- Author:
- RIVLIN Michael M.
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 6.5.95, 1995, pp.1179-1182.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Some form of rationing is necessary in medicine, and to use age as a criterion for rationing seems initially appealing. Many of the criteria currently being used for deciding the distribution of funds depend on subjective judgments. Age, however, is objective and therefore negates the need for value judgments. Justice and fairness, it is sometimes suggested, require that finite resources should be directed at young people, who have not had a chance to live their lives, rather than at elderly people, who have already lived most of theirs. The adoption of ageist policies, however, may not result in the implied savings unless care is also withdrawn. Furthermore, ageist policies, which deny elderly people treatment on the sole grounds of their age, age both unfair and discriminatory and should therefore be resisted.
Guidelines for carers of confused clients
- Author:
- KENT Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 4(1), February 1995, pp.37-38.
Many carers are under the misapprehension that all confused people are suffering from dementia. Looks at different causes of confusion and identifies two main types of dementia.
Elder abuse in France
- Author:
- OGG Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 2(3), 1995, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
In France many health and social care practitioners are becoming aware that despite considerable economic resources directed towards health and social care provision for old age, there is a widening gap between those who receive an adequate or more than adequate level of services and those who are excluded. For those older people faced with disability or ill health, home and family will be their main source of support. A growth in unregulated private home-care by individuals and agencies means that this sector mostly consists of untrained and unqualified staff with no support. The possibility of abuse and exploitation in such circumstances therefore remains open. This article investigates elder abuse in France and ways in which French health, social and legal services operate in promoting the welfare of older people.
Elder abuse in Spain
- Authors:
- OCHOTORENA Joaquin de Paul, ZUGASTI Jose Luis Larrion
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 2(3), 1995, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
For political reasons Spain has been isolated from the rest of Europe for a number of years. This has resulted in slow progress of both welfare and the means to support social protection. It was not until the middle of the 1980s that Spain began to address subjects in relation to family violence. The article outlines how interest in, resources for, and research related to, elder abuse evolved in Spain.
Elder abuse in Europe
- Authors:
- BIGGS Simon, KINGSTON Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 2(3), 1995, pp.1-2.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
Elder abuse is becoming a matter of increasing concern in Europe. The authors introduce this special edition on the subject.
'Interviewing' confused older people
- Author:
- McISAAC Sam
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 5(4), December 1995, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
For a researcher, interviewing 'confused' old people is often seen as the 'ultimate challenge'. Presents some guidelines for those wishing to interview, and pursue research with confused older people.
Implementing community care: is there really more choice?
- Author:
- LEECE Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 5(2), June 1995, pp.2-5.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Details findings from a study in 1994, undertaken for an MA in Gerontology at Keele, which looked at the experiences of the reforms, for a group of people in a county in the North West of England. It discusses the issues involved in achieving more choice for older people and concludes that in the county studied, client choice appears not to have increased, and in some areas of provision choice has actually decreased.
What do elderly people really think of their lot?
- Authors:
- COLWELL John, CULKIN Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 4(2), May 1995, pp.5-16.
Qualitative research was undertaken on behalf of a Locality Planning Group (representing Hertfordshire County Council, East Hertfordshire District Council, Health, and other statuary and voluntary organisations, with the aim of providing data for a draft paper on planning local community needs for older people. Describes how older people feel about their lives.