The author puts the case for offering older people more choice via individualised budgets, together with an expansion of low level preventive health services.
The author puts the case for offering older people more choice via individualised budgets, together with an expansion of low level preventive health services.
Subject terms:
older people, prevention, direct payments, health care;
Argues that giving older people more choice and control over care services could bring real improvements to people’s quality of life and challenge stereotypes about ageing provided the emphasis on promoting health and wellbeing for all older people is not lost.
Argues that giving older people more choice and control over care services could bring real improvements to people’s quality of life and challenge stereotypes about ageing provided the emphasis on promoting health and wellbeing for all older people is not lost.
Subject terms:
older people, private sector, quality of life, social care provision, stereotyped attitudes, ageing, choice, decision making, health needs;