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Dartington review on the future of adult social care: what can England learn from the experiences of other countries?
- Author:
- GLENDINNING Caroline
- Publisher:
- Research in Practice for Adults
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 24p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Dartington
This paper examines the potential future funding and delivery of adult social care by investigating the experiences of other advanced welfare states, including Denmark, Netherlands and Japan. In 2008 the English Government announced consultation on the future funding and delivery of care and support for disabled adults and older people. A Green Paper was published which suggested a number of potentially radical changes to adult social care and a further period of consultation was announced. However, these debates are also much longer standing. Despite projections of demographic change, particularly future population ageing, this on-going consultation suggests that politically acceptable and economically sustainable solutions are hard to find. If central government becomes responsible for deciding on the levels of resources allocated to individual service users, then it would be unfair to expect local authorities to contribute resources from local council tax – central government would become responsible for raising all the resources for social care, from taxation and insurance mechanisms; a move entirely consistent with reform elsewhere in the world.
Choice: what, when and why? Exploring the importance of choice to disabled people
- Authors:
- RABIEE Parvaneh, GLENDINNING Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 25(7), December 2010, pp.827-839.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper reports evidence from an ongoing qualitative longitudinal study into the realities of exercising choice about support and related services as experienced by disabled and older people and their families. Findings are reported from the first round of interviews, conducted in 2007-08, with 27 young people (aged 13-21) with degenerative/progressive conditions and 34 of their parents, 30 adults and older people with fluctuating support needs, and 20 adults and older people who had recently experienced the sudden onset of a disabling condition. There was considerable diversity among each of these groups in terms of gender, ethnicity and household composition. Key findings are discussed under the headings of healthcare, equipment, housing and adaptations, education/training, social care, employment, and leisure and transport. Almost all respondents felt that having choice was important, however, this is only meaningful if the choices are ‘real’. The choices considered to be important and the way choice was prioritised was shaped by the respondents age and the nature and severity of their condition and also by previous experience of services, future expectations, the availability of information, individual preferences, family responsibilities and the role of others providing support. The importance of learning over time and how this can shape experiences of choice making was also highlighted. Implications of the findings for policy and practice are discussed.