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Access-ability: making technology more usable by people with disabilities
- Author:
- GILL John
- Publisher:
- Royal National Institute for the Blind
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication provides an overview of guidelines that are now available on the Internet to help designers, engineers and technicians solve the problems of making the technology in our everyday lives accessible and easier to use by elderly people and people with disabilities. It is the experience of many who are neither elderly or disabled, that the technology in our everyday lives is both complex and difficult to deal with. From video recorder and television controls to mobile phones, ticket selling machines, screen interfaces and e-mail systems. Almost nothing is simple. Most devices are complicated and off-putting. People with disabilities, such as low vision or poor manual dexterity, have long had to deal with devices that have not been designed with their needs in mind. There is now growing concern that the lack of design foresight is creating greater social exclusion.
Retail therapy
- Author:
- BARTLETT Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.1.04, 2004, p.40.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the work of Stockport's Wellcheck project which was set up as a response to the changes in eligibility criteria for social services support. It offers people access to low level services (including shopping services), provides information about the services available and helps older people access them. The service was winner of the older people's category in the Community Care Awards.
Getting started with telecare: South East region project: final report
- Author:
- THORPE Belinda
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Change Agent Team has recently highlighted the problems, Particularly facing Acute Hospitals in the South East Region, particularly with their ability to control waiting lists and the growing problem with delayed discharges. In order to begin to tackle this problem the Change Agent Team in partnership with the National Integrated Community Equipment Service (ICES) Team (Ref 1) funded a short project between September 03 and March 04. The project was to evaluate the benefits of using telecare to promote safety and independence, thereby reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and help to speed up hospital discharges A project manager was appointed to work with three designated control sites within the SE Region, to raise the profile of telecare and to support the evidence already inexistence of the benefits of telecare to help improve bed capacity. Three projects were to be set up and if possible evaluated during the timescale agreed. of staff, choice of telecare sensors and monitors, referral criteria ,response systems and mechanisms for evaluation were addressed.
Direct payments, independent living and mental health: an evaluation: executive summary
- Author:
- HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ADVISORY SERVICE
- Publisher:
- Health and Social Care Advisory Service
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 3p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Community Care (Direct Payments) Act came into force in April 1997, and from April 2003, Local Authorities have been required to make direct payments to people who are assessed as eligible to receive them and want them, including people in contact with mental health services. However, most have not yet given serious consideration to the implementation of direct payments in mental health and the number of people with mental health needs who have taken up direct payments has remained low in comparison with other groups. The purpose of the National Pilot was to promote independent living through the increased take up of direct payments in mental health. It included five key components: the recruitment of Site Co-ordinators from within local service user networks; the setting up of Steering Groups to oversee the progress of the pilot; the organisation of All Sites Days at six monthly intervals to enable representatives from participating sites to discuss progress and share ideas about implementation;and the setting up of an e-mail discussion group and newsletter.
Direct payments, independent living and mental health: an evaluation
- Authors:
- SPANDLER Helen, VICK Nicola
- Publisher:
- Health and Social Care Advisory Service
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 106p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Community Care (Direct Payments) Act came into force in April 1997, and from April 2003, Local Authorities have been required to make direct payments to people who are assessed as eligible to receive them and want them, including people in contact with mental health services. However, most have not yet given serious consideration to the implementation of direct payments in mental health and the number of people with mental health needs who have taken up direct payments has remained low in comparison with other groups. The purpose of the National Pilot was to promote independent living through the increased take up of direct payments in mental health. It included five key components: the recruitment of Site Co-ordinators from within local service user networks; the setting up of Steering Groups to oversee the progress of the pilot; the organisation of All Sites Days at six monthly intervals to enable representatives from participating sites to discuss progress and share ideas about implementation; and the setting up of an e-mail discussion group and newsletter.
Caring but not coping
- Author:
- SALE Anabel Unity
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.4.04, 2004, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses cases of carers harming or killing the older people they care for. Highlights the importance of support services for carers.
Out of sight out of mind
- Authors:
- SHERRATT Chris, YOUNGER-ROSS Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.4.04, 2004, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Intermediate care helps many people stay in their own home and frees up hospital beds, yet many people with dementia are often excluded from these services. Looks at how to provide intermediate care services for older people with dementia, and what can go wrong.
Taking the money
- Author:
- LEECE Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 8(1), March 2004, pp.36-39.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Compares systems of direct payments in the UK with other countries. Explores the problems with the UK system and their potential solutions.
The influence of rural location on utilization of formal home care: the role of Medicaid
- Authors:
- McAULEY William J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 44(5), October 2004, pp.655-664.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This research examines the impact of rural–urban residence on formal home-care utilization among older people and determines whether and how Medicaid coverage influences the association between rural–urban location and risk of formal home-care use. The authors combined data from the 1998 consolidated file of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component with data from the Area Resource File to generate the analytical data set. They established two measures of formal home-care utilization: home care reimbursed through any source, and Medicare-reimbursed home health care. Our measures of rural–urban residence included metropolitan counties, nonmetropolitan counties having towns of at least 10,000 people, and nonmetropolitan counties with no towns of 10,000 people. The authors used logistic regression analyses to examine main effects and interaction effects of Medicaid coverage and residence on the two types of formal home care under controls for person-level characteristics and state fixed effects. The unadjusted logistic analyses demonstrate that older people who reside in the most rural counties (nonmetropolitan counties having no town of 10,000) are significantly more likely than metropolitan residents to use any formal home care and Medicare home health care. The fully adjusted logistic analysis results point to an interplay between residential status and Medicaid coverage with regard to formal home-care use. In comparison with metropolitan residents covered by Medicaid, the adjusted relative risk of any formal home-care use is significantly higher for Medicaid enrollees residing in nonmetropolitan counties having no town of 10,000 people. Use of Medicare home health care is significantly greater for residents of the most rural counties, irrespective of their Medicaid coverage, as well as Medicaid-covered residents of nonmetropolitan counties having a town of at least 10,000 people. In nonmetropolitan areas, Medicaid may be an important mechanism for linking older individuals with formal home care, especially Medicare home health care, and with the services that generate formal home care. Formal home care, including Medicare home health care, may substitute for less available forms of care in the most rural of nonmetropolitan areas. Therefore, policies that limit access to formal home care could lead to increased service-related vulnerabilities among older rural residents.
Care services inquiry interim report: concerns about care for older Londoners
- Author:
- ROBINSON Janice
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
There is increasing public concern about the availability, quality and appropriateness of care services for London’s diverse older population. Is the ‘care market’ working for older people in London, and will there be enough care services of the right quality for them in the future? In February 2004, the King’s Fund launched its Care Services Inquiry to investigate these questions, led by an independent committee made up of people with experience and expertise in the health, housing and social care of older people. This interim report sets out early findings from the opinions expressed and information submitted to the inquiry between March and September 2004.