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Day care and outreach in extra care housing
- Author:
- OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY. Institute of Public Care
- Publisher:
- Care Services Improvement Partnership. Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This factsheet explores the national policy context and key issues for commissioners of day services, the benefits of providing such services within an extra care housing scheme both for the scheme's residents and the local communities, and provides descriptions of a number of schemes and the kinds of additional care and support services which they offer.
The shape of future care for older people with mental health needs
- Author:
- OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY. Institute of Public Care
- Publisher:
- Oxford Brookes University. Institute of Public Care
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
A report from the charity Friends of the Elderly, warns that councils in the South East are unprepared for an increase in demand for mental health services for older people. The charity is saying that areas of serious need will be created which will ‘stretch current service provision to the limit and probably beyond’. The report recommends that statutory authorities work in a more integrated way with voluntary and independent providers.