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Ageism and age discrimination in secondary health care in the United Kingdom: a review from the literature
- Author:
- LIEVESLEY Nat
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 73p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Department of Health has commissioned this review of evidence of ageism and age discrimination in secondary health care in the United Kingdom in the context of the European Commission Draft Directive (July 2008) - COM (2008) 426 and the introduction in the UK parliament, in April 2009, of the Equality Bill and related secondary legislation that will outlaw age discrimination in the provision of goods and services. Topics include: ageist attitudes in healthcare; hospital care; discrimination in the treatment of particular conditions: cancer, cardiology, transient ischaemic attack and stroke, diabetes, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, Parkinson's disease; clinical trials; NICE guidelines and the use of QALYS. This is one of four reviews of ageism and age discrimination in health and social care.
A patient's experience of an NHS hospital: complaint and outcomes
- Author:
- WENGER G. Clare
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 9(2), June 2008, pp.4-11.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
The author presents a personal account of her experiences of six days in an NHS hospital in Wales. The article details the authors complaints and actions and comments made following the complaints.
Who cares wins: improving the outcome for older people admitted to the general hospital: guidelines for the development of liaison mental health services for older people
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS. Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
This report draws attention to the neglected clinical problem of mental disorder affecting older people admitted to general hospitals and calls for the development of specialist liaison mental health services for older people. It takes account of the best level of evidence where it applies to older people. Older people occupy two-thirds of NHS beds and 60% of older people admitted to general hospital will have or develop a mental disorder. This mental disorder will predict a poor outcome for the older person and the service. The present delivery of mental health services for older people in general hospitals is by the process of consultation. The superior method of multidisciplinary liaison is established for working age adults as a developed speciality. This approach should be established for older people and a failure to do so represents an ageist policy. Better management of these disorders improves outcome and this has major implications for the care of older people, the efficiency of acute hospitals and the utilisation of health and social care resources.
Acute hospitals and older people in Australia
- Author:
- McCORMACK John
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 22(5), September 2002, pp.637-646.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The Australian health care system is frequently portrayed as being in crisis, with reference to either large financial burdens in the form of hospital deficits, or declining service levels. Older people, characterised as a homogeneous category, are repeatedly identified as a major contributor to the crisis, by unnecessarily occupying acute beds while they await a vacancy in a residential facility. Several enquiries and hospital taskforce management groups have been set up to tackle the problem. This article reviews their findings and strategic recommendations, particularly as they relate to older people. Short-term policy responses are being developed which specifically target older people for early discharge and alternative levels of care, and which, while claiming positive intentions, may introduce new forms of age discrimination into the health system.
The unsound barrier
- Author:
- SEYMOUR Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 20.5.98, 1998, pp.56-58.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Rehabilitation programmes for older patients have a positive role to play and are cost-effective. The author argues that ageism in the NHS has led to a failure to exploit its potential.
The age old story
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.6.02, 2002, pp.30-32.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Care home closures, underfunded local authority provision and growing concerns over private pensions are making old age a time of hardship and worry. The author examines the potential for improving this state of affairs.