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Maritime Charities Funding Group: accommodation, care and support strategy for older seafarers and their dependents: executive summary
- Author:
- OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY. Institute of Public Care
- Publisher:
- Oxford Brookes University. Institute of Public Care
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Demographic change amongst the seafarer population is neither uniform nor does it follow the national increase. Over the next ten years it is estimated that for the over 60's population the number of ex Royal Navy personnel will fall by 31 % and former fishermen by 15% although the number of ex merchant seamen aged over 60 is projected to rise by 12%. Overall, this will produce a decline in the number of former seafarers aged over 60 from 569,000 to 439,000. Older seafarers, as for all older people, will have an increasingly complex range of support needs. There is recognition that there is going to be an increasing demand for specialist dementia care facilities, as well as general nursing care needed by older seafarers. This report suggests that the Maritime Charities Funding Group adopts as its vision the following four outcomes in order to prioritise and determine future funding: older seafarers are helped to be independent, healthy and happy; older seafarers are able to live in the community and accommodation they want; older seafarers are able to make informed choices about where and how they live; and older seafarers with complex needs are able to receive high quality specialist care.
Strategic housing for older people
- Author:
- OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY. Institute of Public Care
- Publishers:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 32, 38, 11p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
This resource pack brings together briefing papers, tools and resources to help meet the housing needs of an increasingly ageing population. Section A discusses the wider policy context of housing care and support for older people, and how to better understand local demand and need in the market. It contains 3 briefing papers and a set of 6 practical tools and resources to enable commissioners, planners and funders to meet the housing needs and aspirations of older people. Section B looks at planning, designing, developing and managing extra care housing along with a set of 8 practical tools and resources to effectively plan and deliver housing that older people want. Section C provides a list of relevant Housing Learning and Improvement Network publications and other key publication. It is hoped the pack will help in local strategic commissioning, planning and investment decisions and help transform and improve the range of housing choices for older people.