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The role of family care-givers for an older person resident in a care home
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 30(5), October 2000, pp.649-661.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
A sample of 61 residents admitted during the preceding three years to 35 independent sector nursing or residential care homes in four local authority areas was interviewed. Five discrete roles for family care-givers in the care homes were described: checking the quality of care, companionship, handling the cared-for person's finances, giving the cared-for person practical help, and assisting the cared-for person with personal care. Although family care-givers described themselves as very satisfied with the care homes as a whole, as many as half were worried about some aspect of care. The research has implications for social workers, care home proprietors and registration and inspection units in encouraging care homes to adopt more 'relative friendly' policies.
Discrimination against self-funding residents in long-term residential care in England
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 23(5), September 2003, pp.603-624.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Reports the findings of research funded by The Nuffield Foundation on older people paying the full cost of their long-term residential or nursing home care in England. The research had three stages; a national postal survey directed at the senior finance officer in social services departments, follow-up telephone interviews with a sample of them, and interviews in five case study areas. Those interviewed included social services staff (including a legal adviser), care home providers, self-funding residents and relatives. These self-funding residents were commonly relatively physically independent on admission to the care home. Despite central government directives that needs assessments should be available regardless of a person's means, it is a common policy to encourage older people in this situation to admit themselves directly to care homes without a needs assessment. Wide variation was found in local authority practice in respect to being prepared to make a contract with a care-home provider for older people able to meet the full costs of care.