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It's time to wake the 'sleeping giants' - black and minority ethnic older people within the European Union
- Author:
- SCOTT Helena
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 3(2), May 1994, pp.22-35.
Describes Age Concern Scotland's European-based project 'Ageing in Multicultural Europe' - its aims, networking activities, and a major symposium held in Edinburgh in December 1993.
The numbers game: black and minority ethnic elders and sheltered accommodation
- Author:
- JONES Adrian
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 160p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Report exploring what black and minority ethnic elders in Bradford, London and the West Midlands know about sheltered housing, and what will govern and influence their demand for this type of accommodation in the future. Also covers the opinions and performance of local authorities, black housing associations, and mainstream providers of sheltered accommodation.
Disability in the Bengali community
- Author:
- FITCHES Raheela
- Journal article citation:
- Children UK, 1, Summer 1994, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- National Children's Bureau
In providing services for families from minority ethnic groups it is crucial to understand their cultural diversity and beliefs. Looks at the Bengali community's perceptions of disability.
Reading around: dementia and ethnicity
- Author:
- MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 2(5), September 1994, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Rounds up recent research and publications in the area of ethnicity, ageing and dementia.
Pilot scheme for Asian elders
- Author:
- SUNMONU Yinka
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.7.94, 1994, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Social services are often criticised for not consulting Asian elders on community care. Reports on an innovative project in Hounslow which offers Asian elders the opportunity to gain an understanding of the basic concept of community care and enable them to find out what it has to offer. For example, a course was run to introduce them to social services, domiciliary care, care in the home, residential care, and the notion of carers and carer support. Some Asian elders also visited sheltered accommodation, day centres and residential homes.
Black and ethnic minority women and men in Britain 1994
- Author:
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Equal Opportunities Commission
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 38p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Provides statistics from the 1991 Census on Black and Minority ethnic women and men in Britain. Includes tables on: ethnic composition of the population; geographical distribution; age structure; household characteristics; participation in education; qualification levels; local labour markets; unemployment; and employment.
Leicestershire boost for black elders
- Author:
- PARKE Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- LGIU Equalities News, 21, July 1994, p.10.
Leicestershire County Council serves a multi-cultural area with 11 per cent of the population belonging to Asian and African Caribbean communities. Reports on what the SSD has been doing.
Asian and black elders and community care: a survey of care providers
- Authors:
- WALKER Reg, AHMAD Waqar I. U.
- Journal article citation:
- New Community, 20(4), July 1994, pp.635-646.
- Publisher:
- Community Relations Commission
Reports on a survey of care providers' perspectives on the implications of community care policy for black and Asian elders in Bradford. Argues that while community care in theory offers opportunities for ethnic minorities that pressures on Asian and black carers and the limitations of the ethnic minority voluntary sector must be recognised.
Growing old differently
- Editors:
- BOGARD Gerald, TYLER William
- Publisher:
- Council of Europe
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 278p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Europe wide collection of papers looking at what part education has to play in combating isolation and exclusion from mainstream life of the growing population of older people. Suggests new approaches to education for older people and ageing polices that focus on this issue and on the construction of an active and responsible citizenship for all.
Joint human resource development strategies for community care: training and development for community organisations working with black and racial minority elders; a report to the Wandsworth Joint Training Strategy Group
- Authors:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT BOARD, NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. Training Directorate
- Publisher:
- Local Government Management Board
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- Luton
Joint training strategy plan.