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Predicting transitions in the use of informal and professional care by older adults
- Authors:
- GEERLINGS Sandra, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 25(1), January 2005, pp.111-130.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
To prepare the care system for a rising population of older people it is important to understand what factors predict the use of care. This paper reports a study of transitions in use of informal and professional care using Andersen-Newman models of the predictive predisposing, enabling and need factors. It draws on Longitudinal Ageing Study Amsterdam data on care use and contextual factors. Data were collected at 3-yearly intervals from a random sex- and age-stratified population-based sample of adults aged 55-85. In summary, findings for those who initially did not receive care were that almost one-third received some kind 3 years later, most provided by informal carers. Need factors were important predictors of most transitions, and predisposing and enabling factors, such as age, partner status and income also played a role. On the relationship between informal and professional care, evidence was found for both 'compensatory processes (informal substitutes for professional care) and 'bridging processes' (informal care facilitates professional care). In view of the increasing discrepancy between the demand for professional care and supply, the significant impact of predisposing and enabling factors offers opportunities for intervention.
Case finding for care management for elderly people: a study of existing information sources
- Authors:
- ROBERTSON Alex, CURRIE Colin, BRAND Eileen
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Scottish Office. Central Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 40p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Research report looking at the possibility of using health assessments, which GP's have been required to compile since 1990 for frail elderly people, as data for indications of need in care management.
Improving care packages and outcomes of older people
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.05.08, 2008, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Outcomes-focused services should aim to achieve the goals, aspirations or priorities of people who use care services. This article discusses the barriers that prevent care managers from providing outcomes-focused packages for older people and how they can be improved.
Good practice identified by research: II:Organisational and professional responses
- Authors:
- WARBURTON Raymond W., CHALLIS David J.
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 2(4), June 1996, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The second of two articles describing research findings which point the way to better practice. This article focuses on the organisational and professional responses to the needs of older people, and how these research findings can help to improve these responses in context of assessment and care management.
Care of older people: a comparison of systems in North America, Europe and Japan
- Authors:
- CARPENTER Iain, et al, (eds)
- Publisher:
- Farrand
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 225p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Comparative analyses of care systems and policies for older people: in North America, European countries, and Japan. The book centres on assessment needs and outcomes.
Combining the role of social worker with that of care organiser
- Author:
- THOMPSON Gretta
- Journal article citation:
- Irish Social Worker, 20(1/2), Summer 2002, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Irish Association of Social Workers
Describes the service offered by the Home First project based in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin and discusses balancing the role of the care organiser and social worker in responding to the needs of older people.
Self-talk versus needs-talk: an exploration of the priorities of household older people
- Authors:
- BALDOCK John, HADLOW Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 3(1), March 2002, pp.42-48.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
A complex balancing act
- Author:
- ANSWER Gaynor
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 5(1), January 1997, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Describes how a person-centred care management approach aimed to meet one client's individual needs, as well as those of her carers.
Must something be done?
- Author:
- MACKIE Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 5(1), January 1997, pp.21-22.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Care management should be person-centred, but often it is driven by the needs and anxieties of others. The author recommends that emphasising client well-being balances these worries and helps to focus the care plan from a client-centred perspective.
Improving equity and efficiency in British community care
- Authors:
- DAVIES Bleddyn, KNAPP Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 28(3), September 1994, pp.263-285.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The reform of community and long-term care has been an important theme of policy development around the world during the last decade. British community care is a particularly interesting and impressive example of changes which have parallels in other countries. They include: achieving greater flexibility in the response to the needs and wishes of users and carers; containing costs increases and achieving greater cost-effectiveness; consolidation of structures; competition, variety and choice in a mixed economy; care management and assessment; clarity in targeting; improvement of mechanisms for orchestrating the system. Reviews the evidence on equity and efficiency in British community care: resources, needs and outcomes, and, in particular, targeting and the production of welfare.