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Inspection of care management for older people living in Gwynedd: March 1999
- Author:
- WALES. Social Services Inspectorate for Wales
- Publisher:
- WALES. Social Services Inspectorate for Wales
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 45p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
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Inspection of the care management of services for older people in Newport County Borough: February 1999
- Author:
- WALES. Social Services Inspectorate for Wales
- Publisher:
- WALES. Social Services Inspectorate for Wales
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
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Inspection of care management services for older people living in Monmouthshire: inspected June 1999
- Author:
- WALES. Social Services Inspectorate for Wales
- Publisher:
- WALES. Social Services Inspectorate for Wales
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Inspection of care management for older people in the county of Flintshire; inspected April 1999
- Author:
- WALES. Social Services Inspectorate for Wales
- Publisher:
- WALES. Social Services Inspectorate for Wales
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 45p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Planning for dementia care in Ireland: conference proceedings
- Editors:
- MURPHY Edel, O'SHEA Eamon, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- National Council on Ageing and Older People
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 76p.
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
With the numbers of dementia suffers projected to increase by over 25 per cent in the coming decade, a range of issues are critical to the successful implementation of the Action Plan for Dementia, These issues were discussed at a Council conference on planning for dementia care in Ireland. The proceedings are an important record of the conference participants concern to identify the issues, which must be addressed if significant improvements in the quality of life of people with dementia in Ireland are to be achieved in the years ahead. A strong feeling among conference participants was that care management could be an effective integrating mechanism in the care of people with dementia, because of its potential to bring together the various elements of primary and secondary care services.
People with preserved rights: a socially excluded minority
- Author:
- LAING William
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation,|York Publishing Services
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This study assesses different policy options to address the anomalous position of care homes residents with ‘preserved rights’. By August 1999, there were still some 64,000 care home residents whose only source of state funding was ‘preserved rights’ Income Support. The main brunt of financial disadvantage is borne by older claimants and their families in the more affluent parts of the country, where Income Support limits are insufficient to meet typical market fee rates. In addition, claimants of all ages are excluded from non-financial support and advocacy offered by social services departments under the community care reforms, which have passed preserved rights residents by. The author concludes that the best option is to abolish the preserved rights regime and transfer funding and care management for claimants to local authorities. The research shows that the cost to the state of meeting fee shortfalls would be small. The largest impact would be the extra cost to local authorities of purchasing and care management arrangements.
Caring for older people: an assessment of community care in the 1990s
- Authors:
- BAULD Linda, et al
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 428p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Aims to provide the detailed information necessary to understand and evaluate current practice in community care for older people, based on the PSSRU's Evaluating Care for the Elderly Project. Describes the development of community care from the post-war period to the present day. Describes the ECEP project and places its findings in a national context. Summarises the projects findings and reflects on their relevance to policy developments. Subsequent chapters describe the findings in detail with reference to the characteristics of the older people in the study, their carers, issues of care management, consistency in social care, and outcomes for users.
Comparative European module: protection of vulnerable older people
- Authors:
- BRADLEY Greta, PENHALE Bridget
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 2(4), November 2000, pp.17-21.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
For the past four years, the social work department at the University of Hull has been working in partnership with colleagues from Austria, France and Germany to develop a European module on comparative social work. Funded by the EU's SOCRATES programme, this has involved the four European sites developing and adapting a prototype module concerning vulnerable older people to fit with their own programme requirements. This paper describes what the process has revealed.
Involving people who have dementia in the evaluation of services: a review
- Authors:
- CHESTON Rik, BENDER Mike, BYATT Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 9(5), October 2000, pp.471-479.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Government policy and good practice dictate that health and other care services should routinely involve service users in the evaluation of the services that they receive. While the carers of people with dementia have been involved in this process relatively often, it has been much rarer for people with dementia themselves to be involved. This article reviews five methods of gathering the experiences of people with dementia as those experiences relate to the services that they receive: questionnaires and structured interviews; semi-structured interviews; observation; advocacy; and focus groups. A number of ethical issues are highlighted including: consent; the capacity to make decisions; confidentiality and empowerment.
Preferences for surrogate decision makers, informal communication, and advance directives among community-dwelling elders: results from a national study
- Author:
- HOPP Faith P.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 40(4), August 2000, pp.449-457.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This American study, drawing on a national representative sample of adults aged 70 and older, addresses the need for greater information on advance care planning among older adults. The results suggest the need to develop interventions aimed at strengthening knowledge and understanding of advance directives, particularly for African Americans and persons with lower levels of educational attainment. They further suggest the need for more research on the factors related to informal communication between older adults and their family members on issues related to advance care planning.