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Pretty vacant: vacancy chains and extra care housing: stimulating local housing markets
- Authors:
- DAVIES Ken, CRAIG Louise
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This factsheet considers how the development of extra care housing can have a strategic impact on the better functioning of local housing markets by creating additional mobility within the market. The concept behind this approach is known as ‘vacancy chains’. In this factsheet, the vacancy chain concept is used to offer an insight into the role of extra care accommodation in freeing family homes, and in doing so, increasing flows within the wider housing market and ensuring more appropriate use of under-occupied accommodation. Descriptions are provided of a number of case studies across the country that have been successful in encouraging older households to move out of their current homes and thus releasing family homes back into the housing market. These case studies cover: a scheme commissioned specifically to free housing; a rural development; all rented extra care housing; a large scale development; a private sector development; and an urban development.
Challenges, benefits and weaknesses of intermediate care: results from five UK case study sites
- Authors:
- REGEN Emma, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 16(6), December 2008, pp.629-637.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The authors explore the views of practitioners and managers on the implementation of intermediate care for elderly people across England, including their perceptions of the challenges involved in its implementation, and their assessment of the main benefits and weaknesses of provision. Qualitative data were collected in five case study sites (English primary care trusts) via semi structured interviews (n = 61) and focus group discussions (n = 21) during 2003 to 2004. Interviewees included senior managers, intermediate care service managers, clinicians and health and social care staff involved in the delivery of intermediate care. The data were analysed thematically using an approach based on the 'framework' method. Workforce and funding shortages, poor joint working between health and social care agencies and lack of support/involvement on the part of the medical profession were identified as the main challenges to developing intermediate care. The perceived benefits of intermediate care for service-users included flexibility, patient centeredness and the promotion of independence. The 'home-like' environment in which services were delivered was contrasted favourably with hospitals. Multidisciplinary team working and opportunities for role flexibility were identified as key benefits by staff. Insufficient capacity, problems of access and awareness at the interface between intermediate care and 'mainstream' services combined with poor co-ordination between intermediate care services emerged as the main weaknesses in current provision. Despite reported benefits for service-users and staff, the study indicates that intermediate care does not appear to be achieving its full potential for alleviating pressure within health and social care systems. The strengthening of capacity and workforce, improvements to whole systems working and the promotion of intermediate care among doctors and other referrers were identified as key future priorities.
Worth fighting for: ten stories of ageism
- Author:
- HELP THE AGED
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Thanks to recent legislation, age discrimination in the workplace is high on the agenda. But how does age discrimination impact on other aspects of older people's lives? Research on Age Discrimination (RoAD) talked to older people across the UK about everything from shopping to sexuality and hospitals to hairdressing to find out how others see them – and how they see themselves. Worth Fighting For: ten stories of ageism contains brief case studies that vividly illustrate why age discrimination in goods and services should be outlawed.
The meaning of social participation for daily mobility in later life: an ethnographic case study of a senior project in a Swedish urban neighbourhood
- Author:
- STJERNBORG Vanessa
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing International, 42(3), 2017, pp.374-391.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
This paper presents an ethnographic case study that aims to understand the meaning of social participation in a neighbourhood for daily mobility in later life. In the study, the mobility of the participants of a senior-citizen project was monitored over 18 months. The project was founded as a result of a municipal district’s targeting of social sustainability. The results show that social participation had positive effects on the daily mobility of the participants. The implementation of broad-minded thinking from the municipality and the cooperation of various municipal actors were shown to be essential for the positive outcome of this project. (Publisher abstract)
Housing for care: a response to the post-transitional old-age gap?
- Author:
- MANDIC Srna
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 26(2), 2016, pp.155-167.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article examines the trade-off between owned housing and old-age care in Slovenia where the population has been found outstandingly willing to enter residential care and also consume housing wealth for this purpose. To explain this peculiarity, a case study as a holistic in-depth analysis was conducted, combining multiple sources of quantitative survey data and qualitative interview-based insights and accounting for the institutional context and individual decisions. What was found was a modernised version of the traditional ‘inheritance for care’ exchange, whereby the inheritor partly finances the parent’s residential care. This family-mediated trade-off between old-age care and housing wealth was found to serve as an informal equity-release scheme which in Slovenia helps bridge the post-transitional old-age gap, the syndrome of low pensions, underdeveloped care services and owner-occupied housing un-adapted to seniors. Moreover, it is hypothesised that this structural gap is common to other post-transitional countries. (Publisher abstract)
Researching telecare use using everyday life analysis: introducing the AKTIVE working papers: AKTIVE working paper 1
- Author:
- YEANDLE Sue
- Publisher:
- University of Leeds. Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 14
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
The AKTIVE Working Paper series, of which this paper is an introduction, comprises papers outlining the results of the AKTIVE research project. Focusing on older people living at home with different types of frailty, the project aimed both to enhance understanding of how they (and those supporting them) accessed, engaged with and used the telecare equipment supplied to them, and to explore the consequences for them of doing so. This paper briefly describes the two telecare services studied, in Leeds and Oxfordshire, providing a context in which some of the differences seen in research participants’ experiences and reactions can be understood. It describes the 60 frail older people included in the everyday life analysis (ELA) sample, a key source of information and data for the project, including their personal characteristics, their living situations and family circumstances, their health situations at the start of the study and some of the changes they experienced during the research contact. Finally, it describes the different types and combinations of telecare equipment in place in the ELA households. All papers in the AKTIVE Working Paper series draw on the ELA research findings, and each indicates which AKTIVE research questions it addresses. (Edited publisher abstract)
Getting on: well-being in later life
- Authors:
- McCORMICK James, et al
- Publisher:
- Institute for Public Policy Research
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 60p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report details experience of growing older in both rural and urban locations, reviewing policies in the United Kingdom and international practice. Recent medical research indicates a healthy life expectancy rising faster than was previously thought and the protective and risk factors that mean some old people fare better or worse, respectively, are discussed. The essential elements of well-being in later life are resilience, independence, health, income, wealth, having a role and having time. The authors advise that preparing early by investing time in social networks outside the home and workplace is good practice. Risks to well-being in later life which are becoming more prevalent include increased debt either as unsecured loans or unpaid mortgages and problematic alcohol consumption. Chapters 2 to 4 survey evidence on attitudes to later life and highlight, using case studies, approaches taken to ageing by policy makers in the UK, United States, Japan, China, Ireland, Finland, Norway and New Zealand. In Chapter 5, more detailed exploration of the views of older people living in London, Newcastle and rural North East England was obtained via focus groups in these locations. The final two chapters summarise key themes discussed and conclude with recommendation for policy and practice.
Reflections on Hurricane Katrina by older adults: three case studies in resiliency and survivorship
- Author:
- GREENE Roberta R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 16(4), 2007, pp.57-74.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The case studies are part of a larger study that explored how governmental and non-governmental agencies in Texas provided health and social care support for evacuees from New Orleans. They illustrate the basic concepts of risk and resilience theory, namely: risk; vulnerability; protective factor; buffer; and resilience. The narrative themes of the case studies echo those found in studies of survival strategies in other traumatic contexts: resolving to live; obtaining food and shelter; choosing survival strategies; keeping family ties connecting with the community; and giving testimony. The implications for social work practice are discussed.
Severe health and social care issues among British migrants who retire to Spain
- Authors:
- HARDILL Irene, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 25(5), September 2005, pp.769-783.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article focuses on those members of the British community who have lived in Spain for a considerable time and for whom familial, social and institutional ties with Britain are weak or disrupted. Age Concern España was established by members of the British community to provide information and services on healthcare, benefits and local services in Spain. Four indicative case studies of those requesting assistance and classified as being of ‘serious need’ are presented. They illustrate the ways in which happy and fulfilling lives in Spain were abruptly changed as the person's resources (bodily, economic, social and skills) for independent living diminished, and in which institutions and friendship networks played a key role in supporting life. The paper is the product of collaboration between researchers and practitioners in Spain and the UK, and brings together previous research with new qualitative case studies. Whilst policy-makers, practitioners and gerontologists have an increasing awareness of the needs of older migrants and the challenges they pose for public policy, particularly for health and social care systems in Spain, there have been little sustained analysis and cross-country debate.
Social workers’ impact on policy through regulations: a case study of the U.S. Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program
- Authors:
- BELTRAN Susanny J., MILLER Vivian J., HAMLER Tyrone
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 22(2), 2022, pp.539-555.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Summary: Involvement in the political process in the United States is critical for social work professionals, as social policies dictate funding and programming in social work practice. Yet, there is little to no focus given to the regulation writing process in the social work literature in the United States. This article contributes to the scant body of knowledge that addresses the regulatory process from a social work perspective. A brief overview of the regulation writing process is provided, followed by a case study using the regulations for the U.S. Older Americans Act Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program to illustrate the process. Findings: A total of 85 comments, submitted to the Federal Register docket, were analyzed using content analysis. Findings reveal that comment submissions varied greatly in terms of length, source, and input. Notably, findings indicate low participation from the social work profession. Application: The open comment period of the regulation writing process offers a free, but effortful, window of opportunity for social workers to engage in post-legislative advocacy. There is a need to support the involvement of the social work profession in the regulation writing process, through practice and training enhancements. (Edited publisher abstract)