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Better Health in Old Age: report from Professor Ian Philp, National Director for Older People's Health to Secretary of State for Health
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report highlights progress since 2001 under the National Service Framework for Older People and sets out a vision for the future. The National Service Framework (NSF) for Older People promotes independence and well-being for older people and support for them to live at home or in community settings as far as possible. The emphasis in the NSF has been right across the whole health and social care system rather than being narrowly focused on just one or two conditions. This is an ambitious agenda but a crucial one.
Partnerships for older people projects: 'developing services to engage, enable and empower older people'
- Author:
- KAUR Rajbant
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 10(3), September 2006, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author explains the Partnership for Older People Projects, which was launched by the Department of Health in March 2004. The article looks at what the programme hopes to achieve, its underlying philosophy and the impact it will have on future services for older people. The Projects aim to deliver improved outcomes for local older people and demonstrate improvements in the following key areas: providing more low-level community support; reducing avoidable, emergency admissions; and supporting older people to live at home or in supported housing.
Direct support: direct payments and older people
- Author:
- LEECE Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 11(3), September 2001, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Draws together recent research to consider issues around direct payments that are important to older people. Looks briefly at the background to direct payments, how they work, and whether existing schemes are being made available to older people and if these are appropriate to their needs.
Rehabilitation: an old concept in a new policy context
- Author:
- ROBINSON Janice
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 6(3), June 1998, pp.103-106.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Discusses how inadequate opportunities for rehabilitation have resulted in a distorted system of care and public disquiet about the impact on vulnerable older people and their families. Investment in rehabilitation offers a way out of a vicious circle of increasing demands for care and escalating expenditure. Argues that the system of health and social care needs to be re-shaped to enable older people to regain the independence so often impaired after illness or injury. Health and local authorities face a daunting challenge, but suggests they will make progress if they follow the five-point plan in this article.
The reliability and validity of the safety assessment of function and the environment for rehabilitation (SAFER Tool)
- Authors:
- LETTS Lori, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 61(3), March 1998, pp.127-132.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article presents the results of a study undertaken to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Safety Assessment of Function and the Environment for Rehabilitation. The instrument was developed by occupational therapists to evaluate people abilities to manage safely within their home environments. The Safety Assessment of Function and the Environment for Rehabilitation Tool is described, followed by a brief review of the psychometric properties examined in this study.
Perceived risks to independent living: the views of older community-dwelling adults
- Authors:
- MACK Ruthanna, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 37(6), 1998, pp.729-736.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Gather the perceptions of older, community-dwelling adults about factors they considered essential for them to remain living within the community. In-depth interviews were conducted with 103 men and women over the age of 65 years who were living in their own home or apartment, within an urban centre in the United States of America. Factors such as finances, health, family support, a sense of identify, and a feeling of independence were perceived by older adults to contribute to their ability to remain living in the community. Importantly, older adults viewed threats to this continued independent living as both (a) factors connected to losses and maintenance of capability, but also (b) as impediments to further growth of their personal well-being.
Please ring for service
- Authors:
- THORNTON Patricia, MOUNTAIN Gail
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.6.92, 1992, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes research which shows that new approaches to community alarm systems can be used as a means of helping elderly people to live independently.
Technology and the elderly: the role of technology in prolonging the independence of the elderly in the community care context
- Authors:
- CULLEN K., MORAN R
- Publisher:
- Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 135p.
- Place of publication:
- Luxembourg
Examines the needs of older people living in the community and explores the role of technology in meeting these needs. Uses a constructive technology assessment approach in assessing the potential of technologies as a support for independence.
Living dangerously: risk taking, safety and older people
- Author:
- WYNNE-HARLEY Deirdre
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 60p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Study aimed at discovering the extent to which older people consciously accept or incorporate risk into their daily lives, with the majority of those interviewed living independently. Contains recommendations and action points directed primarily at: those whose concern it is to improve home safety; professionals and policy makers in health and social welfare fields; designers and architects; and older people themselves. Includes a checklist: 'Know your hazards'.
Getting by in the community: lessons from frail elders
- Authors:
- LONG Sharon K., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 17(1), 2005, pp.19-43.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study explores how functionally impaired, elderly persons are able to remain in the community without homeand communitybased care (HCBC) under the Medicaid program. Using HCBC administrative data, Medicare data, and survey data, we find the nonparticipants in the community appear to get by through a combination of reliance on informal care, use of Medicare home care, and going without needed services. Despite their efforts to manage their care in the community, non-participants were significantly more likely than the participants to enter a nursing home during the six months following assessment. While our analysis does not allow us to attribute the higher nursing home entry to the absence of HCBC services with certainty, the finding does raise questions about whether the elements of the HCBC program that discourage participation may save Medicaid dollars in the short-run at the expense of future Medicaid costs from more rapid nursing home entry. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)