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Older people from South Asia: cross-national sample selection in India, Bangladesh and United Kingdom
- Author:
- BURHOLT Vanessa
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 11(4), December 2001, pp.4-7.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Reports on first stages of a cross-national study which examines the impact of migration of family members on sources of help and support to older members of Gujarati, Punjabi and Sylheti families living in the United Kingdom, India and Bangladesh. Samples of people aged 55 and over were drawn from the UK and Asia. The UK sample was drawn from Gujarati, Punjabi and Sylheti elders in Birmingham via contacts established through local ethnic associations and the use of a 'snowball' technique. Looks at progress to date and discusses problems encountered in sampling the populations.
Policy convergence: restructuring long-term care in Australia and the UK
- Authors:
- GIBSON Diane, MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 29(1), January 2001, pp.43-58.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Australia and the UK have historically had very different systems of long-term care for older people and others. Recent restructuring has led to interesting convergences of those systems, largely, the authors argue. because of the limited set of policy levers available to reformers in both countries.
The World ageing situation: exploring a society for all ages
- Author:
- UNITED NATIONS. Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- Publisher:
- United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 131p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Presents an overview of the many global issues around an ageing population. Contains chapters on: development and the ageing of populations in Africa; ageing rural populations in South East and East Asia; the situation of older people in newly industrialised countries of East Asia; the situation of older women in the Latin Americal region; global ageing and intergenerational equity issue; and rewriting lifemaps.
Outlawing age discrimination: foreign lessons, UK choices
- Authors:
- HORNSTEIN Zmira, ENCEL Sol, GUNDERSON Morley, NEUMARK David
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 96p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
The UK is committed to legislating against age discrimination in employment and, under the EC Directive on Equal Treatment in Employment and Occupation is expected to have legislation in place by December 2003. This study looks at what can be usefully learned from other countries' experiences and analyses the options for the UK. It identifies legislation against age discrimination in thirteen countries and looks in detail at Australia, Canada and the United States where legislation has been in force for some time.
Approaches to improving quality in nursing and residential homes: recent developments in Australia and their relevance to the UK
- Authors:
- BARTLETT Helen, BOLDLY Duncan
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 2(3), September 2001, pp.3-14.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Concerns about quality and standards of care in the nursing and residential home sector have exercised policymakers, managers and practitioners in both Australia and the UK for some years. While Australia is a relatively young country, demographically speaking, it has in place a coherent 'aged care' policy. The UK on the other hand, with its rapidly ageing profile, has only recently made a serious policy commitment to the health and social care agenda for older people. Australia therefore has several years of experience to be shared with the UK when it come to policy and practice of quality improvement. In particular, there are valuable lessons to be learnt from Australia's national outcome standards and monitoring system for care homes, and it's more recent introduction of care homes accreditation system. Apart from identifying any issues associated with the implementation of such approaches to quality improvement, it is important to establish whether they have an impact on the quality of care and life of older residents. As the UK moves to implementing national minimum standards in 2002, lessons from Australia are timely and may help inform best practice and policy in long-term care in the future.
New ideas about old age security: toward sustainable pension systems in the 21st century
- Authors:
- HOLZMANN Robert, STIGLITZ Joseph E
- Publisher:
- World Bank
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 511p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
Policy makers across the globe are struggling to adapt their pension systems to the reality of ageing populations, and tightening budgets. The World Bank is actively engaged in supporting these policy makers, from helping them to identify the economic and demographic challenges facing their countries to highlighting potential policy responses and providing implementation support. This book examines the implementation of the "multipillar" approach advocated by the Bank, focuses on the nature of a mandatory savings pillar and addresses such technical topics as coverage, distributive effects, administrative costs, and annuitisation.
Another Dutch miracle? Explaining Dutch and German pension trajectories
- Author:
- HAVERLAND Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 11(4), November 2001, pp.308-323.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This paper compares old-age pension policy trajectories in the Netherlands and Germany. These two advanced welfare states have developed different financial arrangements despite similarities in policy legacies, political institutions and party systems. Both countries established and extended comprehensive pay-as- you-go financed public pension schemes in the 1950s and 1960s. However, the Netherlands achieved a fully fledged multi-tiered pension system with a strong funded component, while until recently the German system relied almost exclusively on pay-as-you-go financing. The Netherlands has, therefore, a financially more viable and sustainable set of pension arrangements than Germany, at least under the current and foreseeable economic and demographic conditions. The paper reconstructs the pension trajectories in the two countries in order to explore the role of path dependency, political choice and contingency in explaining this divergence. It is argued that divergence is essentially unrelated to different strategic choices or variations in institutional capacities for reform. Instead, divergence is the largely unintended consequence of a series of incremental decisions in combination with contingent events and developments.
The development and evolution of geriatric assessment teams over the past 25 years: a cross-cultural comparison of the US and the UK
- Author:
- DOUGLAS Carolinda
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 15(3), August 2001, pp.267-280.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Presents findings from a literature synthesis and content of the geriatric assessment team literature from the US and the UK between 1974-1999. Eighty-one geriatric assessment teams identified from the literature are analyzed (52 from the US and 29 from the UK) Geriatric assessment team characteristics are examined including team purpose, team setting, treatment link, team orientation, team composition, team size, and the client group targeted. The results show that teams in both the US and UK primarily have testing treatment effectiveness as their stated purpose, have strong treatment links, and are patient-orientated. Significant patients targeted by team. The US teams examined are more likely to operate in inpatient settings, include more disciplines and have more members on the team, and target specific subgroups of older people than those from the UK.
Older people
- Author:
- MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 2001, pp.24-26.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Why explore services and welfare for older people cross-culturally? Research reviewed here demonstrates that in a global society, responses to aging populations are not confined to countries with high numbers or proportions of older people. We have much to learn from other approaches.
Approaching retirement: social divisions, welfare and exclusion
- Author:
- MANN Kirk
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 280p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Tackles issues around income in retirement from a sociological perspective. Contains chapters on: social divisions, exclusion and retirement; two versions of political economy, ease and plenty or immerseration and crisis; consumption, consumers and choice; post work and post structuralism; risk and post traditional welfare; and comparative measures of 'successful retirement', including comparisons with other countries.