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Information about residential care: the underlying issues
- Author:
- STEELE Jane
- Publisher:
- Policy Studies Institute
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 28p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the nature of the information which is needed when people make the transition to or from residential care and at the role of information in Social Services Departments, information needs of clients in general and of those.
Choosing a home
- Author:
- SHAW B.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.1.88, 1988, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Offers a personal view of the factors social workers should be able to advise clients on when discussing potential private homes.
Consumer conundrums
- Author:
- LAMONT L.
- Journal article citation:
- Residential and Day Care Weekly, 6.5.88, 1988, pp.12-13.
Choosing a private old people's home for a relative.
Thinking about ...: choice and welfare in the UK care homes market
- Author:
- GHK
- Publisher:
- GHK
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Enabling consumer choice is a key component of many policy developments and public service reforms. This paper explores choice in the UK care homes market and the implications for consumer policy. It reports on research and analysis undertaken for the Office of Fair Trading on the impacts of an earlier market study on the care homes market. The research concluded that there have been improvements in the provision of information to consumers, but that continued vigilance is needed to ensure that the market does work for care home residents. It also identified reasons why the model of an informed consumer able to exercise choice and drive improved outcomes, particularly in relation to price and quality, is not always applicable for the care homes market: consumers are not always aware they have a choice, how information and choice is framed can undermine effective decision-making by hindering like-for-like comparisons, and prospective care home residents may not have the capability to make effective choices. The research found that care home selection is often constrained by factors such as lack of time, location issues, and availability of support. Although a short term stay at a care home for respite care can be used to test quality and services, it was found that care home choice is for many a one-time decision and switching between homes is rare, thus limiting the impact of consumer switching on the market. The paper reports that it is important that policy makers recognise the limited ability of many older people to exercise choice in the care homes market, because of rising demand for care home places, increasingly from consumers who need to arrange their own place, and because people moving into care homes will tend to be older and frailer.
Hybrid inclusion - the new consumerism of Danish welfare services
- Author:
- HOJLUND Holger
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 19(5), December 2009, pp.421-431.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article focuses on the provision of care for older people in Denmark where recent fundamental changes to welfare structures has meant decision making has become more consumer orientated and both private enterprises and non-profit organisations have been invited to tender for the delivery of welfare services. This author uses a systems approach in which the three decision making systems of organisations, as autopoietic systems of decision making, persons, who individually wear roles in the realm of communication and the concepts of inclusion and exclusion, where persons are approached inside some communicative systems while at the same time being outside others are equally considered. Rather than a simple transition from traditional welfare models to markets models, the author sees the inclusion of citizens in decision making has resulted in hybridisation, with different rationalities brought together with purpose, rather than unhappily as a forced marriage. Network approaches to welfare in general and care of older people specifically, systems for needs assessments, home visits and choosing providers are discussed
Admission to residential care: social workers and the private sector in Suffolk
- Authors:
- PHILLIPS Judith, DAVIES Martin
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Analyses the role of the person who is acting on behalf of an elderly person requiring residential care in choosing between private or local authority care.
A mature policy on choice
- Author:
- RANKIN Jennifer
- Publisher:
- Institute for Public Policy Research
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 28p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Argues that giving older people more choice and control over care services could bring real improvements to people’s quality of life and challenge stereotypes about ageing provided the emphasis on promoting health and wellbeing for all older people is not lost.
High and dry
- Author:
- HIRST Judy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.11.99, 1999, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how short-termist financial decision threaten many older people's care homes.
A moving story
- Author:
- OGDEN Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 20.2.92, 1992, p.12.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Norfolk SSD's plans to close five of its homes for elderly people in order to furnish funds to improve their remaining homes is similar to the situation in many authorities, where closure or transfer to the private or voluntary sector is taking place. Residents do not have security of tenure and their objections to closure or transfer do not figure prominently in the decision making process.
The effect of financial incentives and access to services on self-funded admissions to long-term care
- Authors:
- NETTEN Ann, DARTON Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 37(5), October 2003, pp.483-497.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
With the growth in the numbers and proportion of older people in the population the funding and incentive structures around long-term care are of international concern. A study of the circumstances of self-funded admissions to care homes allowed the comparison of self-funders with publicly funded admissions to care homes in the UK, the influences on self-funders in their decision to move into a care home and resources on which they were able to draw. These findings contribute to our understanding of the impact of current policy on self-funders and our thinking about the way that future policy and practice changes could improve the way we use society's resources in the provision of long-term care.