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Money management and elderly people with dementia
- Authors:
- LANGAN Joan, MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 3(3), September 1994, pp.33-42.
Elderly people with dementia pose complex issues around the management of their financial affairs. This article looks at the law relating to the handling of other people's money in England and Wales, and draws out the policy and practice implications for those working with elderly people.
Money matters in later life: financial management and elderly people in Kirklees
- Authors:
- LANGAN Joan, MEANS Robin
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 26p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Looks at issues around the management of the personal finances of older people with dementia.
Safe as houses? Ageing in place and vulnerable older people in the UK
- Author:
- MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 41(1), February 2007, pp.65-85.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The UK is very similar to many other European, North American and Australasian countries in its emphasis on ‘ageing in place’. This article does not seek to challenge the importance of this for most older people but rather draws out the challenges and issues raised by older people who are vulnerable or in vulnerable housing situations. This is illustrated through drawing upon three separate studies which are on older homelessness, older people in the private rented sector and owner-occupiers with dementia. The article concludes by arguing the need to improve the mainstream housing circumstances of older people on low incomes; the need to invest in a much wider range of specialist support and advice services; and the need to develop a positive view of a wide range of housing with care options in later life.
Social work and older people with dementia: meeting their housing needs
- Authors:
- MEANS Robin, MORBEY Hazel, McCLATCHEY Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 14(3), 2002, pp.5-14.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the potential contribution of both home improvement agencies (HIAs) and assistive technology to social work with older people with dementia. Argues that social workers have much to gain through working closely with specialist housing agencies and that this is most likely to happen if staff map availability of such support in their locality.
Handling other people's money
- Author:
- MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 2(4), June 1996, pp.25-28.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Charging elderly people for community care services is bringing increasing complexities and anxieties for care managers. This article describes the findings of a recent survey and gives a guide to the legal and administrative framework of handling other people's money.
Charging and quasi-markets in community care: implications for elderly people with dementia
- Authors:
- MEANS Robin, LANGAN Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 30(3), September 1996, pp.244-262.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Social services authorities in the UK are increasingly involved in charging and fee collection activities with clients in receipt of community care services. Explores the implications of these developments for elderly people with dementia. Relates a critique of existing legal and administrative options for handling other people's money to the failure of charging and fee collection systems which have developed as a result of the community care reforms to address the particular needs of elderly people with dementia. A case study of policies in one local authority is outlined and this is followed by the presentation of the views of field level professionals who were interviewed in focus groups. The final section of the article considers the implications of a move to quasi-markets in social care for elderly people with dementia, particularly in terms of their vulnerability to financial exploitation.
Financial management and elderly people with dementia in the U.K.: as much a question of confusion as abuse?
- Authors:
- LANGAN Joan, MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 16(3), May 1996, pp.287-314.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Looks at a range of issues relating to financial management and elderly people with dementia. Discusses the law relating to personal finances for those who lack capacity, stressing the laws complexity and the gaps in present coverage. The article goes on to outline findings from research carried out within a social services authority in the north of England.
Personal finances, elderly people with dementia and the new community care
- Authors:
- LANGAN Joan, MEANS Robin
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Association
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 55p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Profiles the law relating to the handling of other people's money and goes on to identify how local authorities assess older people with dementia for fees and charges for residential care, nursing home care and domiciliary services. Also considers how welfare professionals deal with issues of day to day money handling when in the homes of older people with dementia. Concludes by looking at variations in local authority policy and practice in terms of both their willingness to formally take over responsibility for a client's financial affairs when there is no one else to do so, and their approach to confronting financial abuse through elder abuse strategies.