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Equality and diversity and older people with high support needs
- Authors:
- BLOOD Imogen, BAMFORD Sally-Marie
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 42p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This review considers the needs and situations of older people with high support needs from different equality groups, and the barriers they commonly face in service provision. It adopts a ‘capability-based’ approach to equality, analysing older people with high support needs from different equality groups and highlighting relevant debates associated to equality and diversity. It summarises from existing evidence the profile, needs and experiences of older people with high support needs, in terms of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion or belief, sexual orientation and poverty. It also highlights key debates related to the equality and diversity of this group and suggests ways in which the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s programme ‘A Better Life’ might contribute to them. The review draws on reports, abstracts, articles and statistics and conversations with 13 experts working across the range of equality strands in policy, research and practice. It also presents a separate annotated list of projects, initiatives, networks and organisations which have particular interests, expertise and activities relating to equality and diversity and older people with high support needs.