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Consumerism versus empowerment: a principal approach to the involvement of older service users
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, WALKER Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 24(4), October 1996, pp.375-393.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Critically evaluates the particular approach to user involvement and user empowerment adopted by the British government, which it argues is overly shallow. The article use the term 'consumerism' to convey the market analogy underpinning the government's policy and contrast this with genuine empowerment. The article also contains an outline of the eight key principles according to which the empowerment of service users could be realised. Finally, a practical example is used to show how to achieve the empowerment of frail older people.
Age or disability? Age-based disparities in service provision for older people with intellectual disabilities in Great Britain
- Authors:
- WALKER Alan, WALKER Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 23(1), March 1998, pp.25-39.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article concentrates on the role of service providers in prescribing artificial limits to the potential of older people with intellectual disabilities. Argues that the key factor in this social creation of dependency is the age discriminatory attitudes held by some service providers and which distinguish between the different British service cultures in provision for older people and those for people with an intellectual disability. Thus the behaviour of care staff and the assumptions implicit in social policies can result in practices which reinforce dependency rather than empowerment.