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Person-centred approaches and older families
- Authors:
- MAGRILL Dalia, SANDERSON Helen, SHORT Alison
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet highlights good practice in using person-centred approaches with older families. It is aimed at person-centred planning coordinators and facilitators, but is a useful resource for anyone working with older families. The booklet particularly helps to unpick some of the key issues that might impact on the way that person-centred planning approaches are used with older families.
Supporting older families: making a real difference
- Author:
- MAGRILL Dalia
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 107p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Older families are a priority group for support, but it is important that their needs are linked in to the mainstream agendas of services for people with learning disabilities, older people and carers generally. It is important that we make sure that older families have their needs met now, and are supported to remain together for as long as they wish whilst planning for the future with confidence. However, it is equally important that we get things right for older families now so that others who are growing older do not face the same anxieties, uncertainty and fears that so many older family carers have lived with for decades.
Family care of the elderly: social and cultural changes
- Editor:
- KOSBERG Jordan I.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 329p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Newbury Park, CA
Takes a global look at care for older people within the family circle, and compares and contrasts global changes in the last decade.
Work–family lifecourses and later-life health in the United Kingdom
- Authors:
- TOSI Marco, GRUNDY Emily
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 41(6), 2021, pp.1371-1397.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Socio-economic inequalities in physical and mental health persist at older ages and previous studies have shown that partnership and parenthood histories are also associated with differentials in later-life health. These domains of adult life interact, and both may be influenced by earlier life circumstances, indicating a need for a holistic approach to understanding lifecourse influences on health at older ages. In this paper, we identify classes of lifecourse types for a United Kingdom (UK) cohort born 1933–1945 and investigate differences between the latent classes identified in physical and mental health, and changes in health over a five-year follow-up period. Data were drawn from Waves 1–5 (2009–2013) of the nationally representative UK Household Longitudinal Study. Multi-level models were used to analyse associations with summary indicators of physical and mental health measured using the SF-12, and changes in health, controlling for childhood circumstances and taking account of support from family and friends in later life. Lifecourses characterised by lower socio-economic position, early parenthood and large family size were associated with worse physical and mental health in later life, with respondents who had combined a high socio-economic position and two children being the most advantaged. The study indicates that socio-economic disparities in later-life health vary depending on the way in which individuals combine work and family life. (Edited publisher abstract)
Supporting you as an older family carer: a booklet to support older family carers of people with learning disabilities to get the right support now and to plan for emergencies and the long term
- Authors:
- MAGRILL Dalia, PEARCE-NEUDORF Justin
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet has been developed to help older family carers who are caring for people with learning disabilities to think and plan for the future as they get older. It covers: Getting the right support now; Practical support you may find useful; Preparing for emergencies; Preparing for the future. It aims to present different options and present a good starting point to finding solutions. It includes checklists and notes boxes to record information and service needs. It is one of a series of publications to come from the Mutual Caring project, set up to promote good practice and improve service provision for older families caring for people with learning disabilities.
Supporting you and your family as you grow older together: a booklet for people with learning disabilities who live at home with an older family carer
- Authors:
- MAGRILL Dalia, PEARCE-NEUDORF Justin
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A practical booklet for people with learning disabilities who are cared for by an older person in their family. It aims to help the family live together now, and also to think about things that may need to be done in the future. This booklet provides: good questions to ask; things that can help you now and in the future; and some of the people who can help you. It also looks at how to get ready for emergencies. Boxes to tick and write in are included throughout the booklet, providing a useful list of things to do or find out. This is one of a series of publications to come from the Mutual Caring project, set up to promote good practice and improve service provision for older families caring for people with learning disabilities.
Fertility history and quality of life in older women and men
- Authors:
- READ Sanna, GRUNDY Emily
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 31(1), January 2011, pp.125-145.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This paper investigates the associations between the fertility histories of older British women and men and their quality of life. Data was included from men and women born between 1923 and 1949 as drawn from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Quality of life in 2001 was measured for 6,374 individuals using four subscales: control; autonomy; pleasure; and self-realisation. The aspects of fertility history investigated were number of children born and parents' ages at birth of first and last child. Other factors included: age; education; marital status; tenure status; smoking; co-residence with one or more children; perceived social support; and health limitations. Findings revealed that early entry to parenthood were related to poorer quality of life. These associations were mostly mediated by socio-economic, social support and health factors. Compared to women with two children, women who had never had children expressed a higher level of autonomy, and both women who had never had children and those with four or more children a higher level of self-realisation.
Neighbours in need
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.2.09, 2009, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Older people living alone in social housing are under pressure to move and make way for larger families. The author discusses this dilemma, and the question of whose needs are the greatest.
Advantageous inequality or disadvantageous equality? Ethnicity and family support among older people in Britain
- Author:
- WILLIS Rosalind
- Journal article citation:
- Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care, 1(2), December 2008, pp.18-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
There is a popular perception that particular ethnic groups have a stronger sense of filial responsibility than is found in Western European societies, which has led to a belief that formal services are not require by minority groups. However, it has been suggested that some minority ethnic older people are actually in greater need of support, because of factors such as poorer health and lower socio-economic status than the white majority in Britain. Employing data from the 2005 Home Office Citizenship Survey, ethnic group differences in help given to family members are examined. Contrary to prevailing assumptions, there was only one ethnic group difference; black Caribbean older people had significantly lower odds than white British people of supporting members of their household. Support was equally likely among all other minority groups and the white British group, providing nationally representative evidence for an idea only previously speculated upon.
Caring for someone with an alcohol problem
- Author:
- WARD Mike
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 118p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
Caring for someone with alcohol problems can be physically and emotionally exhausting, and it is often difficult to think about what can be done to make things easier. This book examines issues such as: who becomes a problem drinker and why; the impact of alcohol problems on carers and the family; working for change; and support and specialist services.