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Explaining about - advocacy and care home residents
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 9(1), March 2005, pp.9-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Explains how advocacy can empower care home residents and how these services are currently provided, and argues for better funding. Also briefly reports on a pilot study of local Age Concern advocacy schemes funded under the Nuffield Foundation's small grants programme in the autumn of 2003. The study highted different advocacy service models, numbers of referrals, types of referrals and funding problems.
Asset stripping: local authorities and older homeowners paying for a care home place
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 46p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Finding a fair and equitable system of paying for long term residential or nursing home care is a major policy issue. This report explores the experiences of older people who self fund their residential or nursing home care. It finds that for frail older people and their relatives, choosing and paying for long term care is fraught with confusion over the legal complexities. The study also finds: a wide variation in local authority policies and practices; conflicts between local authorities and independent sector care home providers; and a lack of impartial advice for older homeowners about the alternatives to care home admission and about the different types of care home.
Older couples and long-term care: the financial implications of one spouse entering private or voluntary residential or nursing home care
- Authors:
- HANCOCK Ruth, WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 19(2), March 1999, pp.209-237.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
A minority of older people who move into long-term institutional care are married and have spouses who continue living in the community. This article uses data from the Family Expenditure Survey on the incomes of older married couples to examine the financial implications for couples of one spouse entering residential or nursing home care, taking into account local authority procedures for assessing residents' contributions to charges and Income Support rules as they apply to both spouse. It looks in particular at the consequences of alternative ways couples might share their incomes, and alternative treatments of such sharing by local authorities and the Department of Social Security.
Handling residents' monies in residential and nursing homes: an explanatory study
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Publisher:
- Age Concern Institute of Gerontology
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 32p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research study looking at: mechanisms in the private, voluntary and public sectors for residents' fees being paid; whether or not residents on income support or sponsored by a local or health authority were being paid a personal expenses allowance; issues arising from someone else handling a resident's financial affairs; and what opportunities exist for residents to spend personal monies in homes.
Discrimination against self-funding residents in long-term residential care in England
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 23(5), September 2003, pp.603-624.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Reports the findings of research funded by The Nuffield Foundation on older people paying the full cost of their long-term residential or nursing home care in England. The research had three stages; a national postal survey directed at the senior finance officer in social services departments, follow-up telephone interviews with a sample of them, and interviews in five case study areas. Those interviewed included social services staff (including a legal adviser), care home providers, self-funding residents and relatives. These self-funding residents were commonly relatively physically independent on admission to the care home. Despite central government directives that needs assessments should be available regardless of a person's means, it is a common policy to encourage older people in this situation to admit themselves directly to care homes without a needs assessment. Wide variation was found in local authority practice in respect to being prepared to make a contract with a care-home provider for older people able to meet the full costs of care.