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Ready to go home: rehabilitation re-discovered
- Authors:
- MILLARD Peter H., SHARMAN Julie
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 32p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Argues that the missing link, the solution to the repeated hospital bed crises, and to the waiting list dilemma is rehabilitation. It is known from clinical experience why rehabilitation works. It would also be appropriate to the dignity of older people. Rehabilitation programmes would start in the hospital and be completed in the community only when the person's full potential had been reached.
Health Action Zones: improving the health of older people?
- Authors:
- BAULD Linda, ZEILIG Hannah
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 9(3), September 1999, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Examines to what extent Health Action Zones have chosen to focus on the health of older people. Looks at the diversity of Health Action Zones; outlines to what extent the programmes and activities focus on older people; provides two examples specifically aimed an improving the health of older people.
Partners in care
- Author:
- DAVIDSON Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 28.4.99, 1999, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Good support may mean a carer is able to cope who otherwise might not have. The author outlines her family's experience of the Mosely Hall Carer Support Unit.
The effects of race and ethnicity on use of health services by older Americans
- Authors:
- LUM Yat-Sang, CHANG Hong Jer, OZAWA Martha N.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Service Research, 25(4), 1999, pp.15-42.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study examines racial and ethnic differences in use of health services by white, African American and Hispanic elderly people. Results of the sample found that African American and Hispanic elderly were more likely to make physician visits, Hispanic elderly made more visits than white elderly. Results also found the effects of factors affecting use of health services varied by race and ethnicity.
Potential cost savings in residential care for Alzheimer's Disease patients
- Authors:
- LEON Joel, MOYER Delores
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 39(4), August 1999, pp.440-449.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This American study uses data from a 1996 cross-sectional study examining the costs of care for Alzheimer's Disease patients to estimate the potential cost savings that could result from a new model of care. This model involves substituting assisted living for nursing home care for Alzheimer's Disease residents with health care profiles that appear to be manageable within assisted living facilities that specialise in dementia care. Results indicate that 13 percent of nursing home costs could be saved, making such a service substitution an attractive alternative in the provision of residential care for certain categories of Alzheimer Disease patients.
Improving the quality of care for older people
- Authors:
- McCORMACK Brendan, FORD Pauline
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 2.6.99, 1999, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on SCOPE, a European initiative to improve primary health care for older people.
Health emergency
- Author:
- WHITE Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.1.99, 1999, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how social services are spending the government's winter pressures money to help ease the hospitals crisis.
United, in sickness and in health?
- Authors:
- McCURRY Patrick, WHITE Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.1.99, 1999, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As a flu bug throws winter pressures plans in to chaos, and elderly and vulnerable patients in accident and emergency departments grow longer, reports on how MPs are recommending tearing down divisions between health and social services.
Dementia care: developing partnerships in practice
- Editors:
- ADAMS Trevor, CLARKE Charlotte L.
- Publisher:
- Bailliere Tindall
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 396p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Promotes dementia care as a service emphasising the individuality of people with dementia, and the importance of their continuing relationships with their family carers. Explores the implications for professional practice of valuing and protecting individuals who have dementia and the family care giving relationship. Aims to reflect and stimulate research into practice, and discusses issues which need to be acknowledged by practitioners in order to provide informed and enlightened care.
Winter planning conference: conference proceedings; 12th July 1999, Wembley Conference Centre
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Millennium Executive Team
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. National Health Service Executive
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents key messages from the recent conference on planning for winter 1999/2000 and the Millennium holiday period.