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Footcare services for older people: a resource pack for commissioners and service providers
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 26p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication is for commissioners and service providers. It explains why footcare is important and describes service providers, types of service, what good services should look like and what they should achieve, and developing services.
Audiology: hearing services for older people
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 3p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing outlines recent improvements in audiology services and provides information on a range of tools to help commissioners and providers.
The carer's cosmetic handbook: simple health and beauty tips for older persons
- Author:
- TAY Sharon
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 159p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This practical handbook is designed to assist carers in looking after their clients' appearances as well as their health, covering cosmetics, nails, herbal remedies and essential oils, hair removal methods for women, nutrition and health, the skin and skin care and makeup.
Self-neglect and neglect of vulnerable older adults: reexamination of etiology
- Authors:
- CHOI Namkee G., KIM Jinseok, ASSEFF Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 52(2), February 2009, pp.171-187.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Elder self-neglect and neglect by caregivers have been shown to be the most commonly reported and substantiated of the types of elder mistreatment. Using assessment and investigation data from the reported Adult Protection Services cases in Texas in 2005, this study aims to examine the type of elder self-neglect and neglect, including medical neglect. It also examines the association between self-neglect/neglect and individual economic resources as well as health care and social services programmes for the poor. The findings show that a large portion of elder self-neglect/neglect is the consequence of the victims’ lack of economic resources to pay for essential goods and services. Elder self-neglect/neglect is also due to the inadequate healthcare and other formal support programmes for the older adults and their caregivers. The article concludes that this inadequate public policy coverage needs to be considered as a significant cause of elder self-neglect and neglect.
Factors associated with non-use of inpatient hospital care service by elderly people in China
- Authors:
- WANG Junfang, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 17(5), September 2009, pp.476-484.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Using a fully structured questionnaire, trained health personnel interviewed 4046 Chinese aged 60 and older in Zhejiang province selected by a two-stage stratified cluster sampling scheme between September and December 2007. Based on the Andersen behavioural model, hierarchical logistic regression analysis was used to explore the predictors of non-use of this service. The rate of non-use was 14.2 percent for inpatient hospital care service. Logistic regression analyses revealed that enabling factors were more important than either predisposing or need factors in predicting non-use of inpatient hospital care service. Predisposing factors other than education were not significant, and only the need factor of number of diseases was significant for non-use of inpatient hospital care service. The odds of non-use for those with a college or higher degree were 0.36 times the odds for those with primary or lower education. The odds of non-use in the presence of 4–10 diseases and 1–3 diseases were 3.10 times and 2.14 times, respectively, of those having no disease. Among the four enabling factors, only degree of living satisfaction score was not significantly associated with non-use of inpatient hospital care service. For elderly persons with higher healthcare expenditure, joining new rural cooperative medical insurance or having low social support, the odds of reporting non-use of inpatient hospital care services were raised. Findings indicated that, in the absence of universal and comprehensive medical insurance coverage, enabling factors are more important than either predisposing or need factors in predicting non-use.
Negotiating candidacy: ethnic minority seniors' access to care
- Author:
- KOEHN Sharon
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 29(4), May 2009, pp.585-608.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The ‘Barriers to Access to Care for Ethnic Minority Seniors’ (BACEMS) study in Vancouver, British Columbia, found that immigrant families torn between changing values and the economic realities that accompany immigration cannot always provide optimal care for their elders. Ethnic minority seniors further identified language barriers, immigration status, and limited awareness of the roles of the health authority and of specific service providers as barriers to health care. The configuration and delivery of health services, and health-care providers' limited knowledge of the seniors' needs and confounded these problems. To explore the barriers to access, the BACEMS study relied primarily on focus group data collected from ethnic minority seniors and their families and from health and multicultural service providers. The applicability of the recently developed model of ‘candidacy’, which emphasises the dynamic, multi-dimensional and contingent character of health-care access to ethnic minority seniors, was assessed. The candidacy framework increased sensitivity to ethnic minority seniors' issues and enabled organisation of the data into manageable conceptual units, which facilitated translation into recommendations for action, and revealed gaps that pose questions for future research. It has the potential to make Canadian research on the topic more co-ordinated.
Older Adult inmates: the challenge for social work
- Authors:
- SNYDER Cindy, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 54(2), April 2009, pp.117-124.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Older adult inmates have grown both in proportion and in number due to the confluence of a number of factors. This article aims is to help social work practitioners to engage in older adult prison advocacy work by familiarizing them with a review of pertinent literature. Topics discussed include the following: the characteristics of older adult inmates, the special needs of older offenders and accompanying service delivery issues, and the use of selective decarceration as one strategy for addressing the problem of prison overcrowding. The authors conclude the article with a summary of key challenges social workers face in assisting this population.
Abuse: older people at risk
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
User-friendly factsheet intended for enquirers, and directly relevant to older people, their families and carers. This item deals with older people at risk from abuse;
There's no place like home: place and care in an ageing society
- Author:
- MILLIGAN Christine
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 188p.
- Place of publication:
- Farnham
This book addresses key concerns about the nature and site of care and care-giving. Following a review of research into who cares, where and how, it uses geographical perspectives to present a comprehensive analysis of how the intersection of informal care-giving within domestic, community and residential care homes can create complex landscapes of care. Case studies are used to develop a theoretical basis for a geographical analysis of the issue of care. By relating these theoretical concepts to empirical data and case studies it describes how formal and informal care-giver responses can act to facilitate or constrain the development of inclusionary models of care. Although much of the focus of this book is on the care of older people within the UK, many of the core themes and concepts discussed are of wider relevance. Chapters include: conceptualising the complex landscapes of care; who cares? people, place and gender; mapping the contours of care: international and transnational perspectives; care and home; the impact of new care technologies on home and care; care and community?; care and transition: from community to residential care; emotion and the socio-spatial mediation of care; and reconfiguring the landscape of care: porosity, integration and extitution.
Unique challenges of transgender aging: implications from the literature
- Author:
- PERSSON Diane I.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 52(6), August 2009, pp.633-646.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article discusses the terminology of transgender, and explores the issues facing ageing transgender individuals. Neither the etiology nor prevalence of transgender is well understood. Unlike biological sex and sexual orientation, gender has several aspects: gender identity, gender expression and gender classification. Although the challenges of adequate healthcare, social support and legal obstacles are faced by many elderly individuals, the way they are presented and managed are unique to this often invisible group.