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The health, social care and housing needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people: literature review
- Authors:
- DAVIES Myfanwy, et al
- Publisher:
- All Wales Alliance for Research and Development in Health and Social Care
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 71p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This literature review, commissioned by the Welsh Office for Research and Development in Health and Social Care, identified many existing, international sources of evidence-based research and grey literature between 1985-2009 on the heath, housing and social care needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older people, including those from other minority groups with differing ethnicity or language and disabled people. It also identified areas for future research and informed policy makers in the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) of 6 key recommendations which are summarised. Many of the health, housing and social needs of older LGBT people will be the same as other older members of the community in Wales, but because older LGBT people suffer from discrimination in many different forms such as homophobia, trans-phobia, bi-phobia, assumption that heterosexism is the norm and other forms of sexuality require healing, and ageism, there have been consequences for the quality of communication, service and care provided to these groups. Older LGBT people may conceal their sexuality because of this and as such their needs, which evidence from younger groups suggests may be different, in terms of substance misuse, use of heath services, and housing for example, will unlikely be addressed.
A Slovenia model of integrated care for older people can offer solutions for NHS services
- Author:
- JONES Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 15.12.09, 2009, pp.10-12.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
A visit to an integrated model of care for older people in Slovenia is described. The care home visited, 'Sunny Dale' enabled residents with health and social care needs to remain in the same place throughout their lives.
Demographic aspects of population ageing
- Authors:
- FALKINGHAM Jane, GRUNDY Emily
- Publisher:
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 29p.
- Place of publication:
- Swindon
It is well known that the population is ageing but the implications for policy, and the statistics needed to inform policy, are the subject of current discussion amongst demographers. The growing proportion of the population that are older people is of primary interest in some key policy areas such as health, housing, social services and pensions, this latter including policies on benefits and tax allowances. Intergenerational transfer between older and younger people, both financial and social, needs to be analysed. Whilst it is accepted that population ageing is inevitable, the speed of ageing and the future ageing structures of the population will vary depending on the key demographic components that cause population change. For example, the impact of fertility needs to be considered, as this is one of the main drivers of population ageing. This migration of older people and their geographical distribution will be important to those concerned with a service provision.
Beyond one hip fracture at a time: rethinking aging services
- Author:
- VLADECK Fredda W.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 43(3/4), 2004, pp.151-162.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The argument in this article is that the basic conceptual model used in construction of services to older people served well in years past but is now inadequate, descriptively or analytically. An alternative approach to the construction of community-based services is proposed and then examples from the practice of the author and from other communities are described. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Care services inquiry interim report: concerns about care for older Londoners
- Author:
- ROBINSON Janice
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
There is increasing public concern about the availability, quality and appropriateness of care services for London’s diverse older population. Is the ‘care market’ working for older people in London, and will there be enough care services of the right quality for them in the future? In February 2004, the King’s Fund launched its Care Services Inquiry to investigate these questions, led by an independent committee made up of people with experience and expertise in the health, housing and social care of older people. This interim report sets out early findings from the opinions expressed and information submitted to the inquiry between March and September 2004.
Getting old is not for cowards: comfortable, healthy ageing
- Authors:
- REED Jan, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 70p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The project reported on here was commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as a way of exploring different ideas about health for older people, alternatives to medical models that defined health simply as the absence of disease. In these medical models, with their emphasis on physiology and cure, growing old becomes a process of experiencing increasing deficits and problems, and the goals of intervention are to prevent or treat these problems. Much medical research and the resources to support it therefore concentrate on these deficits, and define ‘healthy ageing’ as avoiding or escaping them. Partly in response to this deficit model, a movement has developed which seeks to promote the idea of growing older as positive experience. If services are based on ideas of health that have developed in professional and policy debates, then they run the risk of being, at best, irrelevant to the needs of older people and, at worst, dismissive of their views and damaging to them. Services that are designed to promote health for older people, therefore, need to take into account the ideas and wishes of older people themselves.
Senior and heard
- Author:
- HARDING Mary-Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 12.2.04, 2004, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on the London older people's service development programme, which aims to address the social as well as the medical needs of older people. The programme covers 25 borough-based projects, each with a dedicated lead manager and multidisciplinary steering group. It identifies people at risk and co-ordinates work across team care boundaries.
A picture of health
- Author:
- DRENNAN Vari
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 24.04.03, 2003, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on a scheme that set out to improve the lives of older people and how it became a successful example of joint working between health and social care.
Falling between the cracks
- Author:
- MILLAR Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 27.3.97, 1997, p.13.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Looks at the findings of 'Addressing the balance', a recent report from the Health Advisory Service, which argues that services for elderly people are being destabilised by the purchaser-provider split.
Older patients - who cares?
- Author:
- O'KELL Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 12.3.97, 1997, p.37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The author explains why the government must spell out who does what in the assessment of community clients' health needs.