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What price care in old age?: three years on from SPAIN’s underfunding of social care paper, what has changed?
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
The report exposes the budget rationing and age discrimination that continues to starve older people of the care they need. Though older people make up 62% of social services’ clients, they only see 47% of the budget because funds are ‘creamed off’ to pay for other adults’ services. And local authorities are still paying lower rates for older people’s residential care than for other groups – in 2004 local authorities were only prepared to pay an average of £377 for older people, while younger adults were offered £447 to £734. Funding shortages mean that crucial services for older people are being cut or diminished. Cleaning and housework services, respite, transport and mobility aids can make or break an older person’s independence, but these are being severed across the country. The number of households receiving home care has gone down by a quarter since 1997. Home care services and mobility equipment are crucial for helping to prevent older people from needing expensive hospital stays or moving into a care home. For the want of a grab rail costing around £25 or a ramp costing £150 ramp, an older person may suffer falls that require a stay on an acute ward costing approximately £1,285.
Prevention in practice: service models, methods and impact
- Authors:
- AGE CONCERN, HELP THE AGED
- Publisher:
- Age Concern; Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 100p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report demonstrates the range of outcomes that are possible for older people through the provision of high quality preventive services. It describes some of the range of services provided by Age Concern across England. For each service the report details: the scope; benefits to users; relevance to relevant targets; outputs and outcomes; evaluation; sustainability and costs; contact details. The services are presented in four sections. The first section, 'the right information and advice at the most appropriate time', includes a Community Advocacy Service and a Housing Options Service. 'Practical support services' comprises of a Handyperson Service, a HomeShopping Service and a Transport Access People Service. Projects in the 'support to remain as independent as possible, and to continue participating and contributing section' include: Activity Centres; DaisyFresh Home Bathing Service; Men in Sheds Project; Nordic Walking; Opening Doors - supporting Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Communities in Central London. The final section, 'support at difficult times and for carers' covers Talking Therapies, the Time Out Respite Service and a Befriending Service.
A response to the London Borough of Brent draft community care plan 1992-95: based on consultation meetings with pensioners' groups, individual pensioners and voluntary organisations working with older people
- Authors:
- AGE CONCERN, BRENT PENSIONERS' FORUM
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London