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The Oxford conference: supporting older people in general housing; proceedings of an international symposium at Wadham College, Oxford 28th-30th March 1990
- Author:
- ANCHOR HOUSING TRUST
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 120p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Papers from a conference that brought together people from a variety of different organisations and disciplines. Includes papers on: housing agency services in Britain; rural initiatives in Northern Ireland; staying put in the Netherlands; the Oxford Agewell Project; commercial enterprises and sheltered housing; and the multi-functional centre - the Danish experience.
Sexual abuse of elderly people: would we rather not know the details?
- Author:
- JEARY Katharine
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 6(2), September 2004, pp.21-30.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Considers the wide-ranging situations and circumstances in which sexual abuse of elderly people occurs and suggests that the complexities inherent in the issue mean that policy-makers and practitioners face real challenges in minimising future instances of victimisation. The paper is drawn from a research project, directed at the University of Nottingham by Professor Olive Stevenson and funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Design with care
- Authors:
- CHEVERST Keith, et al
- Journal article citation:
- New Technology in the Human Services, 14(1/2), 2001, pp.39-47.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Human Service Technology
This paper is primarily about design and some of the difficulties of ‘appropriate’ design in care settings: about the interaction between technologies, application domains, design methodologies and about some of the challenges of informing design. This is hardly a novel concern, but this particular focus arises as a consequence of digital technologies maturing and transferring to the everyday domain; as the convergence of interactive digital systems, networks and mobile devices potentially transforms the ways that we carry out mundane, everyday activities. In recent years, the increasing presence of computing technology in the domestic environment has emerged as an important new arena of study. Domestic environments are becoming key sites for the consumption of information and communication technologies - embracing, in the ‘care’ domain, various forms of ‘assistive’ technologies and the design and provision of ‘smart’ homes. This paper reports on a recently initiated research project ‘Care in the Digital Community’ - begun under the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Dependability Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (DIRC) Network project EQUATOR. The project aims to use a multidisciplinary research team to facilitate the development of enabling technologies to assist care in the community for particular user groups with different support needs. The general objective is to examine how digital technology can be used to support sheltered housing residents and their staff. Although only recently started, the project anticipates exploring the affordances of a variety of technological configurations, including the use of virtual environments replicating real world situations, and the use of handheld and wearable digital technology to provide support.
Supporting independence: home support services for older people
- Authors:
- QUILGARS Deborah, OLDMAN Christine, CARLISLE Jane
- Publisher:
- Anchor Trust
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 104p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidlington,
Report presenting findings of research with older people receiving Anchor Home Support services in sheltered housing and in the wider community. Examines ways in which the home support services enhanced quality of life for older people, as well as assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the way services were delivered, with the aim of informing the future development of services.
Home sweet home
- Author:
- HIRST Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.6.95, 1995, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains the findings of a study in Wiltshire which examines how elderly people choose between sheltered accommodation or remaining in their own homes.
I didn't know you cared: a survey of Anchor's sheltered housing tenants
- Authors:
- RISEBOROUGH Moyra, NINER Pat
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 80p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Results of a survey of Anchor Housing's sheltered housing tenants. Includes data on: the tenants; the move to Anchor; tenants views on housing provided; the housing management and warden service; income, rent and affordability; health, dependency and domiciliary services; and consultation and participation.
Housing in later life
- Author:
- OLDMAN Joe
- Publisher:
- Age UK
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 43
- Place of publication:
- London
This report outlines some of the challenges and opportunities for older people’s housing with recommendations for action. It argues that while current reforms to the care system offer an opportunity to encourage better ways of integrating housing with flexible forms of care and support it is still too difficult to get simple home adaptations or repairs carried out quickly and affordably. Not enough of the right type of retirement housing is built to tempt older people who might wish to downsize. Many of the options that do exist are only available to a relatively small section of the older population. The reports discusses in some detail the key challenges around promoting independence with accessible and adaptable homes, tackling poor conditions and delivering decent homes, integrating housing with health and social care, sheltered and retirement housing and housing wealth and housing choices. The report makes a comprehensive series of recommendations, calling for all new mainstream and specialised housing to automatically comply with higher accessibility standards and for all older patients coming into contact with health care services to be offered an assessment of their home with an action plan to ensure it facilitates the delivery of appropriate care and support. (Edited publisher abstract)
Voice of older people: annual report 2008-09
- Author:
- BAKEWELL Joan
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Government Equalities Office
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is written by Joan Bakewell in her capacity as the Government’s Voice of Older People. It is an informal report, setting out the most important issues that have reached her in her year in the position, her response to them, and the ways that the Government is moving to improve the situation. The issues that she has been contacted about most are: domiciliary care; council tax and local government including the closure of public toilets; modern technology; the NHS’s treatment of the elderly and end of life care; retirement age; pensions for both UK residents and expatriates; and sheltered housing and care homes. Joan describes how, using her experience as a journalist and broadcaster, she has been raising awareness of these issues. The report also provides information on Government initiatives to improve the lives of older people including the Equality Bill and the Building a Society for All Ages strategy.
There's something fresh in the state of Denmark
- Author:
- LESLIE Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 11(1), January 2003, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Looks at dementia care in Denmark.
Blurring the boundaries: a fresh look at housing and care provision for older people
- Author:
- OLDMAN Christine
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 75p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Provides an overview of new forms of housing-based models of care for older people, sometimes referred to as 'very sheltered housing', and critically examines the claims that have been made about them, charting the main differences between the models . Also presents a methodology for evaluating them and presents the findings of two innovative schemes which aim in different ways to provide independent living for their occupants. Concludes that though such schemes may be no cheaper than traditional models, they may be more cost effective. Argues that there are policy obstacles to such approaches becoming more widespread and proposes changes in funding to expedite them.