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Domestic harmony
- Author:
- ALLEN Daniel
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.9.96, 1996, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author investigates a scheme in Northern Ireland which helps elderly people to have the chance to remain at home and not be placed in residential care if their needs become too much for a friend or relative to cope with.
Elderly people
- Author:
- CROSBY Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 2, October 1996, pp.27-30.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Research has taken time to catch up with the direction of community care policy, which is for more older people to be cared for in their own homes rather than in institutions. In addition, it is important to look at the shortcomings of specialist forms of accommodation which can too readily be seen as a panacea.
Unit trusts
- Authors:
- WARREN Lorna, WALKER Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.9.96, 1996, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses how a radical scheme designed to help elderly people remain independent, fell down because the local authority was unable to find the resources to finance it.
Keeping together
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.6.96, 1996, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The idea of splitting up elderly couples who need different levels of care is abhorrent. The author asks why the suggestion ever came to be considered.
The long arm of the welfare state shortened: home help in Sweden
- Authors:
- SUNDSTROM G., MALMBERG B.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 5(2), April 1996, pp.69-75.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Old age care in Sweden expanded greatly in all areas in the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s, both institutional and in-home services have retreated. Little substitution between the two kinds of care can be observed. Cutbacks relative to demographic needs, and probably also to actual needs, have occurred nationally and locally. Home help is analysed as a metaphor for social services and welfare at large. The strategy has been to give priority to the frailest and oldest clients. Others often have to make do without any services. Also, current recipients of home help services now get different inputs: in the 1980s and earlier, 8 of 10 home help hours were used for homemaking (such as shopping, cooking, cleaning and laundry); in the 1990s about half is used for personal care of clients.
Epic style of care
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.4.96, 1996, p.6.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A one-stop solution ending the threat to elderly people's independence has been imported from San Francisco, reports the author.
Domiciliary care: a survey of the independent sector in South Glamorgan
- Authors:
- UNIVERSITY OF WALES, CARDIFF. School of Social and Administrative Studies
- Publisher:
- University of Wales, Cardiff. School of Social and Administrative Studies
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 105p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Report containing findings of a survey of independent providers of domiciliary care operating in South Glamorgan.
Older people in receipt of home help: a group with high levels of unmet health needs
- Authors:
- REDMOND Esther, RUDD A.G., MARTIN F.C.
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 4(6), November 1996, pp.347-352.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes a case control study which tests the hypothesis that older people receiving home help have higher levels of unmet health needs than those not receiving home help and constitute an 'at risk' group. People over 60 years in receipt of home help were picked at random from a home help register and controls who were not receiving home help were selected from two general practitioners age/sex registers. Domiciliary visit and assessment by a specialist health visitor for older people were undertaken followed by referral to appropriate agencies. Concludes that using the home help register is a valuable method of identifying a group of individuals with significant levels of unmet health needs.
Is home care a realistic alternative to residential care among institutionalized elderly people in Finland?
- Authors:
- NORO A., ARO S.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 5(4), October 1996, pp.249-258.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
The high rate of institutionalisation among elderly people in Finland is widely among policy-makers. Studies how realistic the wishes for deinstitutionalisation are among the least sick elderly people in residential care, and what patient characteristics predict whether residential care is appropriate. This issue was assessed by the residential home personnel. Personnel assessment of institutional care as appropriate was mainly explained by patients' needing help with medication, limitations in activities of daily living, absence of own home return to, no living children, incontinence, and poor vision. Discharging elderly people from long-term residential care back to society is limited by factors such as inadequate housing and shortage of domiciliary care and rehabilitative services, as well as by attitudes among the institutionalised elderly people themselves. It seems more realistic to prevent the inappropriate institutionalisation of elderly people that to discharge the small numbers of fairly independent individuals already in residential homes.
Freedom of choice
- Author:
- BUXTON Valerie
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 23.10.96, 1996, pp.57-59.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Describes the development of an integrated care scheme that allows people in need of continuing care to remain in their own homes.