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Caring and repairing in the island communities
- Author:
- HUNTER Eveline
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 22.3.90, 1990, pp.29-31.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on an Age Concern Scotland scheme which enables elderly people to remain in their renovated homes.
Housing: the essential element in community care; the role of 'Care and Repair' and 'Staying put' projects
- Authors:
- HARRISON Lyn, MEANS Robin
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 108p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Research study looking at Anchor Housing Trust and Care and Repair Ltd's successes in developing housing agency services to assist older homeowners with repair and improvement work. Argues that these projects are extremely effective in delivering high quality information and advice, and that their work has improved the health and welfare of elderly and disabled people, enabling them to remain in the community. Makes recommendations for future development.
Moving in old age: new directions in housing policies
- Author:
- OLDMAN Christine
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 157p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the options available to elderly people who want to move out of their existing accommodation. Includes chapters on sheltered housing, financial effects, housing appropriateness and affordability and and evaluation of mixed tenure schemes.
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.
Very sheltered housing: proceedings of an ageing update conference held on 17th May 1991 at International Student's House, London
- Editor:
- MORTON Jane
- Publisher:
- Age Concern Institute of Gerontology
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains papers on the place of very sheltered housing in the housing and care needs of older people, and an evaluation of such housing. Goes on to look at specific schemes and how they work.
Directory of services for elderly people in the UK
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Longman
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 272p.
- Place of publication:
- Harlow
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Final report of the Stratford elderly pilot project
- Author:
- NEWHAM. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Newham. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on a review of all elderly cases and new referrals to community-based health and social services teams.
Law and elderly people
- Authors:
- GRIFFITHS Aled, GRIMES Richard, ROBERTS Gwyneth
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 374p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines aspects of the law which are of particular significance to elderly people : employment and income; accommodation and housing; community care; residential care; health provision; family relationships and personal autonomy.
Housing in later life: the housing finance implications of an ageing society
- Authors:
- MACKINTOSH Sheila, MEANS Robin, LEATHER Philip
- Publisher:
- University of Bristol. School of Advanced Urban Studies
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 170p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Examines the implications of the increase in the older population for housing policies and housing provision.
Community care works: learning from the Torbay experience
- Authors:
- BEARDSHAW Virginia, MORGAN Edith
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 168p., tables, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides a record of the successes and shortcomings of community care in Torbay, one of the first Health Authorities to transfer its services from large psychiatric hospitals to the community.