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Focus on older people
- Editors:
- SOULE A., et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 92p., tables
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This report includes information on their characteristics, lifestyles and experiences, placing particular emphasis on changes with age. Older people make up an increasing proportion of our population. The blurring of the various stages in our lifecycle mean that older people are as varied as any other group in our society. Many older people lead active and healthy lives for many years over the age of 50. Employment rates for people in their fifties have risen in the past decade, and it is this age group who are most likely to be providing unpaid care. However, for those at older ages, there may be barriers which prevent them from participating in a wide variety of activities. These may be financial, or related to health or lack of transport.
Older and wiser
- Author:
- PASHLEY Glenys
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 24.7.97, 1996, pp.58-60.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This article argues that inequalities in health services available to older women can adversely affect their physical and psychological well-being.
Household budgets and living standards
- Editor:
- BRADSHAW Jonathan
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 35p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report gives estimates of the cost of living at a "modest-but-adequate" and at a "low-cost" level in Britain in 1993. It includes estimates of how much families would need to spend on a number of main commodities to reach a particular living standard, income required for each family type, estimates of the cost of a child, comparison between the low-cost budget and the benefit rates paid by income support.
Manchester: a great place to grow older: 2010-2020
- Author:
- MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL. Manchester Joint Health Unit. Valuing Older People
- Publisher:
- Manchester City Council
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 69p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Part of Manchester’s Joint Health Unit, Valuing Older People (VOP) is a partnership between Manchester City Council, the NHS, the voluntary sector and the resident, older people of Manchester, which has been active since 2003. Part one of this document gives a summary of data, following consultations via workshops, meetings, questionnaires, of improvements made to services and opportunities for older people and details its strategy of 5 key objectives (better neighbourhoods, increased income and employment, increase participation in cultural, learning and leisure activities, improved health, improved care and support) for building on these achievements over the next 10 years, with particular focus on significant changes and proposals for the next 2 years. In part two, 8 programmes of work covering all aspects of urban life are detailed along with highlighted actions for the next two years. Areas covered include three cross-cutting themes, promoting equality, and improving relationships and engagement, the four topics of concern within ‘lifetime neighbourhoods’, housing, transport, environment and community safety, income and employment, culture and learning, healthy ageing, care and support services. Details of how all these will be delivered, developed, measured and evaluated, with regards to the quality of life of Manchester’s older people are listed in part three.
Attitudes of older adults about community-based services: emergent themes from in-depth interviews
- Authors:
- SCHOENBERG Nancy E., COWARD Raymond T., ALBRECHT Stan L.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 35(4), 2001, pp.3-7.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This American study reports on a survey of 115 older people, to investigates their attitudes about community-based services. Because of the their vulnerability to poor health status, insufficient resources, and low use of formal services relative to their needs, African American and rural elders were over sampled. Both positive and negative attitudes were expressed about formal services. Main concerns included the quality of the programme or staff; security; cost and eligibility requirements; transportation; and logistical elements. Implications and recommendations are suggested.
Self-Funded admissions to care homes; research report no. 159; Department for Work and Pensions
- Authors:
- NETTEN Ann, DARTON Robin, CURTIS Lesley
- Publisher:
- Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 183p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Presents findings from a survey to explore the circumstances of elderly people who fund their own admissions into residential or nursing homes. The survey collected information about 921 new admissions to residential and nursing care homes in Great Britain between January 1999 and March 2000, spread across 270 nursing, residential and dual registered homes. Contents include: home characteristics; the residents; home and assets; charges, spend-down and life expectancy.
Building a better Britain for older people: a strategy document
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Social Security
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Social Security
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Document outlining the Government's policies for older people. Covers issues such as: healthy living; income; employment; travel; the home; tackling crime; care and carers; active lives; and consulting older people themselves.
Older people at home: practical issues
- Editors:
- MULLEY Graham, PENN Neil, BURNS Eileen
- Publisher:
- BMJ Books
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 148p.,illus.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Practical text focusing on everyday situations that GPs have identified as being particularly problematic when dealing with older patients. Follows a problem based approach with special emphasis on the needs of older people living at home. Includes chapters on: loneliness; elder abuse; some legal aspects of mental incapacity; what an old age psychiatrist does; rehabilitation and older people; aids to compliance with medication; public transport; money problems and financial help; care homes; housing; carers; community health services; and community care provided by the public and independent sectors.
Community resources for older adults: programs and services in an era of change
- Authors:
- KER Robbyn R., ROBERTO Karen A., PIPER Linda E
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 509p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Thousand Oaks, CA
Textbook giving a thorough overview of community resources, services and care for older people in the United States. Begins by looking at the older population and the implications for community resources of changing demographics. Goes on to deal with the legislative foundations for programmes, services and benefits supporting older adults and at patterns of use and theories of help-seeking behaviour. Part two focuses on specific types of programme, such as: volunteer and intergenerational programmes; education programmes; senior centres and recreation; employment programmes; income programmes; nutrition and meal programmes; health care; mental health services; legal services; transport; housing; case management; home care; and respite care. Part three looks at policy issues.