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Adapting the adaptations process: tackling the barriers within policy and practice
- Author:
- MCCALL Vikki
- Publisher:
- UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 42
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
This report gives insight to the fragmented policy landscape in Scotland around adaptations, with further experiences gathered from England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There are many good practice examples throughout Scotland, and key stakeholders emphasise the important role for adaptations in the impact they make in people’s lives. However, the current systems that supports home adaptations in Scotland are fragmented, overly complex, and bureaucratic. These challenges undermine the preventive potential that adaptations can offer to service users. The report presents the perspectives of key stakeholders on how we can tackle the barriers within policy and practice within the adaptations process. Adaptations involve health and wellbeing-related home and environmental modifications for social, private renters and home-owners. In Scotland and throughout the UK, there are various adaptations processes that support the access, assessment and delivery of adaptations for service users. The report offers a new process for understanding the adaptations process, presenting barriers attached to governance, need awareness, information and advice, assessment, funding, design, delivery, evaluation & performance monitoring. Adaptations to homes and wider environments are essential for supporting health, social care and wellbeing needs, preventing health crises and future proofing homes for a diverse and ageing population. The processes that support adaptations, however, are fragmented, difficult to understand, and involve clear divergence between both local authority area and tenure. The evidence offered in this report leads to a clear need for finding a common approach across Scotland for supporting adaptations. (Edited publisher abstract)
Research and development work relating to assistive technology 2006-07: presented pursuant to section 22 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Recent technological advances mean that, as well as research into the benefits of specific products, the systems, combinations of technologies and the way assistive technology interfacts with new mainstream technology are also researched. The Department of Health (DH) produces an annual report on this work: Research and development work relating to assistive technology. It covers the research and development work carried out by or on behalf of any Government department in relation to equipment that might increase the mobility, activities and independence or well being of disabled people and those suffering from long-term conditions. The annual reports are produced for DH by the Foundation for Assistive Technology (FAST). FAST is a charity funded by DH that works with the assistive technology community to promote useful research and development for disabled and older people.
Rights for real: older people, human rights and the CEHR
- Author:
- BUTLER Frances
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the importance of human rights law for older people, especially those who depend on public services. Shows that it is equally important to recognise any potential role of human rights as a framework of values underpinning the planning and delivery of public services. Argues that all public authorities have a role in making human rights a reality for older people.
Housing for older people
- Author:
- GREGORY Janice
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government. Social Justice and Regeneration Committee
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
In the summer of 2003 the newly formed Social Justice and Regeneration Committee chose "Housing for Older People" as the topic for its first policy review. This was partly due to the wide ranging debate being conducted with the Welsh Assembly Government's "Strategy for Older People in Wales" The topic was approached with the view that any civilised society should ensure that its older citizens live in comfort and security and as independently as their health allows.
In the right place: accessibility, local services and older people
- Author:
- BURNETT Alan
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 75p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Without accessible services and transport, older people can easily suffer social exclusion and lose their independence. This guide for planners of services and transport, looks at the needs of older people and at the problems they encounter in getting around, stressing that effective strategies can be developed only if older people are directly consulted
Building for choice
- Authors:
- THOMAS Caroline, ROOSE Tracey
- Publisher:
- Anchor Trust
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 44p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidlington
Review considering ways in which housing can make independent living easier for older people. The report is aimed at developers, designers, managers and policy makers from the health and social care sectors, as well as housing. Draws examples from schemes from the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
We're in charge: cohousing communities of older people in the Netherlands; lessons for Britain?
- Author:
- BRENTON Maria
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 87p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Research study looking at fifteen groups of people aged fifty-five to eighty plus who, anticipating the possibility of a life alone, or increased frailty, have taken steps to start or join a CoHousing community. CoHousing is an arrangement whereby groups of older people live in their own residential project and form a community in the process, promoting independent and collaborative living in separate, self contained units.
Independence and the elderly
- Author:
- FISK Malcolm J
- Publisher:
- Croom Helm
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 215p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Wales: a good place to grow old?
- Authors:
- BEVAN FOUNDATION, AGE ALLIANCE WALES
- Publisher:
- Age Alliance Wales
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 16
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
In Wales, more than half a million people are aged over 65, nearly one in five of the population; and for the first time, in 2010, there were more older people than children under 16. This report calls for public bodies in Wales to take action to support and promote the independence of older people, through a mixture of appropriate social care services, financial inclusion and ability to travel. It cites key indicators from Welsh Government and other statistcal sources to support its argument. The report includes case studies of individuals who have experienced good quality care or have come into contact with people and organisations that have helped them be less isolated and contributed to their independence, well-being or quality of life. (Original abstract)
Research and development work relating to assistive technology 2012-13: presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 22 of the Chronically Sick and Disbled Persons Act 1970
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 136
- Place of publication:
- London
The report describes the wide range of government funded projects supporting the development, introduction and evaluation of assistive technology that might increase the range of activities and independence or wellbeing of disabled and older people. The report covers any aspect of research and development work in assistive technology, including service provision, research on motivation, cost or patterns of use, as well as technological development. Annex A provides a full listing of government and EU funded research into assistive technology in the UK that has started, finished, or carried out during the year. The report will be of interest to those who want to understand how advances in technology can directly benefit disabled and older people living in the community. (Edited publisher abstract)