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Disembodied voices
- Author:
- TINKER Anthea
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.4.95, 1995, p.30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Suggests that telecommunication technology could be the key to independent living for disabled people in the future.
Desire for independence
- Author:
- COHEN Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.1.95, 1995, p.30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Older people with HIV have specialist needs which are not always met by existing statutory and voluntary agencies. Finds out how their needs for more independent living may be met.
Tuning in to the home service
- Author:
- DOBSON Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.12.95, 1995, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a project, Homeshare, a London-based project which brings lone elderly people and young home seekers together. The home-sharing project provides care in return for accommodation.
Giving up driving in Alzheimer's Disease - an integrative therapeutic approach
- Authors:
- BAHRO Marcel, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 10(10), October 1995, pp.871-874.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
For patients with Alzheimers Disease (AD), a recommendation to stop operating a motor vehicle can be a serious event complicated by a loss of self-esteem and personal dignity. Patients are often reluctant to give up an activity so essential, both practically and symbolically, to independent living. Describes a patient with moderately progressed AD who lacked insight of his need to cease driving. Through an integrative treatment approach, combining behavioural and psychodynamic modalities, he was helped to formulate effective ways of coping with his loss of access to independent transportation. Argues for a psychotherapeutic strategy that combines behavioural and managerial measures with dynamic patient interaction, thereby developing the patient's insight of the need to give up driving while fostering his sense of autonomy.
Age of independence
- Author:
- DOBSON Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.7.95, 1995, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Examines the dilemmas facing the social workers of an elderly woman who cannot be protected from her own actions.
Older people's sadness: a study of older people with depression
- Authors:
- CHESTER Rosie, SMITH Jef
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 63p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report challenging current thinking about the needs of depressed older people.
Managing money in later life: qualitative research among retirement pensioners
- Authors:
- FINCH Helen, ELAM Gillian
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 114p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research report looking at how people over state pension age, and with assets of not more than 20,000, manage their money. Examines factors influencing financial plans and decisions in retirement, including personal circumstances and attitudes towards: debt, leaving an inheritance, maintaining independence, claims for state benefits, and use of assets such as house equity. Based on in-depth interviews with 52 pensioners.
Family policies for an aging society: moving to the twenty-first century
- Authors:
- MOEN Phyllis, FOREST Kay B.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 35(6), December 1995, pp.825-830.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Argues that gerontologists can make a contribution to family policy by documenting and describing the gaps between needs and resources of families at all life stages, developing family indicators of social change, and sensitizing both decision makers and the public to the unintended consequences of existing or proposed policies. Considers the need for policies conductive to family well-being at all stages of the course. Looks in particular at the three areas of physical and economic security, health, and independence and integration
EMPowerment: not EMPire-building: developments in the elder mediation project (EMP)
- Author:
- CRAIG Yvonne
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 5(1), March 1995, pp.7-9.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Discusses the EMP project, which has been developed with members of the national voluntary organisation Mediation UK. The project aims to enable older people to strengthen their skills in affirming their rights to contribute to decision-making about their lives. Looks briefly at EMP's main principles and processes, illustrated by two case studies.
Citizenship and old age: the end of the road?
- Author:
- HIGGS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 15(4), December 1995, pp.535-550.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Concerned with the inter-linked issues of citizenship and the structured dependency of older people within Social Gerontology. It argues that implicit in much British Social Gerontology is a strategy of advancing the wellbeing of elderly people through the extension of citizenship rights. Absence of these rights lead to poverty, exclusion and ageism being commonplace experiences of large sections of the older population. This approach draws heavily on the ideas regarding social citizenship of T.H. Marshall who has influenced much mainstream social policy in Britain since 1945. Changes to the Welfare State since 1979 have seriously questioned the validity of this approach and many of these criticisms apply to the structured dependency approach. Recent work on citizenship can help us to see how the relationship between old age and citizenship has changed and how the relationship between old age and citizenship has changed and how far theory in social gerontology needs to change to take account of these new circumstances.