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Supporting older families: making a real difference
- Author:
- MAGRILL Dalia
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 107p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Older families are a priority group for support, but it is important that their needs are linked in to the mainstream agendas of services for people with learning disabilities, older people and carers generally. It is important that we make sure that older families have their needs met now, and are supported to remain together for as long as they wish whilst planning for the future with confidence. However, it is equally important that we get things right for older families now so that others who are growing older do not face the same anxieties, uncertainty and fears that so many older family carers have lived with for decades.
Community social work, older people and informal care: a romantic illusion?
- Authors:
- GORDON David, DONALD Sheena
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 186p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Questions the nature of the relationship between the informal and formal worlds of care for older people and the practical question of whether community based social workers can materially change the relationship. Focuses on the work of the Aberdeen Informal Support and Care Project which was set up to develop a local interweaving of the two worlds to produce more effective care.
Older people and community care: an examination of information sources in relation to levels of dependency and care in the community
- Author:
- CAREY Siobhan
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 15p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Caring for elderly people: understanding and practical help. 3rd ed
- Author:
- HOOKER Susan
- Publisher:
- Tavistock/Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 212p., illus., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
A practical guide concerned primarily with elderly people living at home or with relatives. Sets out steps to be taken in coping with illness and the ageing process, contains chapters on daily activities, exercises and aids and gadgets for the aged.
Contrasting European policies for the care of the elderly
- Editors:
- JAMIESON Anne, ILLSLEY Raymond
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 199p., tables, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. Part 1 examines the relationship between formal and informal care, Part 2 deals with care systems and care delivery problems. Includes chapter by Ian Sinclair, Peter Gorbach, Enid Levin and Jenny Williams: 'Community care and residential admissions: results from two empirical studies'.
Ageing and caregiving: theory, research and policy
- Editors:
- BIEGEL David E., BLUM Arthur
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 294p., diags., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Newbury Park, CA
Looks at trends and issues affecting the elderly and their carers in the United States. Includes chapters on care of the elderly in China and in Sweden.
Informal care: proceedings of a seminar, 23rd March 1988
- Author:
- CHADDOCK Judith A
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health and Social Services. Social Services Insp
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 40p., + appendices, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Proceedings of a seminar which considered the implications of informal care and recommendations for future policy and practice.
The impact of formal care on informal care for people over 75 in England
- Authors:
- SALONIKI Eirini, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 18
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
This study explores how formal care provision in the form of home help affects the receipt of informal care from within and outside the household for people over 75 years old. The study uses data from the British Household Panel Survey between 1991 and 2009. The study uses a number of instruments to address the potential endogeneity of formal care. It examines whether instrumentation with a ‘spatial lag’ formal care utilisation variable is possible in the informal-formal care setting. Additionally it takes advantage of the care eligibility criteria, as set out in the Care and Support Act (2014), and uses them as a proxy for years prior to 2014 to construct a novel care eligibility instrument, relying on the non-linearity property of this indicator. The results find a negative and statistically significant effect of formal care on informal care from within the household, suggesting a substantial degree of substitutability between these two modes of care. With regards to informal care provided from outside the household, although the effect is still negative, the degree of substitutability is substantially smaller and mostly not statistically significant. These findings support current discussions and policies towards the implementation of an integrated care system where services designed to meet not only the individual’s needs but also give the person the necessary control and access over these services. The findings also provide grounds for estimates of savings in the cost of informal care enabled by spending on formal care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Informal carers and private law
- Author:
- SLOAN Brian
- Publisher:
- Hart Publishing
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 290p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Every day, large numbers of altruistic individuals, in the absence of any legal duty, provide substantial services for elderly and disabled people. In doing so, many such informal carers suffer financial and other disadvantages. This book considers the scope for a "private law" approach to rewarding, supporting or compensating carers, an increasingly vital topic in the context of an ageing population and the need for savings in public expenditure. Adopting a comparative approach, the book explores the recognition of the informal carer and his or her relationship with the care recipient within diverse fields of private law, from unjust enrichment to succession. Aspects of the analysis include the importance of a promise of a reward from the care recipient and the appropriate measure of any remedy. In considering the potential for expansion of a "private law" approach for carers, the book addresses the fundamental and controversial question of the price of altruism. Contents include: Introduction; property law claims: proprietary estoppel and constructive trusts; statutory enforcement of testamentary promises; unjust enrichment; family provision; ‘inter vivos’ provision on the breakdown of caring relationships; undue influence; and conclusion.
Services for supporting family carers of older dependent people in Europe: characteristics, coverage and usage: the trans-European survey report
- Authors:
- EUROFAMCARE CONSORTIUM, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- EUROFAMCARE
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 260p.
- Place of publication:
- Hamburg
A major concern of the EUROFAMCARE study is to analyse services for supporting family carers of older people in Europe. The needs and demands for services from the family carers perspective were obtained by face-to-face interviews with family carers at their home. The purpose of the Service Providers' Survey was to add the views of service providers to those of the family carers. The intention of further analysis is to describe possible differences in the views on service provision between those persons who receive help and those who offer it, i.e. completing the picture of two different views on help services and their existence, familiarity, availability, usage and acceptability. Furthermore the current and future perspectives on challenges concerning the services provided for carers of older people was conducted, to identify gaps in service provision and to show examples of good practice through the eyes of the providers.