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Carers and the management of financial assets in later life
- Authors:
- ARSKEY Hilary, et al
- Publisher:
- Social Policy Research Unit. University of York
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This exploratory review highlights the growing importance and complexity of asset management, and the information needs of older people and their carers. The study aimed to: explore professional stakeholders' views about problems and issues regarding carers' roles in managing older people's finances; review the research on carers' involvement in managing older people's financial assets; identify sources of advice and information about managing someone else's affairs; and to evaluate the potential of existing data sets for investigating carers' involvement in managing older people's assets. Research methods included: guided interviews with professionals from 12 organisations; a literature search from electronic databases; advice and information was identified by searching the internet sites of 80 organisations; and seven datasets with information on individual's financial circumstances were identified. The key findings of the research are summarised.
Health informatics for older people: a review of ICT facilitated integrated care for older people
- Authors:
- LOADER Brian D., HARDEY Mike, KEEBLE Leigh
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 17(1), January 2008, pp.46-53.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Growing demands on welfare services, arising from expanding populations of older people in many countries, has led policy makers to consider the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) as a means to transform the cost-effective delivery of health and social care. The evidence for these claims is examined by reporting the main findings of a review of worldwide published literature documenting the adoption of health informatics applications to improve health and social care for older people. It focuses around two dimensions of the UK government's programme for ‘modernising’ public services, which emphasise the use of ICTs to facilitate the sharing of health and social services information and its potential to foster person-centred approaches to independent living. Findings suggest that there is little evidence that these dimensions have been realised in practice and the perceived incompatibility between them is more likely to produce expensive and ineffective health informatics outcomes.
Needs and preferences of informal caregivers regarding outpatient care for the elderly: a systematic literature review
- Authors:
- PLOTHNER M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- BMC Geriatrics, 19(82), 2019, Online only
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Ltd
Background: Informal caregivers are an essential pillar for ensuring and maintaining the outpatient care of the frail elderly. Due to demographic changes, including an increase in the number of people in need of care as well as changing social structures (full-time employment of women, increasing number of single households, etc.) these informal care structures are fraught by considerable challenges. To support and facilitate informal caregivers in their role of nursing, it is important to identify their preferences, needs, and thus create a preference-oriented system. Methods: A systematic review was conducted to identify preferences and needs regarding the organization of informal care. The database searches were performed by using EMBASE, Scopus and Dimdi. Results: A total of 44 studies were included in the present review. Studies from 17 different countries provide broad international perspectives. Besides the preferences for long-term care structure, the following four principal topics were identified: (1) informational needs; (2) support needs; (3) organizational needs, and (4) needs for societal recognition. Conclusion: To meet the current challenges in the outpatient or home-based care of elders, it is essential to strengthen the role of informal caregivers. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt and further develop informal care structures according to the needs of informal caregivers. However, demographic, financial and cultural aspects of each country need to be considered as these may influence the preferences and needs of informal caregivers. (Edited publisher abstract)
‘Add info and stir’: an institutional ethnographic scoping review of family care-givers’ information work
- Author:
- DALMER Nicole K.
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, early cite 8 October 2018,
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Family care-givers are increasingly expected to find, understand and use information to meet the complex needs of older adults in their care. A significant number of studies, however, continue to report that care-givers’ information needs are unmet. Following Arksey and O'Malley's scoping review framework, this study examined 72 articles for the range and extent of available research on the information work done by family care-givers of community-dwelling older adults living with dementia. To untangle the complex relationship between information and care, this scoping review maps out (a) the ways scholarly literature conceptualises the informational components of family care-givers’ work and (b) the degree to which scholarly research acknowledges these components as work. An institutional ethnography inflection enhanced the scoping review framework, enabling the privileging of lived experiences, questioning of assumptions of language used, attending to authors’ positioning and highlighting care-givers’ information work made invisible throughout the processes of academic research. (Edited publisher abstract)
Identifying and understanding the health and social care needs of older adults with multiple chronic conditions and their caregivers: a scoping review
- Authors:
- MCGILTON Katherine S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- BMC Geriatrics, 18(231), 2018, Online only
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Ltd
Background: As the population is aging, the number of persons living with multiple chronic conditions (MCC) is expected to increase. This review seeks to answer two research questions from the perspectives of older adults with MCC, their caregivers and their health care providers (HCPs): 1) What are the health and social care needs of community-dwelling older adults with MCC and their caregivers? and 2) How do social and structural determinants of health impact these health and social care needs? Methods: We conducted a scoping review guided by a refinement of the Arksey & O’Malley framework. Articles were included if participants were 55 years or older and have at least two chronic conditions. We searched 7 electronic databases. The data were summarized using thematic analysis. Results: Thirty-six studies were included in this review: 28 studies included participants with MCC; 12 studies included HCPs; 5 studies included caregivers. The quality of the studies ranged from moderate to good. Five main areas of needs were identified: need for information; coordination of services and supports; preventive, maintenance and restorative strategies; training for older adults, caregivers and HCPs to help manage the older adults’ complex conditions; and the need for person-centred approaches. Structural and social determinants of health such as socioeconomic status, education and access influenced the needs of older adults with MCC. Conclusion: The review highlights that most of the needs of older adults with MCC focus on lack of access to information and coordination of care. The main structural and social determinants that influenced older adults’ needs were their level of education/health literacy and their socioeconomic status. (Edited publisher abstract)
The hidden store: older people's contributions to rural communities
- Author:
- LE MESURIER Nick
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 57p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report considers the characteristics of older people in the English countryside and the experience of Age Concern in providing services for and with them. It reviews the literature on older people in rural communities, and finds that, where they are mentioned at all, it is usually between the lines and in the margins of most studies of rural society. This in spite of the fact that the English countryside contains a higher proportion of older people than urban areas, and that many voluntary services which help to maintain social capital in the countryside are run for and by older people themselves.
People who fund their own care and support: a review of the literature and research into the existing provision of information and advice
- Authors:
- HUDSON Bob, HENWOOD Melanie
- Publisher:
- Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 40, 30p.
- Place of publication:
- London
There are growing numbers of mainly older people who make their own arrangements for care and support services without the direct involvement of their local council. Data suggest that at any given time no more than one in five people aged 75 or over in a particular council area make contact with the council and only around one in six receive council funded support. Both the ‘Putting People First’ programme and the Government's Green Paper on the future funding of social care outline the importance of supporting the whole population to stay healthy and active, and also to be advised in making the right choices with respect to the meeting their care and support needs. Yet despite this, relatively little is known about those who fund their own care and support. This report, commissioned by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, the Social Care Institute for Excellence and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, reviews a range of literature across policy, research and development, focusing on or relevant to people who fund their own care and support. The second part of the report looks at the key national organisations and charities involved in the provision of information and advice in social care and how it addresses the needs of people who are self-funding.
Older people in Wales: their transport and mobility: a literature review
- Authors:
- WINDLE Gill, BURHOLT Vanessa
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 4(2), August 2003, pp.28-35.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Findings from research show that older people regard owning a car as a means to independence and mobility. Car ownership is considered the norm in rural areas. However, within Wales, older people are more likely to live in rural areas and not own private transport. Mobility, hearing and sight impairments are more likely in older populations, rendering the use of public transport problematic. Difficulties include getting on and off buses, reading timetables and communicating with service personnel.
What counts as evidence? The communication of information about older people between health and social care professionals
- Authors:
- POWELL Jackie, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 21(3), 2003, pp.1-11.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Draws on a study to provide an evidence base for strategies and effectiveness of the transfer of information about older people between health and social care practitioners at the health and social care interface. Reports on the development of a systematic approach to the review of the related research literature and presents some key findings. Goes on to discuss some methodological issues arising from a review covering both health and social care research. By locating this systematic review within the wider debate on evidence-based practice, considers the nature and scope of this form of evidence alongside other forms of evidence and their use in professional practice. Concludes with some observations regarding the relevance of the findings from this study for both practice and further research.
Researching ageing and later life: the practice of social gerontology
- Editors:
- JAMIESON Anne, VICTOR Christina
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 275p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Addresses the methodological challenges entailed in the study of the process of ageing and life course changes as well as the experience of being old. The book focuses on the theory and practice of doing research using a wide range of examples and case studies. Contents include: using existing sources; creating new data; the roles and responsibilities of the researcher.