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Diversity in older age: Gypsies and Travellers
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 7
- Place of publication:
- London
This review summarises findings from selected literature and statistics on older Gypsies and Travellers. It is one of a series of rapid reviews commissioned by Age UK into the diversity that exists in the older population and the inequalities faced by specific groups of older people. Areas covered include: demographics, health, housing, and family and community. (Edited publisher abstract)
Diversity in older age: older lesbian, gay and bi-sexual people and older transgender people
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- London
This review summarises findings from selected literature and statistics on older lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender people. It is one of a series of rapid reviews commissioned by Age UK into the diversity that exists in the older population and the inequalities faced by specific groups of older people. Areas covered include: demographics, relationships and communities, financial wellbeing, physical and mental health, housing and neighbourhoods, care and support and end of life care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Older people from black and minority ethnic groups: selected readings
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A selective bibliography on older people from black and minority ethnic groups. The references are drawn from the Ageinfo, the database of ageing and older age from the Centre for Policy on Ageing. A reference and short descriptive abstract is included for each reference.
Extra-care housing: selected readings
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication lists selected readings from journals and reports/reviews drawn from material held on the Centre for Policy on Ageing ‘Ageinfo database of ageing and older people. It is sorted chronologically from 1975 to 2009.
Older people living in the community: nutritional needs, barriers and interventions: a literature review
- Authors:
- JONES Jacklyn, et al
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 63p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This literature review focuses on the nutritional needs of older adults living in the community, the barriers to them meeting their nutritional needs and interventions which may be successful in improving nutritional intake. Good nutrition plays a vital role in the wellbeing and health of older people but also helps delay and reduce the risk of developing disease. The aims of the review were to: identify the nutritional needs of older people living in the community and barriers to them meeting their nutritional requirements, identify effective dietary and other interventions, including interventions to improve food access for older people (including cooking clubs, delivered meals/food etc) and use of supplements (of which vitamin D may be one), to improve health outcomes (including nutritional status) of this population group. The review focused on the nutritional needs of older people living in the community in Scotland and in particular those people who are at risk of nutritional deficiencies. Those chronically ill with degenerative disease (e.g. cancer, dementia or Parkinson’s disease) were not included. Literature published between 1998 and 2008 was reviewed along with key relevant publications prior to 1998.
Older people living in the community – nutritional needs barriers and interventions: a literature review
- Authors:
- JONES Jacklyn, et al
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Good nutrition plays a vital role in the well-being and health of older people but also helps delay and reduce the risk of developing disease. This literature review focuses on the nutritional needs of older adults living in the community, the barriers to them meeting their nutritional needs, and interventions which may be successful in improving nutritional intake. Main findings are presented.
Older women and domestic violence in Scotland: update 2008
- Author:
- SCOTT Marsha
- Publisher:
- Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report provides an update on literature published since an earlier research project, Older Women and Domestic Violence in Scotland, conducted in 2003-2004 and published in June 2004. The original project was commissioned by Health Scotland and carried out by a team from the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR). This review reports on literature published between 2003 and 2007 and reflects a 'scanning of the horizon' rather than a systematic literature review and is selective and indicative rather than comprehensive and conclusive. The search strategy identified work by key authors and publications from the original review as well as articles identified using the usual key words. Analysis of the literature rested on two themes: findings related to key themes from the previous research, and findings that could or should inform policy and service design.
Hearing and sight loss: a review of the issues affecting older people
- Authors:
- HODGES Liz, DOUGLAS Graeme
- Publisher:
- Thomas Pocklington Trust
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper describes the outcome of a literature review and workshop which examined the key recent published literature in the UK and the views of those with specialist expertise in older people with hearing and sight loss. The study focuses specifically on those who have lost either vision or hearing or both in later life and whose chief means of communication has been through speech.
Older refugees in the UK: a literature review and interviews with refugees
- Authors:
- CONNELLY Naomi, et al
- Publisher:
- Refugee Council
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 64p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
The Older Refugees Programme has been a two year joint programme to highlight the issues and concerns that older refugees have about their circumstances and daily lives in the UK. This working paper combines a Literature Review with the Analysis of Interviews with older refugees. The Literature Review provides a comprehensive overview of previous research on issues relating to older refugees’ experience in the UK, and identifies a series of research questions which are worthy of consideration for further research in this important area.
My home life: quality of life in care homes: a review of the literature
- Author:
- NATIONAL CARE HOMES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FORUM
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 192p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
My Home Life is a new initiative aimed at improving the quality of life of those who are living, dying, visiting and working in care homes for older people. This review aims to find existing best practices in care homes and promote care homes as a positive option for older people. The project is working to help improve the quality of life in care home, through the development of a range of resources, events, practice development initiatives and other activities.