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Boundaries of roles and responsibilities in housing with care schemes
- Authors:
- PANNELL Jenny, BLOOD Imogen
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 20p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This article considers the boundaries, roles and responsibilities of housing with care (HWC) services. Different organisations provide a range of services while external agencies guide, regulate and inspect what they do. Since there is no single model of HWC, individual dwellings and schemes vary enormously in size and scale, location, services and cost. They are run by private companies and not-for-profit housing associations and charities; and there are significant variations in provision and policy context across the UK. The article highlights contested roles and responsibilities in HWC concerning issues around: decisions to move in and allocations; the different expectations residents, families, providers and professionals have of HWC; buildings and facilities provision, management and maintenance, health and safety; promoting well-being and preventing exclusion of frailer residents; safeguarding and duty of care; managing increasing care and support needs; whether HWC offers a ‘home for life’.
Switched on to telecare: providing health and care support through home-based telecare monitoring in the UK and the US: ... conference session at the 10th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 16-19 2006, Orlando, Florida
- Author:
- KINSELLA Audrey
- Publisher:
- Care Services Improvement Partnership. Health and Social Care Change Agent Team
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Housing LIN Report - Providing Health and Care Support Through Home-based Telecare Monitoring in the UK and the US - A collection of the papers presented at the World Multi-Conference on Systematics, Cybernetics and Informatics, chaired by Jeremy Porteus, National Lead, Housing and Telecare Networks, Care Services Improvement Partnership, Department of Health, London, UK. The Housing LIN brings together groups of senior staff within local authorities, Primary Care Trusts, Registered Social Landlords and the private sector interested in forging closer partnerships in delivering housing with extra care solutions for older people.
Team up for a better result
- Author:
- NACIF Ana Paula
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Chronicle, 20.07.06, 2006, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Emap Business
The author reports on how Barnet LBC, faced with a large elderly population linked with the private sector to get the homes it needed. Service users were also involved in the selection process of the private sector organisation.
Room for manoeuvre
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.10.95, 1995, p.31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The British Federation of Care Home Proprietors (BFCHP) is unhappy about some local authorities' new guidelines for homes. Asks whether local authorities are intent on imposing a single room only rule for older people in residential care.
Admission to residential care: social workers and the private sector in Suffolk
- Authors:
- PHILLIPS Judith, DAVIES Martin
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Analyses the role of the person who is acting on behalf of an elderly person requiring residential care in choosing between private or local authority care.
A guide to old people's residential homes and nursing homes in Oxfordshire: 1988
- Author:
- OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL
- Publisher:
- Oxfordshire Community Health Council
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 88p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Directory of private and local authority homes including details of charges, facilities, staffing, residents rights.
Supply-side review of the UK specialist housing market and why it is failing older people
- Author:
- HARDING Andrew J.E.
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 21(2), 2018, pp.41-50.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a supply-side review of policies and practices that impact on the shortage of supply in the contemporary specialist housing market for older people in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: The review is based on a review of academic literature, policy documents, reports and other sources. Findings: There is a critical conflict between the key social purpose of specialist housing (i.e. living independent of socially provided care) and the values that underpin and ultimately limit the quantity of units in both the social and private sector. In the social sector, government policies prohibit rather than encourage local authorities and housing associations from increasing specialist housing stock. The nature of leasehold tenures in the private sector tends to commodify not only housing stock but also those who use it and therefore acts to instrumentalise housing supply in favour of the profit motive and the focus on the person and her or his needs is largely ignored. Originality/value: While the shortage of specialist housing is well known, this paper is unique in that it provides a comprehensive and critical supply-side review of the factors that have created such conditions. (Publisher abstract)
The homecare deficit: a report on the funding of older people's homecare across the United Kingdom
- Author:
- UNITED KINGDOM HOMECARE ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- United Kingdom Homecare Association
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 56
- Place of publication:
- Wallington
Using data obtained under freedom of information legislation, this report provides a snapshot of the prices paid for older people's homecare by councils in Great Britain and the Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland during a sample week in September 2014. Visual and numerical data are included to make comparisons at a national, regional and local authority level. The report provides information on the average price councils paid for homecare for older people; the numbers of councils paying their local providers sufficient to comply with the National Minimum wage (including careworkers' travel time); and those paying a UK or London Living Wage. It also highlights the risks associated with under-funded care such as poorer terms and conditions, insufficient training for the workforce, resulting in problems in retaining good quality care workers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Public policy and private provisions: changes in residential care from 1991 to 2001
- Authors:
- HAYNES Philip, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 14(6), November 2006, pp.499-507.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This research examined changes in the number of care homes and their residents in the UK between the 1991 and 2001 Censuses. Local-authority-owned provision universally declined in this period, but changes in private residential and nursing homes were far more varied. Some parts of Britain experienced a growth in this market, in particular Scotland. Regions which were traditionally linked with greater numbers of retired people in their populations declined in their private residential home markets (e.g. the South West and South East). Wales experienced a regional decline that was greater than most English regions. Using additional Department of Health data, it was possible to estimate which local authority areas in England were exporting state-funded supported residents to homes out of their area. Most of these authorities were in urban areas and the highest rates of exporting were from Inner London boroughs. Political control and average property prices were explored as possible independent variables influencing the percentage rate of decline in homes in a local authority area. It appeared that Conservative authorities experienced a more rapid decline in government-owned homes than those run by Labour, but the results were not statistically significant, suggesting that local politics was a not a key influence on the trend. Average property prices did not affect all areas of the country, but were found to have a negative and significant association with percentage rates of decline in care homes in both Wales and London.
‘What matters is what works’? How discourses of modernization have both silenced and limited debate on domiciliary care for older people
- Author:
- SCOURFIELD Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 26(1), February 2006, pp.5-30.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Policy statements about the care of vulnerable older people repeatedly emphasize the desirability of keeping people at home. An enduring problem in implementing this strategy is the ongoing crisis within the quasi-market in domiciliary care. The government announced in 2004 that it wanted a new vision for adult social care. In such circumstances, it could be argued that, in order to achieve home care services that are stable, flexible and better placed to integrate more effectively with health agencies, local authorities should significantly expand in-house provision. This article discusses how discourses of modernization exclude ideas that imply an expansion of directly provided social care. Such discourses have so much invested in the shedding of what it regards as outmoded ‘welfarist’ baggage, they are blind to proposals that could improve the lives of older, vulnerable citizens.