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Long-term care for the elderly: Britain and Germany compared
- Authors:
- EVERS Adalbert, HARDING Tessa
- Publisher:
- Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 28p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Can you afford to get old?
- Author:
- HARDING Tessa
- Journal article citation:
- Impact, 9, September 1994, p.13.
Argues that the Department of Health guidance on continuing care is in danger of generating the problems the USA is trying to solve.
Options for long-term care: economic, social and ethical choices
- Editors:
- HARDING Tessa, MEREDITH Barbara, WISTOW Gerald
- Publisher:
- HMSO/National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 152p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the debate around long term care and proposes a different approach to planning for future long term care. Concludes that the increase in expenditure needed over the next 30 years is not so great as to be a cause for alarm, though some reinvestment may be needed in the short term. Suggests that affordability is a question of political choice, rather than economic imperatives. Reviews the values underpinning long term care and proposes a broad based strategic approach. Looks at the issues from the point of view of disabled people as well as older people. Concludes with 2 chapters comparing the situation in the United States and in Germany.
Into the wilderness
- Author:
- HARDING Tessa
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.4.95, 1995, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The debate in Britain about long-term care policies echoes controversy in the USA where fear of growing old is compounded by fear of being too poor to afford care. Discusses the cost of needing long term care.
Rebuilding trust
- Author:
- HARDING Tessa
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.3.97, 1997, pp.2-3.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that older people have paid for the welfare state for all their working lives, but are being let down when they need services most. Sets out what a new government must do to restore their confidence.