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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.
Hang on to your assets
- Author:
- STRONG Susannah
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 7.7.94, 1994, p.16.
Looks at the activities of the Continuing Care Conference - a think tank on the issues of funding long term care which draws together building societies, insurance companies, voluntary groups and private providers.
Quality of life in continuing-care
- Authors:
- CHALLINER Yvonne, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 3(1), February 1994, pp.25-35.
The aim of this study was to assess and compare quality of life, quality of care, and dependency of residents in five different types of long-term care establishment for the elderly.
Funding for long-term care
- Author:
- THOMAS-BELL Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 3(4), December 1994, pp.52-56.
The government has announced recently that older people will no longer be kept in hospital as a matter of course, and Care in the Community programmes offer little comfort to people who have experienced its inadequacies. Discusses concern over what will happen to those in need of long-term, who do not have the resources to obtain the care they require.
Draft dodging?
- Authors:
- ROWDEN Ray, KUBISA Tad
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.9.94, 1994, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Government draft guidance on continuing care highlighted differences between social services and the NHS. The authors put their points of view.
Allocation of care and services in an area-based system for long-term care of elderly and disabled people
- Author:
- LAGERGREN Marten
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 14(3), September 1994, pp.357-381.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
In order to analyse the allocation of public care services in the city of Solna, Sweden, and how they changed in response to a rapid growth of the number of elderly people, a comparison was made between two surveys, 1985 and 1991. The analysis showed that older and non-married persons were more likely to become clients of the public care system. Institutionalisation was also more common among the non-married - especially for men. Reductions in institutionalisation had most impact on very old, non-married men. Functional disability and living arrangements were the most important variables in explaining the allocation of home help in domiciliary care and sheltered housing.
A postal survey of the quality of long-term institutional care
- Authors:
- CHALLINER Yvonne, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 9(8), August 1994, pp.619-625.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports the development of an 18-item postal questionnaire intended as a cheap, reliable and valid method for quality evaluation of long-term institutional care. It is argued that the questionnaire, able to detect differences within and between the different sectors of care provision, has potential for setting national and local sector norms for quality care, and could be used as a screening tool for individual establishments and inspectorate bodies prior to more detailed internal or external audit.
De-institutionalization and ageing: some results from monitoring the effects in an area-based system of long-term care for elderly people and people with disabilities
- Author:
- LANGERGREN Marten
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 2(1), January 1994, pp.19-30.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper illustrates the usefulness of regular monitoring for an area-based system of long-term care for elderly people and people with a disability by presenting data which describes the combined effects of de-institutionalisation and population ageing. Data was collected between 1985 and 198 in Solna, Sweden by means of annual surveys involving registration of received services and assessment of needs and disability. The sample were all the residents of Solna, who, on the day of the survey were in receipt of long-term public medical and/or social services care from the public sector. Data was collected on demographic variables, actual and appropriate levels of care. The class of disability was based upon five different measures of disability. Reports changes in service provision and population over the four-year period.
A crisis in care: the future of family and state care for older people in the European Union
- Authors:
- McGLONE Francis, CRONIN Natalie
- Publisher:
- Family Policy Studies Centre
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 52p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report investigating Europe's looming crisis in care for older people. Argues that family and state care is in decline at the very moment when the number of people needing such care is increasing. Looks at disability and dependency; family care; the pressures of caring; support for carers in the European Union; the changing ability of the family to care; changing attitudes towards care; and European social policy. Also contains a chapter comparing social provision in the EC member states.
Length of stay of residents and patients in residential and nursing homes for elderly people
- Author:
- DARTON R.A.
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 12(3), 1994, pp.18-24.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
From 1st April 1993, local authorities have assessed applicants for public funding in independent residential and nursing homes. Transfer of social security funds was phased using length of stay and turnover information. Local Authority planners and care managers also need this information. Most studies have estimated the average length of stay for current residents, not the completed length of stay. This paper presents length of stay, turnover, source of admission and source of finance information collected in three local authorities in 1992, and discusses the policy implications.