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Funding long-term care for older people: lessons from other countries
- Authors:
- GLENDINNING Caroline, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 35p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
An evaluation of how other countries are devising fair and sustainable ways of funding long-term care for older people. Like the UK, many other countries are facing challenges in devising fair and sustainable ways of funding the long-term care needed by new generations of older people. While the challenges are similar, their responses are sometimes very different from our own. Nevertheless, their experiences can provide valuable lessons for the UK. This report draws on the experiences of long-term care funding – both the raising of revenue and the mechanisms by which it is allocated to services and allowances – in Australia, Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Scotland and the United States.
Choosing a care home
- Author:
- GOUDGE Mary V.
- Publisher:
- How To Books
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 175p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
As the age of the population is rising, so is the demand for homes where frail, elderly and others who are unable to look after themselves can be offered long term care. This text presents practical advice on how to plan this critically important move and ensure that it works well for all concerned.
Crisis what crisis?
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.09.04, 2004, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses the provision of free personal care in Scotland. Examines the figures and refutes the argument that the personal care policy is financially doomed. Argues that the cost of free personal care will be a small percentage of the total cost of care.
My generation
- Author:
- SMITH Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 1.6.04, 2004, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the future of older people's care where older people are likely to become increasingly demanding about the quality of their care.
Future shock
- Author:
- SMITH Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 25.5.04, 2004, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
In this article, the third of a four-part series looking at older people's care, the authors look at demands for choice in social care and asks how older people's care will be organised and who will pay for it.
The coming of age for assisted living care: new options for senior housing and social work practice
- Authors:
- SPITZER William J., NEUMAN Karen, HOLDEN Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 38(3), 2004, pp.21-45.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
As the United States experiences substantial growth in its population that is 65 years and older, development of safe housing and compassionate care for seniors is becoming a priority domestic issue. Assisted living is one of the fastest growing types of senior housing in the nation., attracting residents with a perceived combination of security, personal care services, less restrictive homelike environments and emphasis on independence, privacy and personal dignity. This article selectively reviews the broader literature on the aging American population and their need, assisted living as a senior housing and care option, the characteristics of this approach and the potential for social work practice. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
The changing world of long-term care: a state perspective
- Authors:
- APPLEBAUM Robert A., MEHDIZADEH Shahla A., STRAKER Jane K.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 16(1), 2004, pp.1-19.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Based on data from an eight year longitudinal study of Ohio's long-term care use patterns, this paper describes the changes now being experienced by this industry. Although Ohio has been a state with a heavy reliance on institutional services, the data suggest a change in how long-term care is provided in the state. Over the past eight years, despite an increasing disabled older population, nursing home occupancy rates have fallen from 92.5% to 83.5%. At the same time, in-home service and assisted living use has increased. Concludes by describing how such changes are likely to impact the system of the future.
Caring for older people in New Zealand: informal carers' experiences of the transition of care from the home to residential care
- Author:
- MILLLIGAN Christine
- Publisher:
- Lancaster University. Institute for Health Research
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 84p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Lancaster
This study investigated how informal carers can be most effectively supported through the longer-term transition of care for their spouse or close family member, in ways that can contribute to their own positive well-being. It is based on informal care-givers experiences of the transition of care for their elderly spouse or relative from the home to residential care in New Zealand. Participants included 20 carers, aged 54 to 83 years, who were asked to submit a written or audio account of their experiences using their own words. Findings revealed that informal carers can experience a range of physical, mental and emotional health problems both at the point of initial care transition and over the longer-term. The care transition is experienced by most informal carers as a period of grief, guilt and great unhappiness, not dissimilar to the experience of bereavement. Counselling and support mechanisms are needed to help informal carers over periods of transition. The hospice model could offer one framework of support. Good and mutually understandable levels of communication between health professionals and informal carers; informal carers and care staff; and between care staff within the care home are essential for an enhanced quality of care.
Dignity and older Europeans: final report of focus groups of Irish professionals
- Author:
- WEBSTER Robin
- Publisher:
- Dignity and Older Europeans Consortium
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
The right to, and the need for dignity is frequently cited in policy documents relating to the health and social care of older people. It is also expressed as an important value in professional codes and declarations of human rights. Yet concerns about the standards of care for a growing number of older people abound despite global ageing being a well-recognised phenomenon. Dignity is a complex concept that is difficult to define. If today’s, as well as tomorrow’s older people are to experience dignity in health and social care, as well as in other aspects of their lives, then these complexities need to be clarified.
Dignity and older Europeans: final report of focus groups of Slovakian professionals
- Author:
- KRAJCIK Stefan
- Publisher:
- Dignity and Older Europeans Consortium
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Dignity and Older Europeans is an international research project which brings together a range of academics, clinicians, and user groups to explore the concept of dignity in the lives of Older Europeans.