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Implementing direct payments
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 introduced direct payments, allowing some disabled people to purchase the provision of their own support. In 1997, a pilot project was established in Norfolk, to consider the implementation of direct payments in a largely rural county. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation supported the pilot scheme by funding a researcher to assist with an evaluation of the project.
Getting the right break: inspection of short term breaks for people with physical disabilities and older people
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Letter accompanying national inspection report.
Getting the right break: inspection of short term breaks for people with physical disabilities and older people
- Author:
- FRUIN David
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of an inspection of short term break provision for disabled people and older people in seven local authorities broadly representative of all English councils. Contains sections on: improving services; expectations; responsive services; service delivery; referral, assessment and care management; and developing and managing short term break services.
Why benefit helpline needs help
- Author:
- VAUX Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.5.00, 2000, p.31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks whether Benefits Agency's Minimum Income Guarantee Helpline aimed at promoting income support, offering good advice on claims and entitlement.
The non-competitive activity book
- Author:
- DYNES Robin
- Publisher:
- Speechmark
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 140p.
- Place of publication:
- Milton Keynes
A practical handbook with 100 non-competitive activities that can be used across a variety of ages, individuals or groups. The material can be used with people with learning disabilities, mental health problems, physical disabilities and older people. Activities are in the following sections: Starters and pairing up games; Movement; Perception; Cognitive stimulation; and Endings. The contents are photocopiable. As the activities are non-competitive means that people can become involved without a fear of failure or disappointment. A useful resource for day centres, hospitals and care homes.
A right to be heard: report of the Age Concern Wakefield District Talk-Back Project; December 1996 - March 1999
- Author:
- WILLIS Jenny
- Editor:
- TITLEY Jane.
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 30p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of a project developed in Wakefield to give frail elderly people a voice in the planning of community care. Participants' views on daily life and community care were surveyed. Report describes the methodology, findings and evaluation of the project.
Why the government must ring the changes on charges
- Author:
- WRIGHT Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(4), June 2000, pp.20-23.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Welcomes the Government's announcement that it will amend the Care Standards Bill to enable it to issue enforceable guidelines on charging for care services. Describes some of the adverse consequences on service users when councils charge for essential services and the safeguards that should be included in any national guidance.
The psychosocial preferences of older adults: a pilot examination of content and structure
- Authors:
- CARPENTER Brian D., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 40(3), June 2000, pp.335-348.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This study examined the content and structure of psychosocial preferences in older adults using the statistical technique known as concept mapping. Results suggest two underlying dimensions to psychosocial preferences (Enrichment-self-maintenance and extrapersonal-interpersonal) and six distinct content domains (social contact, growth activities, leisure activities, self-dominion, support aids, and caregivers and care). Both the dimensions and the content domains provide valuable information for the construction of psychosocial preference instruments. They also might assist formal and informal caregivers in tailoring their interventions to provide individualized care that enhances quality of life for older adults.
Views of elderly people on living wills: interview study
- Authors:
- SCHIFF Rebekah, RAJKUMAR Chakravarthi, BULPITT Christopher
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 17.6.00, 2000, pp.1640-1641.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Living wills or advance statements record people's healthcare wishes in case they are unable to contribute to a decision concerning their health care in the future, either because of mental incapacity or because physical disability prevents communication. Elderly people are often in this position owing to illnesses such as dementia and strokes that cause dysphasia. This study aimed to determine the knowledge of elderly inpatients in the United Kingdom on living wills and their healthcare choices should they write such a will.
A place for support: new policies for informal carers in long-term programmes
- Author:
- SCHUNK Michaela
- Journal article citation:
- Benefits, 28, April 2000, pp.22-25.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Reviews policy trends for informal carers which have been implemented in various countries between 1996 - 1998. The article focuses on respite care and direct payments for carers of older ill and disabled adults.