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The European Union and older people with disability
- Author:
- EUROLINK AGE
- Publisher:
- Eurolink Age
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 19p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Short booklet setting out what the European Union is doing for older, disabled people. Explains how individuals and organisations acting on their behalf can take advantage of opportunities which exist. Includes comprehensive list of organisations.
It's in the definition
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.3.03, 2003, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
In 1999, an Appeal Court case ruling in the Coughlan suggested that continuing care for older and disabled people should in many cases, be paid for by the NHS. Looks at how, four years later, the confusion continues.
Equipment failure
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.8.02, 2002, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at a recent report by the Audit Commission, 'Fully Equipped 2002', which found that service users face long delays for equipment of often poor quality, while many are excluded due to stringent eligibility criteria.
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.
Ombudsman section
- Author:
- KIRKHAM Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 25(3), 2003, pp.267-275.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Provides a recent example of the ability of the Health Service Ombudsmen to improve and add to not only the provision of redress for individual citizens, but also the accountability and effectiveness of administrative governance in the UK.
NHS funding for long term care: second report session 2002-2003
- Author:
- HEALTH SERVICE OMBUDSMAN
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 57p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document contains the results of four investigations into complaints about the way in which health authorities set and applied their eligibility criteria for NHS funding for the continuing care of older and disabled people. The report recommends a review of the national guidance on eligibility for continuing NHS healthcare, making it much clearer in new guidance the situations when the NHS must provide funding and those where it is left to the discretion of NHS bodies locally. This guidance may need to include detailed definitions of terms used and case examples of patterns of need likely to mean NHS funding should be provided.
A little help
- Author:
- DELARGY Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Roof, March 2003, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Shelter
Looks at the new Supporting People policy, and the implications of the new funding structure for service delivery for the most vulnerable.
Working together on care and repair: a strategic view
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive Development Department
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office/Scotland. Scottish Executive Development Department
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 32p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Care and repair helps people to live independently in the community, complementing community care services. It is a service which supports many national and local objectives in housing, health and social care. Crucially it is highly valued by service users, demonstrated most obviously by their willingness to invest significant mounts of their own money in its services.
Health and long term care use trajectory for older disabled women
- Author:
- MEHDIZADEH Shala A.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 42(3), June 2002, pp.304-313.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Examines health and long-term care use trajectories of a sample of chronically disabled older women in the USA eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid by exploring their use data in order to understand and anticipate the increasing demand on the health and long-term care delivery systems as aging female baby boomers reach age 65 and older. A long-term care career was established for patients beginning with receiving long-term care in the community, followed by a transition stage in which care was received in the community and in a nursing home, and finally by a stage at which they entered and remained in a nursing home. As patients proceeded along their long-term care career and their health and disability status worsened, there appeared a clear shift in the kind of care needed from hospital and home care to nursing home care. There was also a shift in the major payer, from Medicare to Medicaid. As the baby boomers age, a much larger number of women will be disabled and need health and long-term care services.
Care, courts and costs
- Author:
- SCHWEHR Belinda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.3.99, 1999, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks whether the courts would force local authorities to provide care for elderly and disabled people irrespective of the cost, or should they support the councils' plea of a lack of funds.