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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.
A study of factors in the life satisfaction of the elderly with disabilities
- Author:
- LEE Ick Seop
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy and Social Work, 5, March 2001, pp.49-59.
- Publisher:
- Japan College of Social Work
Examines the relationship between social, support and life satisfaction of older people with disabilities in Korea in terms of the direct effect and type of disability. Topics covered include financial security, emotional support and quality of life considerations.
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.
Age Concern's comments on the consultation paper "Support for disabled people"
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Age Concern supports the government's intention to carry out a review of the welfare system in the consultation paper "Support for disabled people". However, the organisation expresses concern that this paper contains measures that continue the gradual shift from national insurance to means tested benefits without this being clearly stated and discussed.
Maintaining functional independence in elderly adults: the roles of health status and financial resources in predicting home modifications and use of mobility equipment
- Authors:
- MATHIESON Kathleen, KRONENFELD Jennie Jacobs, KEITH Verna M.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 42(1), February 2002, pp.24-31.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Investigates whether health status and financial resources were important predictors. Participants were identified from the National Survey of Self-Care and Aging a nationally representative sample of noninstitutionalized U.S. adults aged 65 and older. Need and enabling characteristics were used to predict home modifications and equipment use in multinomial logistic analysis, controlling for predisposing characteristics. Although several health-status (need) variables had significant, direct effects on functional adaptations, the effects of ADL limitations were diminished at higher levels of impairment. Among the financial (enabling) variables, subjective income measures and supplemental insurance had significant, direct effects on functional adaptations. Promotion of functional adaptations among elderly people may benefit from both a proactive approach that targets elders with few limitations and a consideration of financial factors in addition to health status.
Geographic patterns of change of benefit claimants
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Using data from the Department for Work and Pensions, this study explores changing patterns of claim rates of Income Support (IS) and income-based Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA-IB) in England between 1995 and 2000. It carries forward earlier work using administrative data and demonstrates the power of such data in measuring changing fortunes over time for different area units and claimant groups throughout England. Following the recession in the early 1990s the British economy enjoyed a period of sustained economic growth. The impact of this recovery has, however, not been shared equally by different groups, whether these are defined geographically by area, or by claimant group category. The study looked at changes in claim rates by claimant characteristics (lone parents, unemployed, 'disabled and others', those aged 60 and over, families with children, and claimants who are in their fifties) and by location (Government Offices for the Regions (GOs), local authority districts and wards).
Everyone's a winner
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.2.00, 2000, p.26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a project in Torbay, where people are visited in their own homes to ensure they claim benefits.
An overview of the Supporting People Programme
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Government's Supporting People Programme aims to redirect current funding for services to help people live independently, so that local authorities and their partners can plan and deliver support services in a more consistent and accountable way. Presents finds from a review of the programme considering how it strengthens support for independent living or whether there are gaps in the proposed provision.
Older people
- Author:
- MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 2000, 2000, pp.30-32.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
The link between growing old and declining income is well documented. Looks at research which highlights other factors than can increase older people's poverty and feelings of social exclusion.
The Human Rights Act: what are the implications for older people?; a Help the Aged seminar at Westminster on 13th September 2000
- Author:
- HELP THE AGED
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes a Help the Aged seminar held at Westminster on the thirteenth of September, 2000. Delegates agreed on the need for a greater awareness of the provisions of the Human Rights Act, and extensive training with specific guidelines for those working with older people. Topics addressed included; key concepts; implications of the Act; how the Act can help in practical situations; the role of Help the Aged.