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It's good to be part of things: working with older people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- WERTHEIMER Alison
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 78p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication is intended to assist and encourage local Age Concern groups to develop services and activities for older people with learning disabilities and their older carers. It explores common attitudes, myths and misconceptions about people with learning disabilities.
Leicestershire boost for black elders
- Author:
- PARKE Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- LGIU Equalities News, 21, July 1994, p.10.
Leicestershire County Council serves a multi-cultural area with 11 per cent of the population belonging to Asian and African Caribbean communities. Reports on what the SSD has been doing.
Asian and black elders and community care: a survey of care providers
- Authors:
- WALKER Reg, AHMAD Waqar I. U.
- Journal article citation:
- New Community, 20(4), July 1994, pp.635-646.
- Publisher:
- Community Relations Commission
Reports on a survey of care providers' perspectives on the implications of community care policy for black and Asian elders in Bradford. Argues that while community care in theory offers opportunities for ethnic minorities that pressures on Asian and black carers and the limitations of the ethnic minority voluntary sector must be recognised.
Rhetoric into reality
- Author:
- WILLCOCK Kim
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In conjunction with "Homeless Campaign", a six year programme of service development, Help the Aged has developed a user focused approach to action research which involves making changes in practice to resolve problems identified through the experiences of users of the services. This report explains the action research, illustrates it with three case studies, and summarises the lessons learned.
Changing lives for good: Help the Aged Homeless Campaign conference, April 1999
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
As well as the results of a survey by NOP, commissioned by Help the Aged, on public attitudes to homeless older people, conference received papers from Housing Associations Charitable Trust, CRISIS, National Homeless Alliance, Salvation Army, Catholic Housing Aid Society, and St. Mungo's. Workshops discussed outreach, resettlement, prevention, multiple needs and user involvement. The conference report concludes with the ten action points that will be used to measure the progress of the Homeless Campaign over the next year.
Family support and community care: a study of South Asian older people
- Authors:
- BOWES Alison, DAR Naira, SRIVASTAVA Archana
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Central Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 97p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Explores the views of older South Asian people about their support needs, in the context of a review of existing provision. Gaps between the needs of older people and their carers and the kind of support available are identified, and ways of bridging these gaps are suggested.
Accessibility and care in a rural area - the case of Tewkesbury Borough
- Author:
- MOSELEY Malcolm
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 14(2), 1996, pp.19-25.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
In rural areas, the limited availability of appropriate public transport and the increasing geographic concentration of many service outlets, pose serious difficulties for those social service client groups which exhibit low levels of car ownership. Considers the transport needs of elderly and disabled people and carers in a largely rural district of Tewkesbury. It also establishes the range of transport potentially available to them, whether in the statutory, commercial or voluntary sectors. A holistic approach is advocated, both in researching such a need and provision and the planning and management of strategies to improve accessibility. A central dilemma is addressed, whether to have central co-ordination along 'brokerage' lines or the devolution of decisions to local managers?
Planning for the elderly: achieving a balance of care; designing successful studies in joint health and local authority planning
- Authors:
- McCLENAHAN John, et al
- Publisher:
- Kings Fund
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 45p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes work done by Arthur Anderson & Co. Management Consultants over a period of years into components which make up successful joint planning exercises. The five projects AAMC were involved with were :the DHSS Operational Research Service Balance of Care Model, pilot trials of that model in Wiltshire and East Sussex, Audit Commission value for money work in SSDs, Bath Health District, and Kingston and Esher Health District.