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From hospital to home: the Outlands Project
- Authors:
- YOUNGER-ROSS Sue, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care Management and Planning, 1(5), December 1993, pp.151-160.
- Publisher:
- Pavillion
Research by Devon SSD in the early 1990s identified an overprovision of residential care in the county, with substantial numbers of older people in residential care who could have and would have wished to be in their own homes with a modest care package. Community Care Support Centres were established - multi-purpose, specialist resource bases to support multi-disciplinary rehabilitation and assessment of elderly people, and promoting the development of independent sector provision. The Outlands Project in Plymouth was one long-stay home which took on such a role in the summer of 1992, with collaboration between hospital management and hospital social workers to ensure that at discharge from hospital older people were diverted to community rather than residential care whenever possible. Reports an evaluation of the project.
Better government for older people
- Author:
- YOUNGER-ROSS Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 6(6), December 1998, pp.236-239.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This introductory article describes the 'Better Government for Older People' initiative and its links with community care. The author argues that, unless the Warwick Consortium analysis is properly understood, community care planning for older people will be deficient. Some challenges remaining to be addressed by government in support of the Better Government agenda are suggested.