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Redrawing the boundaries of health and social care
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Family Policy, Autumn 2000, p.6.
Looks at the good and the bad in the governments plans for long-term care and the NHS.
Mainstreaming gerontology in the policy arena
- Authors:
- TORRES-GIL Fernando M., PUCCINELLI Michele A.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 34(6), December 1994, pp.749-752.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Argues that aging has come of age and is now one of the important domestic issues facing the United States. Action taken in the 1990s will determine what type of aging society we will have in the next century. The challenge for gerontologists is to think about new ways to help broaden the debate about preparing for an aging society in a comprehensive manner that takes into account the diverse disciplines and interest groups that will increasingly shape aging-related issues.
Valuable not vulnerable
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 12.04.05, 2005, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the government consultation on the future of social care, 'Independence, Wellbeing and Choice'. Highlights funding, fair access to care, individual budgets and the single assessment process and looks at key questions arising from the green paper.
Higher benefits and better indicators need to cut poverty claim charities
- Author:
- WELLARD Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.10.03, 2003, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the governments progress so far in tackling poverty light of its fifth annual poverty report 'Opportunity for all'. Also highlights areas that are not included in the poverty indicators.
The National Service Framework for older people: 'the promotion of health and active life in older age'
- Author:
- GRANVILLE Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 11(3), September 2001, pp.6-8.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
The Beth Johnson Foundation has been a lead organisation for over twenty years in demonstrating the need for health promotion for ands with older people. This is the second in a series of working papers that are being produced by the Foundation to support the development of health promotion. The paper examines Standard Eight of the recently published National Service Framework for Older People (Department of Health 2001), which concentrates on promoting health and active life in older age. It introduces the policy context of National Service Frameworks; provides a more detailed examination of Standard Eight of the NSF for Older People, including the 'must dos', and some identified gaps; links to some other health strategies , including NSFs and NHS Plan; and wishes the response of the Beth Johnson Foundation to Standard Eight.
Could Better Government for Older People deliver quality in ageing?
- Author:
- SHREEVE Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 1(2), December 2000, pp.7-17.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This paper examines the experience of the two year action research programme Better Government for Older People within the wider context of an ambition to create 'quality in ageing'. It argues that within the limits of the orginating aims and values of the Better Government for Older People a great deal has been achieved to improve services for older people, and to encourage and recognise the direct contributions of senior citizens within 28 pilot areas and wider network of local authorities across the UK. However, the author suggests that such service improvements and experiments in engagement are unlikely to be sustained and developed without a wider commitment by central and local government to the development of strategies for an ageing population. The paper describes the antecedents of the Better Government for Older People programme, its structure and operational practices. It goes on to examines the programme's achievements against its stated aims and values, seeking to identify what still needs to be achieved. In the final section it seeks to explore the barriers to realising the ambitions of quality in ageing, arguing that ageism coupled with political and professional inertia are major constraints. In conclusion it argues that legislation is likely to be a pre-requisite for the cultural and organisational shift required in order to move to a system based on older people as citizens rather than service recipients.
The Commission's vision for all our futures
- Author:
- HEPTINSTALL Derek
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 4(3), July 2000, pp.14-17.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Makes the case for free personal care and explains the injustices and inequities which arise from alternative funding systems outside progressive taxation.
Now is the time to think of winter
- Author:
- VAUX Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.6.00, 2000, p.33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Changes to the rules governing winter fuel payments have made a larger number of people eligible and allowed others to claim back payments. Outlines the new rules and how to claim.
A step by step approach to free personal care
- Author:
- LEGRYS Desmond
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 4(1), January 2000, pp.10-13.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Government is reported to have doubts about accepting the major recommendations at the Royal Commission on long term care that all personal care should be provided free. The author suggests how the recommendation could be implemented without costs running out of control.
What next for long term care
- Authors:
- SUTHERLAND Dorothy, AMBACHE Jeremy
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, April 1999, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Following the final report of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care for the Elderly, the Government has called for a national debate. Sets out the key points of the report and some early reactions.