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Getting personal
- Author:
- TRUELAND Jennifer
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 11.10.01, 2001, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on the tensions that are rising as the four UK nations get set to start payments for nursing care - and in Scotland, personal care for elderly people.
A new lease of life
- Author:
- COTTER Angela
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 20.5.98, 1998, pp.58-59.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that nurses need to rethink the way they approach rehabilitative care of older people.
The Cambridge handbook of age and ageing
- Editors:
- JOHNSON Malcolm L., (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 744p.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
This is a guide to the current body of knowledge, theory, policy and practice relevant to age researchers and gerontologists around the world. It contains almost 80 original chapters, commissioned and written by the world's leading gerontologists from 16 countries and 5 continents. The broad focus of the book is on the behavioural and social sciences but it also includes important contributions from the biological and medical sciences. It provides comprehensive, accessible and authoritative accounts of all the key topics in the field ranging from theories of ageing, to demography, physical aspects of ageing, mental processes and ageing, nursing and health care for older people, the social context of ageing, cross cultural perspectives, relationships, quality of life, gender, and financial and policy provision.
The truth about free care
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.11.01, 2001, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses why the bid to create a fairer system of long-term care for older people involves a lot more than the question of whether personal care should be free.
The fading prospects of dignity security and independence
- Author:
- WALKER Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 7(2), December 2000, pp.16-20.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The author analyses the government response to the report of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care. He points out that the Royal Nursing College has called the proposals on nursing unworkable and supports a campaign to get the government to change its mind on free personal care.
A matter of definition
- Author:
- GREEN Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.4.00, 2000, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The health secretary's comments on the funding of long-term care of older people begs the question over what the government would pay for. Argues that it all hinges on its definition of personal care.
The progress of older people placed during the first year of the 1996 continuing care guidance
- Authors:
- BRIDGES Jackie, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 8(2), March 2000, pp.147-150.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
From April 1996, health authorities across England implemented new local policies to clarify their responsibilities for funding continuing health care. Presents the results from one health authority which sought to evaluate the implementation of policy relating to the placement of older people who had been placed in this band of care within the first 10 months of the new policy.
Elder abuse: critical issues in policy and practice
- Editors:
- SLATER Phil, EASTMAN Mervyn
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 214p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aims to identify and address key issues in the identification and prevention of elder abuse. Includes papers on: lessons for practice in researching elder abuse; putting elder abuse on the agenda; the relevance of age; developing joint policies and procedures for tackling elder abuse; a social welfare model of elder abuse and professional intervention; learning about elder abuse at a social work qualifying level; detection and prevention in care and nursing settings; and an international perspective.
The case for breaking through ageism in mental health care
- Author:
- ADAMS Trevor
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 20.3.96, 1996, pp.46-47.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Examines the recent policy in mental health nursing of refocusing care on people with severe and enduring mental health problems. It is argued that older people with severe and enduring mental illnesses such as dementia are excluded from this policy and that this amounts to a clear case of ageism. Various ways of addressing the problem of ageism in recent policy changes are explored.
A fair deal for care in older age?: public attitudes towards the funding of long-term care
- Authors:
- DEEMING Chris, KEEN Justin
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 31(4), October 2003, pp.431-446.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
The government has made nursing care in England and Wales free, while continuing to means-test personal care.This policy contrasts with the recommendation for free personal care made by the Royal Commission on Long-term Care in 1999.This article reports on a survey of attitudes towards financing care in old age from a representative sample of men and women in England aged 25 years and over.The majority of people feel that the state should finance care for older people.The article discusses the extent to which this is consistent with the government's position and the competing notions of equity that recent debate entails