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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.
Approaches to improving quality in nursing and residential homes: recent developments in Australia and their relevance to the UK
- Authors:
- BARTLETT Helen, BOLDLY Duncan
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 2(3), September 2001, pp.3-14.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Concerns about quality and standards of care in the nursing and residential home sector have exercised policymakers, managers and practitioners in both Australia and the UK for some years. While Australia is a relatively young country, demographically speaking, it has in place a coherent 'aged care' policy. The UK on the other hand, with its rapidly ageing profile, has only recently made a serious policy commitment to the health and social care agenda for older people. Australia therefore has several years of experience to be shared with the UK when it come to policy and practice of quality improvement. In particular, there are valuable lessons to be learnt from Australia's national outcome standards and monitoring system for care homes, and it's more recent introduction of care homes accreditation system. Apart from identifying any issues associated with the implementation of such approaches to quality improvement, it is important to establish whether they have an impact on the quality of care and life of older residents. As the UK moves to implementing national minimum standards in 2002, lessons from Australia are timely and may help inform best practice and policy in long-term care in the future.
Retirement patterns and pension policy: an international perspective
- Authors:
- HOKENSTAD M.C Terry, JOHANSSON Lennarth
- Journal article citation:
- Social Thought: Journal of Religion in the Social Services, 20(3/4), 2001, pp.25-32.
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, New York
Population aging and the changing nature of work are reshaping thinking about retirement in post-industrial society. The future will see less demarcation between the work and retirement phases of life. This will include a growing trend towards partial retirement and flexible retirement. Changes in pension policy will contribute to changing patterns of retirement. Recent U.S legislation has uncoupled retirement from Social Security. New policy in Sweden provides partial pensions for partial retirement. Other pension policy changes in the European Union also are contributing to the redefinition of retirement in the 21st century.
Promoting interdependence: a new challenge in developing services for older people
- Author:
- BOWERS Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 9(6), December 2001, pp.34-39.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article presents evidence gained from development projects and consultancy across the country about the meaning and nature of 'independence'. The concept is examined in relation to the current policy context of social inclusion, partnerships and modernisation, with specific reference to the implementation of the National Service Framework.
Empowering older people: beyond the care model
- Authors:
- THOMPSON Neil, THOMPSON Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 1(1), April 2001, pp.61-76.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article explores models and strategies for developing empowering forms of social work practice with older people. Social work with older people has strong roots in a predominantly medical model in which the primary objective is to ensure that care is provided. While social work with other client groups has made major steps forward in developing less medicalized approaches, the work undertaken with older people has seen far less progress. This article examines the differences between a care model and an empowerment model, identifies some of the barriers standing in the way of movement from one to the other and considers ways of responding to such barriers. The authors identify strategies for developing empowering forms of practice.
A Fair deal for older people: public views on the funding of long-term care
- Author:
- DEEMING Chris
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 42p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report publishes the results of an opinion poll comissioned by the King's Fund to look at the public's views of current and proposed policies regarding the funding of long-term care. The poll was carried out six months after the government had published its response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care and were introducing a Health and Social Care Bill which included recommendations on the funding of long-term personal care. The two main recommendations of the Commission were that both nursing care and personal care should be free for all who need it. The first of these recommendations was accepted by the Government but the second was rejected. The opinion poll reports that two thirds of people questioned supported the Governments decision on nursing care but that three out of five people disagreed with the Government's decision to continue means-testing people for personal care. This result marks a change in public attitudes towards the funding of long-term care. Earlier surveys showed that only 25 percent of people in england and Wales supported the idea of free nursing and personal care. This number has now more than doubled and suggests that people are unhappy with the Government's policies and that a rethink may be needed.
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.
Carer break or carer-blind? Policies for informal carers in the UK
- Author:
- PICKARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 35(4), September 2001, pp.441-458.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article examines three policy statements on informal carers published in the UK in 1999: the National Strategy for Carers, the report of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care and the note of dissent by two members of the Royal Commission. These three documents contain two rather different approaches to policy for carers. On the one hand, the National Strategy and note of dissent emphasise respite care or short-term breaks for carers, and are concerned with sustaining the well-being of carers as well as ensuring the continuation of caring itself. The Royal Commission, on the other hand, emphasises support for the older or disabled person who is being cared for, as a means of supporting the carer, and advocates 'carer-blind' services. It is argued that this policy contains within it the potential to substitute for or replace the carer and that this represents a radical new departure for social policy for carers in the UK. The advantages and disadvantages of the two policy approaches are explored. It is argued that policies for carers should include both services specifically for carers, like breaks from caring, and services provided for the cared-for person, like domestic and personal care services. Wider issues about the proper boundary between family and state care are explored.
No more piggy in the middle
- Author:
- HUDSON Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 5.4.01, 2001, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Argues that the concept of 'intermediate care' has yet to be defined and that service co-ordinators will occupy a major role in deciding its boundaries.
Personhood and the social work relationship in the assessment of older people with dementia
- Author:
- BRYAN Serena
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 56p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Uses the concept of personhood to examine what is required of a professional working with people with dementia. Explores the methodology of a person-centred approach, its implications for social work practice and its compatibility with current government policy and guidelines. These government requirements for the participation of people with dementia in the assessment of need are scrutinised, and a post-modernist analysis applied.