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Housing for older people
- Author:
- GREGORY Janice
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government. Social Justice and Regeneration Committee
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
In the summer of 2003 the newly formed Social Justice and Regeneration Committee chose "Housing for Older People" as the topic for its first policy review. This was partly due to the wide ranging debate being conducted with the Welsh Assembly Government's "Strategy for Older People in Wales" The topic was approached with the view that any civilised society should ensure that its older citizens live in comfort and security and as independently as their health allows.
Community care in Taiwan: mere talk, no policy
- Authors:
- CHOU Yueh-Ching, KROGER Teppo
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Mental Health, 2(2/3), 2004, pp.139-155.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article explores the policy definitions and the funder roles of central and local governments in community care in Taiwan. The notion of community care has been adopted in Taiwan following the model of Hong Kong but the main question of the article is whether this has resulted in actual service provisions at the community level, forming an alternative to institutional care. The data has been collected from several sources: policy documents, official statistics, surveys, general reports, funding provision reports, and empirical studies. The results show that neither central nor local authorities are seriously involved in caring for elderly people or persons with disabilities in Taiwan's communities. In Taiwan, community care for these groups of people still means, in practice, informal care provided by female family members without any support from public policies. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Silver service
- Author:
- FRANCIS Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Chronicle, 1.10.04, 2004, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Emap Business
Discusses recent developments to give a higher priority to social care services for older people. Looks at the Department of Health consultation on the future of adult social care and the discussion document 'All our tomorrows: inverting the triangle of care' commissioned by the Association of Directors of Social Services and the Local Government Association
Unserved, unseen, and unheard: Integrating programs for HIV-infected and HIV-affected older adults
- Authors:
- EMLET Charles, CANNON POINDEXTER Cynthia
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 29(2), May 2004, pp.86-96.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Explores the parallel structures and service delivery systems of the Older Americans' Act and the Ryan White CARE Act, argues that social workers should have a working knowledge of both pieces of public policy, and suggests integration or coordination of aging and HIV services. Two vignettes illuminate the issues and implications for HIV and aging network social workers. Argues that HIV social workers should know more about services for older people and that gerontological social workers should know more about HIV services so that HIV-infected and HIV affected older people do no remain unserved, unseen and unheard.
Happy 85th birthday?
- Authors:
- McCLELLAND Siobhan, FELVUS Jeremy, TAYLOR Robert
- Publishers:
- Age Concern, Pfizer
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
As we get older our state of health affects our ability to fully participate in society and to fulfil our ambitions. The proportion of older people within society is growing and will continue to grow throughout the first half of the 21st Century. Wales has taken an important step in addressing these challenges in developing its Older People's Strategy. Politicians, policy makers and society at large must look even further ahead and consider the future of healthy ageing and provide imaginative solutions to the longer term issues it presents. The analysis provides detailed comment on the main themes to emerge across the four discussion dinners. The report takes these themes and poses a series of challenging questions for policy makers and society alike. Overall the project, is intended to stimulate debate in Wales on the future of healthy ageing and to identify areas for future research and discussion.
Older people drink too
- Author:
- GALPIN Diane
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 09.12.04, 2004, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Examines the current policy context within which professionals are able to obtain specialist alcohol services for older people. While research has identified alcohol problems as an issue for older people, current policy tends to exclude this group. The article concludes that policy must recognise the needs of older people and that specialist training is required for professionals to identify alcohol problems in older people.
A Commissioner for Older People in Wales: the report and recommendations of the Welsh Assembly Government's advisory group
- Author:
- WALES. National Assembly
- Publisher:
- Wales. National Assembly
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 52p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
As a first step to delivering the Assembly Government’s Manifesto commitment to establish a Commissioner for Older People, the Minister for Health and Social Services established this Advisory Group as a Task and Finish Group. The remit that was set for the Advisory Group was: “To consider the status, powers, role and responsibilities of the Commissioner for Older People in Wales and to make recommendations to the Minister for Health and Social Services by March 2004” This document examines the reasons why a Commissioner for Older People is needed, considers the role and remit such a Commissioner might fulfil, and examines what Powers would be necessary to support the recommended responsibilities and duties. It concludes with a survey of some of the main implementation issues, concerning the appointment and accountability of the Commissioner.
Evidence in policy and practice: what kinds of research designs?
- Author:
- QURESHI Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 4(1), April 2004, pp.7-23.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Over-generalization of the ‘effectiveness hierarchy’, and echoes of past paradigm wars about methodology, persist in generating conflicting judgements about the value of different research designs for evidence-based practice. A range of ways in which the worth of research is actually judged, and might be judged, are elaborated. The article then focuses on specific examples of the use of research, considering the kinds of evidence which could usefully support practice with carers, and the evidence which has been used to justify policy (the National Service Framework) for older people. The article concludes by using ideas about complex adaptive systems to illustrate similarities between uses of evidence in policy and individual practice. Fundamentally, considerations which affect our judgements about the worth of research relate to the values expressed in the process of conducting the research, and the likely usefulness of the results. In both policy and practice, a whole range of research evidence can be, and is, used to support values, identify and understand problems, inform negotiations, and suggest solutions, without necessarily determining action to be taken in particular cases.
On the level
- Author:
- GILBERT Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 20.4.04, 2004, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Despite government guidance on fairer charging for home care, looks at findings of a recent Age Concern report, 'Fair enough', which has revealed huge discrepancies between local authorities.
Social work, general practice and evidence-based policy in the collaborative care of older people: current problems and future possibilities
- Authors:
- KHARICHA Kalpa, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 12(2), March 2004, pp.134-141.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
While collaborative (joint) working between social services and primary healthcare continues to rise up the policy agenda, current policy is not based on sound evidence of benefit to patients or the wider community. Both sets of practitioners report benefits for their own work from adopting new arrangements for collaboration. The underlying assumption behind much of this activity is that a greater degree of integration provides benefits to users and carers, a perspective that at times obscures the issue of resource availability, especially in the form of practical community services such as district nursing and home help. At present there is insufficient evidence to demonstrate that formal arrangements for collaborative working (CW) are better than those forged informally between committed individuals or teams. Furthermore, arrangements for CW have not hitherto been widely evaluated in systematic studies with a comparative design and focus on outcomes for users and carers rather than on processes. This paper proposes process measures for future evaluation of CW: study populations must be comparable; details of how services are actually delivered must be obtained and co-location should not be assumed to mean collaboration; care packages in areas of comparable resources should be examined; both destinational outcomes and user-defined evaluations of benefit should be considered; possible disadvantages of integrated care also need to be actively considered; evaluations should include economic analysis. Those implementing new policies in primary care trusts have little sound evidence to guide them in their innovative work. However, they should take the opportunity to rigorously test the advantages and disadvantages of collaboration.