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BME carers: challenging the myth;"they look after their own"; a good practice guide
- Author:
- WALES. National Assembly
- Publisher:
- Wales. National Assembly
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This examination of the extent to which carers services in Wales are accessible to Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) carers is located within the overall 'Caring about Carers - a Strategy for Carers In Wales (Implementation Plan)', a project initiated by the Welsh Assembly Government. Supported also by the Welsh Assembly Government, and carried out within the auspices of AWEMA (All Wales Ethnic Minority Association) as a BME Carers project, this study sets out to explore the needs of BME carers in Wales and the extent to which they felt that their needs were being recognised and addressed by mainstream services. (Edited publisher abstract)
The strategy for older people in Wales
- Author:
- WALES. National Assembly
- Publisher:
- Wales. National Assembly
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This Strategy is the product of extensive consultation, research and expert views about the lives of older people in Wales both now and in the future. The aims, objectives and more detailed programmes and projects reflect the findings of the report of the Advisory Group ‘When I’m 64…..and more’ published in May 2002 and over 100 responses to it. The Strategy recognises that: over the next 20 years demographic changes will significantly change the balance of the population and mean that future policies and programmes in Wales must reflect the needs of an ageing society; and there is a need to improve the quality, quantity and responsiveness of services for older people.
Exploring assistance in Sweden and the United States
- Authors:
- SHEA Dennis, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 43(5), October 2003, pp.712-721.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Few international comparisons of health services are performed using microlevel data. Using such data, this paper compares the need for and receipt of assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) in comparable samples in the United States and Sweden, a country with a universal system of community-based services. Data from national surveys of community residents completed at approximately the same time in each nation are used to create comparable measures of need and assistance. Descriptive and logistic regression analyses compare need and assistance patterns across the nations and identify individual factors that explain receipt of assistance and unmet needs. Results indicate that a simple story of greater use of paid formal services in Sweden and more unpaid informal use in the United States masks a more complex relationship. Assistance with ADLs seems to be more targeted in Sweden; narrow differences in assistance widen considerably when the analysis is limited to those reporting need. Although these two different health systems result in similar levels of overall ADL assistance, a detailed microlevel comparison reveals key distinctions. Further microlevel comparisons of access, cost, and quality in cross-national data can further aid our understanding of the consequences of health policy.
Partnership boards and generic care workers at centre of services reform
- Author:
- SALARI Natasha
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.10.03, 2003, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Older people are often marginal to decisions that affect the services they use. Discusses a new report, 'All our tomorrows' commissioned by the ADSS and the LGA, which aims to put them at the heart of planning their wants with the development of older people's partnership boards.
Scoping study of older people in rural Scotland
- Authors:
- PHILIP Lorna, et al
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 118p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
In recent years rural policy issues have been to the fore in Scotland. However, the specific needs and characteristics of rural areas have yet to be raised in all policy areas. Issues concerning older people in rural Scotland are a case in point. There have been very few studies of older people in rural areas and in consequence there is little systematic understanding of their life experiences. This report reviews a wide range of material about older people in rural areas, presenting information around five quality of life themes: income, housing, accessibility, health and social care, and social and community life.
The quality of quality measurement in U.S. nursing homes
- Authors:
- MOR Vincent, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 43(Special Issue II), April 2003, pp.37-46.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article examines various technical challenges inherent in the design, implementation, and dissemination of health care quality performance measures. Using national and state-specific Minimum Data Set data from 1999, the authors examined sample size, measure stability, creation of ordinal ranks, and risk adjustment as applied to aggregated facility quality indicators. Nursing home Quality Indicators now in use are multidimensional and quarterly estimates of incidence-based measures can be relatively unstable, suggesting the need for some averaging of measures over time. Current public reports benchmarking nursing homes' performances may require additional technical modifications to avoid compromising the fairness of comparisons.
The impact of council tax on older people's income
- Authors:
- KENWAY Peter, PANNELL Jenny
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Help the Aged commissioned this report from the New Policy Institute to consider the evidence about the council tax burden on older people, and to formulate a number of policy recommendations. The findings and conclusions cover three areas: the impact of council tax on pensioners; the council tax benefit system; and goals and supporting policies on council tax and council tax benefit that pensioners and their organisations could consider supporting.
Stop pensioner poverty now: older people - ignored and forgotten
- Author:
- HELP THE AGED
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Poverty comes in many different shapes and sizes. but by the government's own admission, and in spite of its claims of commitment to social justice, today's pensioners are very often poor not only in terms of the income they receive, and the quality of their neighbourhoods but also the opportunities available to them to take a full part in society. This document calls upon the government to match its publicly stated commitment to ending child poverty with similar energy on behalf of older people. Fundamental to this is the establishment of a decent universal basic state pension that will deliver basic needs. And there are also more focused reforms and initiatives that we believe will address some of the worst areas of pensioner poverty, that are urgently needed now. These are: bridging the huge gulf between entitlement and claim rates of pensioner benefits; radical improvement in the addition at age 80 to the weekly state pension, which currently stands at a derisory extra 25p: making work pay for poorest pensioners with a decisive increase in the earnings disregard, to £75 a week: ending, the indefensible anomaly whereby disability before age 65 brings a mobility benefit currently denied to those over the age of 65: preventing the scandal of over 20,000 winter deaths each year of older people that happen because we cannot manage the effects of winter cold: helping pensioners to take a fuller part in their neighbourhoods through initiatives such as improved street lighting and consistent free travel opportunities.
Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health (REACH): overview, site-specific outcomes, and future directions
- Authors:
- SCHULZ Richard, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 43(4), August 2003, pp.514-520.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article describes the work of REACH (Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health), a multi-site research programme which carries out social and behavioural research on interventions designed to enhance family caregiving for Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The research aims to test the effectiveness of multiple interventions and to evaluate the overall outcomes of such interventions.
Long-term care research and policy
- Author:
- KEMPER Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 43(4), August 2003, pp.436-446.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article provides a framework for understanding how long-term care (LTC) research contributes to policy, develops a typology of research contributions to policy with examples of each type, and suggests ways to ensure that contributions continue in the future. The article draws on in-depth interviews with LTC experts working at the interface between research and policy, as well as a small, informal Internet survey and the relevant political science and health policy literature. LTC research makes important contributions to policy, but its contributions easily go unrecognized because they are subtle and often depend on research investments made many years before policy is affected. Thus, it is important to consider what investments in LTC research initiatives and infrastructure are needed to ensure the future contributions of research to policy and to identify barriers to funding such investments. A number of steps that researchers can take to enhance the future contribution of research to LTC policy are proposed.