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'What price care': paying for residential or nursing home care for elderly people
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- Mitcham
Uses case studies to highlight some of the ways in which elderly people and their families face unacceptable worry and stress in finding suitable residential care.
Local authority charging procedures for residential and nursing home care: fact sheet
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 22p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Fact sheet describing the help which may be available from local authorities for older people needing residential or nursing home care.
Developments in community care: report of a symposium exploring possible post Griffiths developments in community care
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- Mitcham
Looks at post-Griffiths Report developments in community care : nurse practitioners; a Homefinder service which assists hospital patients to choose a residential or nursing home when a return home is not possible; home support for the elderly mentally infirm; day services; BRITSMOs.
Age Concern England's response to HM Treasury consultation: long term care insurance
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The proposals for regulating long term care insurance are welcomed. However some questions are raised about the cover and access term standards, and whether the long term care insurance products are too complex to be able to fit into the few standards that have been suggested. Once the products are regulate there may be a stronger argument for cover and access term standards which addresses more complex areas of long term care insurance., such as costs, procedure for assessment claims and links with the state system of care.
Preserved rights to income support: results of an Age Concern/Association of Charity Officers survey
- Authors:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND, ASSOCIATION OF CHARITY OFFICERS
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 11p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report focusing on older people in residential care or nursing homes who come under the 'preserved rights' system of Income Support funding, the system superseded by the NHS and Community Care Act 1990.
Age Concern England's response to the consultation document: a new approach to social services performance; April 1999
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This response discusses age discrimination in the delivery of social services, variability of definitions of terms such as 'adult' and 'older people', and Age Concern's desire to see further performance indicators developed in the areas of inter-agency working, prevention and rehabilitation, assessment, charges for residential care, adaptations and complaints procedures.