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Residential homes: quality of life and quality of service
- Authors:
- WATKINS Tim, PEARSON Nich
- Publisher:
- Welsh Consumer Council
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 112p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Report summarising the main conclusions of research carried out by the Welsh Consumer Council into the quality of life of older people living in residential homes.
Moving into a care home: things you need to know
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 34p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Clearly laid out leaflet, aimed at older people, on the practicalities of moving into residential care.
The power behind the home
- Author:
- CLEMENTS Luke
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.11.96, 1996, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Many people are transferring their property into their children's names in a bid to prevent it being sold to pay for continuing care. The author explains that the law is on the side of social services if they wish to challenge such actions.
Assessment in continuing care homes: towards a national standard instrument
- Authors:
- CHALLIS David, CARPENTER Iain, TRASKE Karen
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 94p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Report from a study examining the role of assessment in continuing care homes for older people, including a review of relevant care systems, procedures and documents in the UK and elsewhere. Assessment of quality in residential settings currently focuses on standards measuring regime, staff quality and casemix using aggregated home level information, but there is very little individual care plan or resident focus to quality assurance. Concludes that what is needed is a single instrument, the Minimum Data Set/Resident Assessment Instrument developed in the United States, to measure all the aspects of care home life.
It can happen here
- Author:
- BRIGHT Les
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.11.96, 1996, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes how most staff will immediately deny the existence of abuse in their residential home. But when asked to reflect, they will come up with a list of unacceptable practices which can be changed.
Residential homes: breaking the boredom
- Author:
- WATKINS Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, August 1996, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
A new study from the Welsh Consumer Council looked into quality of life in residential homes by talking to residents. It found that social contact and poverty were more important influences that the quality of the home itself.
The mask of dementia: images of 'demented residents' in a nursing ward
- Authors:
- GOLANDER Hava, RAZ Aviad E.
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 16(3), May 1996, pp.269-285.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Gives a description of the social construction of dementia among elderly residents of a nursing ward is, based on ethnographic field work conducted in an Israeli geriatric centre. Focuses on the construction of positive social identities and the ascription of roles for residents labelled as 'demented'. The findings illustrate the split between personal and social identity in dementia.
Preaching the gospel
- Author:
- BURTON John
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.5.96, 1996, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The publication Home Life was the authoritative work on residential care. Its successor, A Better Home Life is designed to take residential care into the next millennium. The author questions whether homes will seize the opportunity.
Reforming aged care in Australia: change and consequence
- Author:
- GIBSON Diane
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 25(2), April 1996, pp.157-179.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
For the last ten years, the Australian system of services for frail elderly people has been undergoing significant reforms. The Aged Care Reform Strategy in 1985 marks a time of considerable change, particularly with regard to the residential sector. This article is concerned with the policy responses which emerged under the Strategy, and their impact on aged care service delivery in Australia.
The long arm of the welfare state shortened: home help in Sweden
- Authors:
- SUNDSTROM G., MALMBERG B.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 5(2), April 1996, pp.69-75.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Old age care in Sweden expanded greatly in all areas in the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s, both institutional and in-home services have retreated. Little substitution between the two kinds of care can be observed. Cutbacks relative to demographic needs, and probably also to actual needs, have occurred nationally and locally. Home help is analysed as a metaphor for social services and welfare at large. The strategy has been to give priority to the frailest and oldest clients. Others often have to make do without any services. Also, current recipients of home help services now get different inputs: in the 1980s and earlier, 8 of 10 home help hours were used for homemaking (such as shopping, cooking, cleaning and laundry); in the 1990s about half is used for personal care of clients.