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Explaining about - advocacy and care home residents
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 9(1), March 2005, pp.9-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Explains how advocacy can empower care home residents and how these services are currently provided, and argues for better funding. Also briefly reports on a pilot study of local Age Concern advocacy schemes funded under the Nuffield Foundation's small grants programme in the autumn of 2003. The study highted different advocacy service models, numbers of referrals, types of referrals and funding problems.
The role of family care-givers for an older person resident in a care home
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 30(5), October 2000, pp.649-661.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
A sample of 61 residents admitted during the preceding three years to 35 independent sector nursing or residential care homes in four local authority areas was interviewed. Five discrete roles for family care-givers in the care homes were described: checking the quality of care, companionship, handling the cared-for person's finances, giving the cared-for person practical help, and assisting the cared-for person with personal care. Although family care-givers described themselves as very satisfied with the care homes as a whole, as many as half were worried about some aspect of care. The research has implications for social workers, care home proprietors and registration and inspection units in encouraging care homes to adopt more 'relative friendly' policies.
Discrimination against self-funding residents in long-term residential care in England
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 23(5), September 2003, pp.603-624.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Reports the findings of research funded by The Nuffield Foundation on older people paying the full cost of their long-term residential or nursing home care in England. The research had three stages; a national postal survey directed at the senior finance officer in social services departments, follow-up telephone interviews with a sample of them, and interviews in five case study areas. Those interviewed included social services staff (including a legal adviser), care home providers, self-funding residents and relatives. These self-funding residents were commonly relatively physically independent on admission to the care home. Despite central government directives that needs assessments should be available regardless of a person's means, it is a common policy to encourage older people in this situation to admit themselves directly to care homes without a needs assessment. Wide variation was found in local authority practice in respect to being prepared to make a contract with a care-home provider for older people able to meet the full costs of care.
Opening doors: a case study of multi-purpose residential homes
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 122p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the increasingly widespread policy of using residential care premises to provide services for non-resident frail older people and their carers. Looks at the extent of existing and planned provision of multi-purpose homes in England and Wales; the different types of multi-purpose homes developing; evaluates the multi-purpose homes from the perspectives of the main users of the service; and identifies significant issues arising from a multipurpose home development.
Multi-purpose residential homes: a fair deal for residents?
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 14(3), September 1994, pp.383-404.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Reports on a study carried out in 1990 for the Department of Health looking at the development of local authority multi-purpose residential homes for elderly people in England and Wales. A national survey showed that one in five public sector residential homes for elderly people would soon be multi-purpose. This proportion could be expected to increase in the 1990s. Many of these homes had become the centre for virtually all the community support services for elderly people in the neighbourhood. Despite some obvious management advantages in making use of residential home facilities for older people in the community, there have to be serious reservations about a multi-purpose model. Case studies in six multi-purpose homes suggest that residents themselves may gain little or nothing from this arrangement. Few interact with elderly people from the neighbourhood in the day centre. So much activity on the premises meant that invasions of residents' privacy and space were common.