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The future of social care
- Author:
- MORIARTY Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 13(3), May 2005, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The author provides an overview of the proposals in the new green paper for adult social care that are especially relevant for people with dementia and their families. The article looks specifically at direct payments; the 'right to request' and greater involvement by the voluntary and community sectors.
The health and social care experiences of black and minority ethnic older people
- Author:
- MORIARTY Jo
- Publisher:
- Race Equality Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 6p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing paper summarises experiences and barriers to accessing services for BME older people, including lack of information, language difficulties, and differing expectations about how services can help.
The participation of adult service users, including older people, in developing social care
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, MORIARTY Jo, et al
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide focuses on how practitioners and managers in social care can initiate and sustain the participation of adult service users, including older people, in developing social care. Although it has been designed mainly for practitioners and managers in social care, the guide will be useful to everyone involved in promoting service user participation, including people using services and family carers. Service users now play an increasingly important role in efforts to improve social care services. This guide focuses on how practitioners can initiate and sustain the participation of adult service users, in ways that empower service users and reflect a shared commitment to developing social care services in a more democratic way. (Previously published as SCIE Practice Guide no. 11).
Examining day centre provision for older people in the UK using the Equality Act 2010: findings of a scoping review
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, MORIARTY Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 22(4), 2014, pp.352-360.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article reports the findings from a literature review of day care services undertaken during March–June 2012 and repeated in May 2013. The databases searched included AgeInfo, Embase, Medline, PsycINFO, Social Care Online, Web of Science and the publication platform Ingenta Connect as well as specialist older people's sites. It discusses these findings in the context of services for older people in the UK, defined as those aged 65 years and over. The aim of the scoping review was to identify what is known about how day services (here confined to congregate day care or day centres) will meet the challenges posed by the Equality Act 2010 in supporting different user groups, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older people or older people from minority ethnic groups. The review found that research on all aspects of day services was limited and that information about older people using such services was often provided context-free. It concludes that those funding or evaluating day services' support to diverse groups of older people need to urgently address matters such as differential access and differential views about specific services. (Publisher abstract)