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Navigating the way: the future care and well-being of older people
- Author:
- RESOLUTION FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Resolution Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Navigating the Way: the future care and well being of older people was launched in the House of Commons on 8 December 2008. The report sets out a vision for the care and support of older people and is the culmination of several pieces of research and consultation with a wide range of experts and stakeholders.
Silver service
- Author:
- FRANCIS Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Chronicle, 1.10.04, 2004, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Emap Business
Discusses recent developments to give a higher priority to social care services for older people. Looks at the Department of Health consultation on the future of adult social care and the discussion document 'All our tomorrows: inverting the triangle of care' commissioned by the Association of Directors of Social Services and the Local Government Association
Unserved, unseen, and unheard: Integrating programs for HIV-infected and HIV-affected older adults
- Authors:
- EMLET Charles, CANNON POINDEXTER Cynthia
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 29(2), May 2004, pp.86-96.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Explores the parallel structures and service delivery systems of the Older Americans' Act and the Ryan White CARE Act, argues that social workers should have a working knowledge of both pieces of public policy, and suggests integration or coordination of aging and HIV services. Two vignettes illuminate the issues and implications for HIV and aging network social workers. Argues that HIV social workers should know more about services for older people and that gerontological social workers should know more about HIV services so that HIV-infected and HIV affected older people do no remain unserved, unseen and unheard.
Post-reform community care for elderly people: who gets how much of what service?
- Authors:
- DAVIES Bleddyn, FERNANDEZ Jose, WARBURTON Raymond
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 3(2), December 1996, pp.25-30.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Evaluates community care reforms in terms of services for older people and how well they are targeted. Looks at the issues relating to the effects on the services and the cost implications.
The final betrayal
- Author:
- MILLAR Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 4.4.96, 1996, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports from the third Action on Elder Abuse conference which was held in Warwick last week. Calls for elder abuse to investigate and clear policies for both the abused and the abuser to be developed.
Home rules
- Author:
- COHEN Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.11.95, 1995, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on new proposals which should make it easier for elderly Irish people in Britain to move to residential care in Northern Ireland.
Village people
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.8.94, 1994, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Care villages for elderly people are one of the newest imports from America. A heated debate has emerged in response to a controversial proposal for a special care village for 100 people aged 60-plus on the outskirts of Inverness in the Highland Region of Scotland. Reports on arguments for and against the proposal.
Redefining old age: a review of CPA's recent contributions to social policy
- Author:
- MIDWINTER Eric
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 46p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Choices for later life: a strategy of services for older people
- Author:
- COVENTRY Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Coventry. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 32p., illus., tables.
- Place of publication:
- Coventry
The professional construction of aging
- Author:
- MILLER L.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 10(3/4), 1987, pp.141-153.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Discusses ageism among professional practitioners and in policy making.