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Glad to be grey?
- Author:
- DOURADO Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 15.3.90, 1990, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Under the system of private healthcare in the USA, eighty percent of elderly people are dependent upon their relatives, home care is virtually nonexistent, yet despite this, the so-called Grey Lobby is booming.
Contrasting European policies for the care of the elderly
- Editors:
- JAMIESON Anne, ILLSLEY Raymond
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 199p., tables, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. Part 1 examines the relationship between formal and informal care, Part 2 deals with care systems and care delivery problems. Includes chapter by Ian Sinclair, Peter Gorbach, Enid Levin and Jenny Williams: 'Community care and residential admissions: results from two empirical studies'.
The home care experience: ethnography and policy
- Editors:
- GUBRIUM Jaber F., SANKAR Andrea
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 380p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Newbury Park, CA
Set of papers examining the effect of caring for frail, ill or mentally ill elderly relatives at home on carers and those being cared for. Includes a section on service provision.
Report on services for elderly people in the Central Nottinghamshire Health District
- Author:
- NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE HEALTH ADVISORY SERVICE
- Publisher:
- National Health Service Advisory Service/Great Britain. Department of Health. So
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 41p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on community, inpatient, and hospital services, as well as services to special groups of patients. Looks at the agencies (health authority, social services, housing, voluntary) and the professions involved.
Report on services for elderly people in the Salisbury Health District
- Author:
- NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE HEALTH ADVISORY SERVICE
- Publisher:
- National Health Service Advisory Service/Great Britain.Department of Health.Soci
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on community, inpatient, and hospital services, as well as services to special groups of patients. Looks at the agencies (health authority, social services, housing, voluntary) and the professions involved.
The Gospel Oak Project: the use of health and social services by dependent elderly people in the community
- Authors:
- LIVINGSTON G., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health Trends, 22(2), 1990, pp.70-73.
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
Describes demographic and morbidity data and service use of a sample of elderly people.
Who's caring today?: a study of day care services for older people in Dumfries and Galloway
- Author:
- FERGUSON Ann
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 61p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
A study of current provision, including who uses the service, who provides it, aims of the service, response to individual client needs, and relationship with community care philosophy. Draws conclusions and makes recommendations for policy and practice.
Social welfare in Latin America
- Editors:
- DIXON John, SCHEURELL Robert
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 217p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains chapters on: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Uruguay.
Report on services for mentally ill people and elderly people in the Islington Health District
- Author:
- NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE HEALTH ADVISORY SERVICE
- Publisher:
- National Health Service Health Advisory Service
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 75p.
- Place of publication:
- Sutton
Describes the existing services, draws attention to matters of immediate concern, gives advice on better management of resources and suggests directions for the future.
Care in private homes: a qualitative study carried out by the Social Survey Division of OPCS on behalf of the Department of Social Security
- Author:
- TODD Jean E
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 41p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research based on sixty in-depth interviews with managers of private residential and nursing homes for the elderly designed to collection information on policies, philosophies and levels of care provided.