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The new political environment in aging: challenges to policy and practice
- Author:
- HUDSON Robert B.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 86(3), July 2005, pp.321-327.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
The last quarter-century has seen a notable shift in the context of social policy as it relates to older adults in the United States and those who work with them. Critical dimensions in this shift include changes in the size and makeup of today’s older population, the rise of conservatism in contemporary U.S. politics, and the more central place older Americans are coming to assume in policymaking around a host of social and economic policy issues. After briefly reviewing these contextual developments, the author presents 5 challenges they bring to social workers and other professionals working with the aged. Each of these reflect changing expectations, opportunities, and options confronting both policymakers and older people themselves as the dynamics of aging politics and policy evolve in ways that would have been hard to imagine 25 or 30 years ago.
Home and community-based care: recent accomplishments and new challenges
- Author:
- HUDSON Robert B.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 7(3/4), 1996, pp.53-69.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article traces the development of home and community-based care to its current place in the worlds of health and social policy. An argument is developed to the effect that such services have by now gained both heightened policy legitimacy and organisational capacity. Building on these contentions, the articles goes on to suggest that such services should continue to gain a more prominent place within long-term care policy, and that long-term care issues deserve a more central place within social insurance policy more generally. The article concludes by suggesting that demonstrations of policy efficacy such as those that are taking place in home and community services might help to a least modestly offset the frontal assault which is currently taking place across the range of American social policy.