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Dependency and old age: theoretical accounts and practical understandings
- Author:
- DANT Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 8(2), June 1988, pp.171-188.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The concept of dependency is involved in two strands of the literature on old age, and is used in each with a different effect. In the literature on 'structured dependency' the concept is used to describe and criticise a relationship between elderly people and the state that is determined by social policy. In the literature on 'dependency scales' the concept is used as a basis for categorising elderly people for research, planning and service purposed. More recent commentary on the role of the concept in relation to elderly people suggests that dependency needs to be understood in a fuller way if it is to be useful in understanding the situation of elderly people in contemporary society. This paper develops the idea that dependency refers to a form of relationship characterised by an unequal distribution of power.
Joint approaches to social policy: rationality and practice
- Authors:
- CHALLIS Linda, et al
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 284p., tables, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Financing long-term social care: challenges for the nineties; paper for the Esmee Fairbairn workshop, Cambridge, September 1988
- Author:
- DAVIES Bleddyn
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 26p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Suggests ways of improving the mechanisms for financing long-term social care for old people.
The years ahead: a policy for the elderly: report of the Working Party on Services for the Elderly
- Author:
- IRELAND. Department of Health. Working Party on Services for the Elderly
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 222p., tables
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
The elderly represent 11.5% of the population of Ireland, but Ireland will experience the second highest increase in its over-65 population in the European Union, with an anticipated growth of 26% by 2011. Under ancient Celtic civilization, the so-called Brehon laws were very enlightened in their view of the elderly. In modern times, policy in Ireland has been shaped by the report of a working group in 1988, The Years Ahead, which has been adopted as official policy. With the main aim of maintaining older people in their own homes in maximum health, the report outlines a comprehensive scheme of community, health and institutional measures. Many of these have been incorporated in the 2 blue-prints for future development of the Irish Health Services, known as Shaping a Healthier Future (1994) and Quality and Fairness (2001).
The challenge of caring for the elderly in the 1990s
- Author:
- THOMPSON M. Keith
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, October 1988, pp.438-439.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of General Practitioners
Discusses health and social services needs and policy.