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National minimum wage hits care home owners
- Author:
- ELLINOR Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 30.3.04, 2004, p.13.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the impact of the increase in the national minimum wage for care home owners.
Age of opportunity: putting the ageing society of tomorrow on the agenda of the voluntary sector today
- Authors:
- COMMISSON ON THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR AND AGEING, NEW PHILANTHROPY CAPITAL, INTERNATIONAL LONGEVITY CENTRE UK
- Publisher:
- New Philanthropy Capital
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 32
- Place of publication:
- London
This discussion paper from the Commission on the Voluntary Sector, a partnership between the National Philanthropy Capital and ILC-UK, aims to raise questions and prompt thinking about how the voluntary sector can prepare and adapt to an ageing society over the next 20 years. The report tackles a number of key areas, and for each area presents key statistics and two extreme scenarios, outlining what they might mean for the voluntary sector in 20 years time. Areas discussed are: the voluntary sector's relationship with the public and private sectors; the health and wellbeing of an ageing population; an increasing use of the internet and new technology; the numbers of older people volunteering; changes in employment and retirement; and financing and donations to charities. (Original abstract)
Life at the edge
- Authors:
- MORBEY Hazel, PANNELL Jenny, MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.8.03, 2003, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on research from the University of the West of England which evaluated a three-year programme funding 17 projects for older homeless people's services. The projects involved Help the Aged, the Housing Associations' Charitable Trust and Crisis. Services provided included: street outreach and day centre services; resettlement and tenancy sustainment; and housing and benefits advice. The study challenged traditional images of older homeless people and found that a combination of difficult experiences and circumstances can often lead to homelessness. The study also revealed how voluntary agencies working in this area also survive on the margins and have difficulties in funding services.
Overseas influence
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 39, 2.7.03, 2003, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at a new study from the Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender (CRAG) at the University of Surrey which is comparing the organisation and delivery of the residential care system for older people in England and Germany. The study focuses particularly on staff training and qualifications.
Checking on progress
- Author:
- DINSDALE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 43, 27.8.03, 2003, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the latest consultation on Criminal Records Bureau checks on health and social care staff. Highlights the concern voiced over the time criminal checks are taking and the cost implications.
Home free?
- Author:
- McTERNAN John
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.09.02, 2002, pp.vi-vii.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Free personal care was implemented in Scotland in July, but are local authorities and care providers able to deliver on the promises made by the Scottish executive?
Charging for care: the views of care managers
- Authors:
- PENHALE Bridget, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 5(2), June 2001, pp.23-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
A recent study funded by the Nuffield Foundation explored attitudes, practices and policy in relation to charging and assessing older people considering entering residential and nursing home care. This article focuses on the attitudes and views of care managers in their work on financial assessment.
Training for the managers - the priority for achieving quality care
- Authors:
- PATSIOS Demi, JOHNSON Malcolm
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 4(1), January 2000, pp.25-28.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
A study of managers working in the long term care homes started with the premise that the greatest net gains to be achieved in the quality of long term care over the next decade will be through improving the effectiveness and skill of staff. The authors suggest that the poor out look for the industry and limited training budgets suggests that priority should be given to training managers.
Handling other people's money
- Author:
- MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 2(4), June 1996, pp.25-28.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Charging elderly people for community care services is bringing increasing complexities and anxieties for care managers. This article describes the findings of a recent survey and gives a guide to the legal and administrative framework of handling other people's money.
Do for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes behave differently?
- Authors:
- AARONSON William E., ZINN Jacqueline S., ROSKO Michael D.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 34(6), December 1994, pp.775-786.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Examines behavioural differences between for-profit (FP) and not-for-profit (NFP) nursing homes. Previous studies have failed to establish consistent behavioural differences. Provides evidence that NFPs provide significantly higher quality of care to Medicaid beneficiaries and to self-pay residents than do FPs, as evidenced by better staffing and better outcomes among nursing homes with residents at higher risk for adverse outcomes.