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Exploring ways for staff to consult people with dementia about services
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Previous research has demonstrated that, given the right support, individuals with dementia can express opinions about services. However, staff need help with identifying and using opportunities for meaningful consultation. This study by Kate Allan explored how staff can encourage people with dementia to express their views and preferences in the course of day-to-day practice. The focus was on the process of undertaking service user consultation with people with dementia.
Involving older people in community care planning: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
'Older people' form the largest group of community care users but the term does not refer to a static group: older people move in and out of user status as health and care needs fluctuate. Little is known of their role in planning or evaluating care provision. A report from the Social Policy Research Unit reviews practical initiatives seeking to involve older people.
Older people shaping policy and practice
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Older people are a diverse population; their definitions of "a life worth living" and the support needed to achieve that should be paramount. Much policy and practice are still based on the assumption that older people are a ‘burden’. This is problematic for older people and means that resources fail to deliver their definitions of quality. Despite modernising initiatives, barriers in attitudes, approaches, and resources remain within the way that health and social care services operate.There are also good practices and empowering ways of working. These need to be retained and developed. Care services, however, are only a small part of the support that older people value and only a small part of the experience of growing older. Many older people remain isolated – living in one’s own home with no support or contact can be as disempowering as the stereotype of a nursing home. Older people are citizens with important roles in supporting families and within communities. They are also the biggest providers of support to other older people. Contrary to common perception, there is a great deal of evidence of support within communities but these networks are often hidden and tenuous. Involving older people – individually and collectively. Involvement is both individual (about one’s own life) and collective (about local and national initiatives). However, in current practice most involvement takes the form of set pieces, such as having an individual older person on a Social Services Committee. It is often simply about information-giving or consultations which have little effect in bringing about real change. Meaningful involvement requires standards about when older people are first included, how their involvement is resourced, their involvement throughout the whole process, and their scope to influence the outcomes. Older people can set an agenda for programmes of work about older people. There are examples to build upon of involving older people as commissioners of research, researchers and co-researchers, reference group members, users of research findings and peer reviewers.
Social service users' own definitions of quality outcomes
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Shaping Our Lives project, working in partnership with Black User Group (London), Service User Action Group (Wakefield), Ethnic Disabled Group Emerged (Manchester) and an alliance of user groups in Waltham Forest (London), looked at the application in practice of on-going work about what service users meant by 'user-defined outcomes'. Both the research and the development projects covered a range of experiences - including those of older people, mental health users, minority ethnic communities and disabled people and involving 66 users in all.
Getting older people's views on quality home care services
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This study explored older people's ideas about what a quality home care service should look like and how their views about this can be regularly heard. The researchers saw 143 older people - living in Manchester - in focus groups or their own homes. Older people valued home care services highly and had clear views about what characterises quality in these services.
Low intensity support: preventing dependency
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Older people and disabled people often don't qualify for full social services assistance. Yet many clearly do need help. Low intensity support can help prevent people reaching crisis point and enable them to sustain their own homes. But it is important to strike the right balance between helping people and controlling their lives. This summary considers how users perceive their services and needs, and highlights some innovative approaches to support. It assesses what users want, discusses what best practice might be and investigates some of the dilemmas for providers and the the implications for policy reform.
Involving volunteers from underrepresented groups: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Survey evidence suggests that young people, older people, unemployed people, disabled people and people from black and other minority ethnic communities are underrepresented as volunteers in mainstream organisations. Researched carried out by the National Centre for Volunteering found that some organisations have addressed the barriers that face potential volunteers from these groups and secured their involvement through the adoption of practical measures and a real commitment to equality of opportunity.
Integrating user involvement and multi-agency working to improve housing for older people: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This study looked at problems of assessment, information provision and planning in the housing system for older people. It then involved stakeholders in designing improvements, focusing on the integration of user involvement and multi-agency working into an innovative planning and management system.