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Growing older: an ESRC research programme
- Author:
- WALKER Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 3(1), March 2002, pp.4-12.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This article introduces the ESRC's Growing Older Programme and outlines some of the challenges it faces. The article opens with a introduction about the demographic pressures that overarch this programme and which were influential in its conception.
The ESRC growing older research programme
- Author:
- WALKER Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 1(2), April 2002, pp.129-38.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article serves three purposes. The first and main one is to introduce the ESRC's Growing Older Programme and its research agenda. Secondly, it outlines the four main challenges confronting the programme and its research teams: the methodological one concerning 'quality of life', the democratic one of participation, the challenge of communication and, ultimately, that of policy impact. Thirdly, the demographic and policy contexts that helped to create the Programme and to which it must respond are also discussed briefly.
The politics of old age in Europe
- Editors:
- WALKER Alan, NAEGELE Gerhard
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 238p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Collection of essays examining the new politics of old age from the perspective of individual countries and the European Union as a whole. Contains case studies from: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, Hungary and the USA. Each country study provides an overview of the politics of old age, including main developments, organisations, and actors. Goes on to give an account of recent national or local government developments to increase the participation of older people, analyses the barriers to participation and takes a forward look at the likely direction of policies.
Changing services for older people: the Neighbourhood Support Units innovation
- Authors:
- WALKER Alan, WARREN Lorna
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 196p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Presents findings from a research project evaluating the outcomes of the Neighbourhood Support Units innovation in Sheffield. Key issues raised include the goals to create more flexible tailor made services and the promotion of user and carer responsive forms of community care provision.