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Growing older together: the development and promotion of resident-led models of housing with care for older people: a programme of work being undertaken by the Housing LIN (Learning and Improvement Network)
- Author:
- HOUSING LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 5
- Place of publication:
- London
This practice briefing outlines the work being undertaken to capture examples of practice of resident-led housing for older people, building on the 2013 report ‘Growing older together: the case for housing that is shaped and controlled by older people’. This key area of work recognises that there is a need to increase the supply of housing suitable for older people and ensure that the offer of new housing options and choices prove attractive to a new generation of older people with changing priorities and higher expectations. The work programme will comprise several elements, including: an overall report, covering a broad range of examples; liaison with community-led housing organisations, older people’s representative forums/networks and other interested parties; and a spring conference for 2016. (Edited publisher abstract)
More power to our elders
- Authors:
- HOBMAN David, et al
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Papers from a series of conferences on empowering older people. These include: consumer choice; involving older people in community care planning; and power, older people and being cared for.
Case management and consumer choice: the community care scheme
- Author:
- CHALLIS David
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1985
- Pagination:
- 23p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Dignity in care
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Place of publication:
- London
This practical guide helps to define dignity in care, as well as how best to implement it. Care with dignity is a central part of quality in care work – it supports the self-respect of the person, recognising their capacities and ambitions, and does nothing to undermine it; and it values what they can do, who they are, and the life they have lived. The guide is aimed at care providers, managers and staff who work with adults – especially older adults. It defines the meaning of real everyday dignity to the lives of people receiving social care, their carers, families and friends, as well as the managers and staff who provide it. Topics discussed include: defining dignity; recognising the individual; skills and strengths; communication; freedom to choose; privacy; involvement and inclusion; warmth and kindness; a dignified life; and a dignified death. Throughout the guide, the links between dignity and key policy issues, including Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulations, are highlighted. (Edited publisher abstract)
Does educational inequality predict exercise of users' choice? Survey evidence from domiciliary care services among elderly in Oslo, Norway
- Authors:
- TRAETTEBERG Hakon S., FLADMOE Audun
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 54(7), 2020, pp.1123-1140.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The traditional goal of equality in services remains at the heart of the Scandinavian welfare model; however, in recent decades, policymakers have also placed increased emphasis on user influence over services. Voice and choice are two channels to achieve this goal. The possibility to give feedback and voicing dissatisfaction to service providers (voice) is a well‐established channel of service users' influence, however it is increasingly supplemented by user choice schemes (choice), where one can choose between different public and private service providers. We use the case of domiciliary care for the elderly to examine how the traditional goal of user equality is associated with the growing emphasis on user influence through voice and choice. The analyses are based on user surveys carried out by the municipality in the city of Oslo, which is arguably the only municipality in Norway where user choice plays a significant role in elderly care. Since the municipality subsidizes the private providers, individual economic resources should have less relevance. However, voicing dissatisfaction and choosing between different providers may anticipate cognitive resources that are not equally distributed among the users. The survey data indicate that there is an association between level of education and propensity to exploit all channels of user influence. Expanding user influence by introducing user choice thus confirms the differences between highly educated and less educated. (Edited publisher abstract)
The good life for older people
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.8.10, 2010, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Key findings of a study undertaken to examine the experiences and aspirations of older people living in residential and nursing homes are summarised. The research also explored the current and potential role of long-term care and investigated older people's experience of having a voice, making choices and being in control of their lives. The report found that residential care is generally a choice of last resort, with few older people actively choosing to live in a care home. Issues of voice, choice and control are frequently missing once they have entered a care home. The report also highlights what is needed to provide a good life for older people with high support needs. The research was part of the independent living programme of work at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Transitions to a care home - the importance of choice and control
- Authors:
- REED Jan, STANLEY David
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 7(4), December 2006, pp.12-17.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This article reports on a seminar organised as part of an ESRC-funded series on older people and care homes that focused on the period of transition into a care home and the experiences of older people immediately before and after they made the move. The papers presented suggest that there were ways in which older people could exercise choice and control over the process, but that problems existed, ranging from the ways in which assessment and referral systems were crisis or service led, to how people were supported after their move. This article outlines these arguments, and concludes that such processes need to be addressed if the quality of care at this difficult period is to be improved.
I'm still me: ...a narrative for coordinated support for older people
- Authors:
- REDDING Don, et al
- Publishers:
- UCLPartners, National Voices, Age UK
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 16
- Place of publication:
- London
The set of narrative statements published in this document describes the way older people want high quality coordinated care to support them. The document is based on interviews with 74 older people about what matters most to them in their lives and about the support and care they receive as well as focus groups and a literature review and is intended to be used as an extension to the Narrative for person centred coordinated care published by National Voices and Think Local Act Personal in May 2013. It outlines five themes that older people say are key to coordinated support: independence, community interactions, decision making, care and support and terminology. It also sets out a series of ‘I statements’ that summarise what older people have said that they want their support to look like. These include: “I can maintain social contact as much as I want”; “I am recognised for what I can do rather than assumptions being made about what I cannot”; “I am supported to be independent”. The document discusses implications for health and social care services and asks professionals, at all levels, to reflect on whether they are truly addressing the issues identified as being important to older people. It also calls for a national debate on the use of the word ‘frail’, which is often used to define groups of older people who could be vulnerable to a crisis but is emphatically rejected by older people themselves who do not want their lives to be defined by their health conditions. Health and social care services have the challenge of identifying people at risk of ‘frailty’ to ensure that they get the right support, but the report suggests that this needs to be in a way that is acceptable to the very population they are trying to support. (Edited publisher abstract)
Independent living strategy: a review of progress
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publishers:
- In Control, Disability Rights UK
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 25
- Place of publication:
- Wythall
This report summarises the findings of a review of evidence about the impact of the 2008 Independent Living Strategy and seeks to measure progress against some of the most important specific aims of the strategy. The review found that there is no evidence of significant progress in disabled people’s experiences of choice and control in their lives since 2008. Personal budgets for social care tend to improve outcomes but there is evidence that inadequate funding and restrictions on how personal budgets/direct payments may be used can inhibit choice and control. Disabled people who need support in their daily lives and older people are experiencing diminishing opportunities to participate in family and community life. People with high levels of support needs are at increasing risk of institutionalisation while access to mental health services is becoming more difficult. There have been significant reductions in advice and advocacy services, particularly those funded by legal aid. There is no evidence that current policies to support disabled people into work are improving employment opportunities and large numbers of disabled people have experienced a reduction in their household income since 2010. Disabled people are experiencing a reduction in housing opportunities and an increasing number are living in accommodation which is not suited to their needs and there have been significant reductions in expenditure on important programmes intended to increase transport opportunities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Piloting choice and control for older people: an evaluation
- Authors:
- CLARK Heather, SPAFFORD Jan
- Publisher:
- Policy Press/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 81p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Evaluation of a pilot scheme implemented by Portsmouth Social Services Department which aimed to find ways of increasing user choice and control in service delivery to older people. Describes the scheme with reference to the views of managers and users; informal carers and user empowerment; black and minority ethnic users; the views of provider organisations; and changing the culture of care management. Concludes by drawing out the broader lessons applicable to the extension of the Direct Payments scheme to older people.