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Older sisters
- Author:
- QUINN Maria
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 1.11.90, 1990, pp.19-20.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Pensioners' Link's Older Women's Project is a campaigning organisations which works with older women to bring change to their lives and to society.
You pays your money.
- Authors:
- VINCENT J., PHILLIPS D.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.6.88, 1988, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses the growth in private residential care, and ways in which residents could be given more choice and control over their lives.
Setting standards and enhancing choices
- Authors:
- JONES Pam, MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- MCC Building Knowledge for Integrated Care, 10(6), December 2002, pp.22-27.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Reports on the process of involving older people in one local authority in the construction of standards for residential care. It draws on data from questionnaires, focus groups and interviews. The findings suggest that involving a wide range of individuals in setting and reviewing local care standards is a necessity. A rationale for the exercise of individual choice emerged from the study, confirming that it is an important feature of acceptable residential care.
Citizenship, exclusion and older people
- Author:
- CRAIG Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 33(1), January 2004, pp.95-114.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
The article explores the findings of the qualitative element of a larger study which examined non-take-up of benefits among older people, focusing on those defined as 'hard to reach'. Interviews was undertaken in four areas of England using researchers able to interview in languages other than English. It explores the social, financial and other impacts of additional benefit income for older people, examines how the concepts of citizenship and social exclusion might be understood in relation to the position of older people and sketches out what some of the defining characteristics of citizenships might be for them.
National care standards: hospice care
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Outlines the national care standards for hospice care in Scotland. Contents: before using the support service, standards one to four; having confidence in your service, standards five to ten; getting the most out of life standards eleven to nineteen.
National care standards: care homes for older people
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 63p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Outlines the national care standards for care homes in Scotland. Contents: before using the support service, standards one to six; settling in, standards seven to eleven; day to day life, standards twelve to nineteen; moving on, standard twenty.
'My residential care needs for 2025'
- Author:
- SMITH Jef
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(1), September 1999, pp.25-27.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The author, general manager, Counsel and Care, looks forward a quarter of a century and speculates on the kind of facilities and rights he will demand in an age of rising expectations. Argues that the residential homes of tomorrow will have to look very different to that of today if his aspirations are to bet met.
Shaping futures - rights, welfare and personal social services
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL WORK
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Outlines how a two day conference with a group of service providers, policy advisers, users/carers, disabled people, academics and other commentators on the future of the Personal Social Services found agreement on the progress that had been made on involvement, as well as profound disagreement about the future.Discusses how significant work now needs to be addressed on agreeing a way forward.
The house detectives
- Authors:
- MIDGLEY Gerald, MUNLO Isaac, BROWN Mandy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.4.97, 1997, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The authors describe a successful experiment in identifying housing need and devising a strategy to address that need more effectively.
The fight-for-rights
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.7.96, 1996, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author writes that disabled people, elderly people with learning difficulties are all speaking out loudly to be heard.