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The future of community care: a consumer perspective
- Authors:
- LEATHER Philip, SYKES Roger
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 37p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Report describing the findings from a MORI interview survey of 2000 people in Great Britain looking at a range of issues related to housing and care needs of older people. Focuses in particular on community care.
Constructing familiarity and managing the self: ways of adapting to life in nursing and residential homes for older people
- Authors:
- REED Jan, PAYTON Valerie Roskell
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 16(5), September 1996, pp.543-560.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Reports on the analysis of data collected in a study looking at older people moving into nursing and residential homes. The discussion focuses on two themes which have been identified from the data: constructing familiarity whereby participants use sometimes tenuous knowledge of people and places to make the home seem less strange, and managing the self, whereby familiarity is used as a means of permitting social conversation to take place without leaving residents open to the dangers of being intrusive. These two themes have relevance for the way in which new residents can be introduced to homes, and the way in which the social skills of older people are viewed.
Who should have a say? Developing a rationale for consultation with older persons in relation to commissioning plans
- Authors:
- WALDMAN Julia, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 6(3), September 1996, pp.6-8,11.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Explores issues in relation to older people as customers of health and social care provision arising from research work commissioned by Hampshire County Council's South East District Social Services Department and the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Health Authority, known as the HAPIS project, in Hampshire in 1995. The project looked at how older people wanted to be consulted in relation to commissioning arrangements, including those who were not already in receipt of community care services, and how that information could be collected.
Basic instincts
- Author:
- DOBSON Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.9.96, 1996, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on new research which debates whether older people in institutional care are happier and healthier if they have more control over their lives.
Listening to and involving older tenants: part 1
- Author:
- RISEBOROUGH Moyra
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 60p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- Kidlington
Part 1 of 2 complementary volumes focusing on tenant participation in sheltered housing. Part 1 contains qualitative and quantitative research with older people living in Anchor sheltered housing. Part 2 looks at good practice lessons for the future.
Consulting and involving older people with a visual impairment in the provision and development of personal social services
- Author:
- DAVIS Mark
- Publisher:
- Royal National Institute for the Blind
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of a research project examining how much progress has been made in consulting and involving older people with a visual impairment in community care services. Describes the current situation, highlights good practice, and offers guidance to planners, commissioners and providers of services.
Lifetime homes perception project: residents' perceptions of lifetime homes; a report for the Development Overview Group, Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust
- Author:
- BONNETT David
- Publisher:
- David Bonnett Architects
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 26p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research study examining the perceptions of over fifty households living in Lifetime Homes of the value occupants place on the concept in general, and on the design standards in particular.
Listening to and involving older tenants: part 2
- Author:
- RISEBOROUGH Moyra
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- Kidlington
Part 2 of a 2 part study focusing on tenant participation in sheltered housing. Part 1 is based on qualitative and quantitative research carried out with older people living in Anchor sheltered accommodation and part 2 looks at good practice lessons for the future.
Maintaining independence in later life: older people speaking
- Authors:
- LANGAN Joan, MEANS Robin, ROLFE Sue
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 35p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidlington
Policy makers are increasingly appreciating the importance of house and home to old people, and how this links to their desire to maintain their independence. This study makes a contribution to the debate via the views of older people themselves on the issues.
Care-receivers' perception of their role in the care process
- Authors:
- COX Enid Opal, DOOLEY Alberta Coy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 26(1/2), 1996, pp.133-152.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Elderly black, Hispanic and white care-receivers in the United States of America were interviewed in-depth regarding their role and their perceptions of the caregiving/care-receiving process. In-depth structured interviews were also conducted with caregivers. Respondents identified a number of common strategies used to assist their caregivers and/or provide self-care. The importance of education, mutual support between caregiver and care receiver, assumption of responsibility for acceptance of disabilities, and learning new ways of coping were identified as key factors in the care process. Describes the critical importance of care-receivers' roles in maintaining mental health, positive attitudes, and learning new patterns of behaviour in the care process and the importance of further exploration of care-receiver issues to social work practice is suggested.