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Post-reform community care for elderly people: who gets how much of what service?
- Authors:
- DAVIES Bleddyn, FERNANDEZ Jose, WARBURTON Raymond
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 3(2), December 1996, pp.25-30.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Evaluates community care reforms in terms of services for older people and how well they are targeted. Looks at the issues relating to the effects on the services and the cost implications.
Decentralised budgeting and care for the elderly
- Authors:
- CHALLIS David, DAVIES Bleddyn
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 24p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
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Heineken and matching processes in the Thanet community care project: an empirical test of their relative importance
- Authors:
- DAVIES Bleddyn, MISSIAKOULIS Spyros
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 18(Supplement), 1988, pp.55-78.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
An analysis of the effect and interaction of different processes in the provision of care, aimed at improving psychological well-being and compensating for functional deficits.
Case management in community care: an evaluated experiment in the home care of the elderly
- Authors:
- CHALLIS David, DAVIES Bleddyn
- Publisher:
- Gower
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 289p., tables, diags., bibliog
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
A new approach to community care for the elderly
- Authors:
- CHALLIS David, DAVIES Bleddyn
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 10(1), 1980, pp.1-18.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Argues that only a limited number of service innovations can be introduced into an organisation at one time. Innovation in community care of the elderly is an urgent necessity, and the Kent Community Care Scheme is such an innovation.
Securing good care for older people: taking a long-term view
- Author:
- DAVIES Bleddyn
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing Horizons, 6, 2007, Online only
- Publisher:
- Oxford Institute of Ageing
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
The paper aims to explain and evaluate two key features of Securing Good Care for Older People, the Wanless Report on alternative mechanisms for funding long-term care of older people. The first is the new elements of the methodology for evaluating the alternatives. The paper argues that more successfully than previously and analyses in other countries, these elements focus attention on what are really the core issues: the means and ends which are the unique foci of long-term care, and estimates of the consequences of alternatives for them. By doing so, the report faces the politicians and policy analysis and research communities with a formidable challenge, to master and contribute to the development of the new framework and evidence. Failure to meet the challenge will increases the risk that the policy system will reinforce rather than weaken causes of gross inequity and inefficiency caused by the under-funding of long-term care seemingly unanswerably demonstrated by the report. The second key feature is the type of funding model the Report recommends given expected changes in the balance between demands and public expenditure. It is argued that the report’s analysis as successfully transforms the state of the argument about this as much as about the framework, methodology and evidence for evaluating alternatives, demonstrating the relative weakness of models widely advocated a decade ago. Part 2 discusses how to build on the Report. It discusses the framing of issues and the analysis of evidence for each of the key foci of the report’s main contribution to evaluation methodology. Finally the paper discusses whether the recommended model would be the wisest choice given the environment likely during the next few decades.
Public spending levels for social care of older people: why we must call in the debt
- Author:
- DAVIES Bleddyn
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 35(4), October 2007, pp.719-726.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
The author debates the funding of social care for older people.
Financing long-term social care: challenges for the nineties; paper for the Esmee Fairbairn workshop, Cambridge, September 1988
- Author:
- DAVIES Bleddyn
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 26p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Suggests ways of improving the mechanisms for financing long-term social care for old people.
Improving equity and efficiency in British community care
- Authors:
- DAVIES Bleddyn, KNAPP Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 28(3), September 1994, pp.263-285.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The reform of community and long-term care has been an important theme of policy development around the world during the last decade. British community care is a particularly interesting and impressive example of changes which have parallels in other countries. They include: achieving greater flexibility in the response to the needs and wishes of users and carers; containing costs increases and achieving greater cost-effectiveness; consolidation of structures; competition, variety and choice in a mixed economy; care management and assessment; clarity in targeting; improvement of mechanisms for orchestrating the system. Reviews the evidence on equity and efficiency in British community care: resources, needs and outcomes, and, in particular, targeting and the production of welfare.
Costs needs and outcomes in residential and community-based care of the elderly: towards the quantification of optimal targeting criteria: prepared for the conference "Les Institutions Sanitaires et Sociales Face au Vieillisement" ... September 1988
- Author:
- DAVIES Bleddyn
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 27p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Looks at costs and outcomes of community and residential services for the elderly.