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Living well in later life: from prevention to promotion
- Authors:
- WISTOW Gerald, WADDINGTON Eileen, GODFREY Mary
- Publisher:
- University of Leeds. Nuffield Institute for Health
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This report argues for a switch in emphasis from avoiding higher intensity and more costly care to promoting older people's quality of life and their engagement in the community.
Residential care: will social security still pay?
- Authors:
- WISTOW Gerald, HENWOOD Melanie
- Publisher:
- University of Leeds. Nuffield Institute for Health
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Involving older people in commissioning: more power to their elbow?
- Authors:
- WISTOW Gerald, WADDINGTON Eileen, DAVEY Vanessa
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 75p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This research set out to investigate what happens when older people are given the opportunity to shape service commissioning and delivery. The study also raises wider question of whether it can change the nature of local power relations in the long term. Dorset and Salford were identified as two areas where structures and processes exist which encourage and facilitate the involvement of older people in local decision-making. Through focus groups the research examined: how older people in these areas were involved in commissioning and service delivery; what difference their involvement made; the factors which lead to successful engagement; and the barriers to involving older people. Key findings revealed that public policy has made increasing reference to voice and choice for service users. Yet there were few examples where users have a real say in commissioning and more strategic approaches to service planning. Older people and agencies felt that their local involvement processes were worthwhile and associated with identifiable results. National focus groups were more sceptical about whether outcomes justified the time and resources involved. In conclusion, involvement should concentrate specifically on outcomes more than on processes.
Reducing emergency hospital stays for older people: Innovation Forum first year report
- Authors:
- WISTOW Gerald, KING Derek
- Publisher:
- Innovation Forum
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 54p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report from the Innovation Forum is based on the idea that good housing, a range of facilities for transport, leisure and entertainment, families and friends can all help older people thrive and stay healthy thereby reducing the need for emergency hospital stays. And, if any of this is to come about, it means a firmer strategy than currently exists to ensure there is a sufficiently significant transfer of funding from acute to community settings.
Active steps to prevention
- Authors:
- WISTOW Gerald, KING Derek
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.06.06, 2006, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The authors present early results from the first year of a local authority-led initiative, the Innovation Forum's older peoples project. The results suggest that a shift towards more preventative services is effective and is reducing older people's stays in hospital. The project was based on the idea that good housing, a range of facilities, and families and friends can help older people retain their independence.
Preventative services for older people: current approaches and future opportunities
- Authors:
- WISTOW Gerald, LEWIS Helen
- Publisher:
- Anchor Trust
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- Kidlington
Paper written as a background to a seminar on preventative services to older people. Outlines the issues and goes on to look at: what preventative services are; what obstacles to well being are faced by older people; what services there should be; what is currently available; what blockages there are preventing such services being available more widely; what is known about the effectiveness of such services; and key messages for policy makers.
Hospital discharge and community care: early days
- Authors:
- HENWOOD Melanie, WISTOW Gerald
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report based on a study of 6 English localities which were believed to have well advanced arrangements for the hospital discharge of older people. Provides a snapshot of the position around April 1993 when community care changes were starting to be implemented. Points up issues for continuing concern, as well as elements of good practice.
Commissioning care closer to home: final report
- Authors:
- WISTOW Gerald, WADDINGTON Eileen, KITT Iain
- Publisher:
- Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 60p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A project to promote better commissioning by social care and partner agencies of care closer to home for older people was commissioned in 2007. Seven local sites agreed to participate in the fieldwork: three focusing on the commissioning implications for adult social care, local authority and community sector partners of the shift from care in acute hospital settings (Blackpool, Islington and Sandwell), and four focusing on more effective commissioning arrangements for older people with mental health needs (Hampshire, Knowsley, Leeds and Oxfordshire). The key findings were that care closer to home is being interpreted and implemented in a variety of ways, that it is not clear whether it is seen as a specific objective of central government policy or a dimension of other policies, and that there is a corresponding lack of clarity about where ownership and accountability lie locally and nationally for its implementation and how its success will be measured. This report describes the overall findings from the project, including the commissioning framework designed for commissioning care closer to home, analyses the implications for the further development of care closer to home, and describes the work undertaken at the fieldwork sites.
Vision validated
- Authors:
- WISTOW Gerald, WISTOW Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.10.04, 2004, pp.44-45.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Summarises findings and conclusions from a survey of views about ministerial proposals for a new vision for social care. The survey was co-ordinated by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and found widespread support for the new vision. This was qualified by recognition that appropriate support and resources would be needed if the delivery of social care was to become person-centred, proactive and seamless.
Preventative services for older people and community care: findings from a joint policy seminar held on 17th September 1996; summary of the key messages and action proposals
- Authors:
- LEWIS Helen, WISTOW Gerald
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 8p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford